John Wiley & Sons Inc (NYSE:WLY) does about 411.32K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1703578 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 2.19B USD. Its current market price is $40.72, marking an increase of 9.96% compared to the previous close of $37.03. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $53.96 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $36.50.
The consensus objective for the share price is $60.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 32.13% over the period.
FactSet Research has provided data showing that 1 brokerages have issued ratings for the stock. 0 analysts have rated it as a sell, while 0 advise that it is a overweight. 1 analysts have rated it as a buy and 0 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Buy and Wall Street’s advice is for investors to Strong Buy the stock.
The current price level is 3.29%, -2.31%, and -9.03% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the WLY price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. John Wiley & Sons Inc (WLY) stock is up 3.48% over the week and -7.29% over the past month. Its price is -6.84% year-to-date and -0.44% over the past year.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 32.13 percent from here.
The company has a return on investment of 5.19% and return on equity of 11.28%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 26.51 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 9.70. The beta has a value of 0.88. Price to book ratio is 3.20 and price to sales ratio is 1.30.
