NEWS CORPORATION vs JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC., two Commercial Printing stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where NWS and WLY diverge most: on implied growth (priced in), NWS reads +11.3% and WLY reads -2.3%; on revenue growth, NWS reads +4.3% and WLY reads -0.1%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's NWS price has a different growth bar priced in than WLY (+11.3% implied for NWS vs -2.3% for WLY); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What WLY's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | NWS | WLY |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $31.27 | $52.09 |
| Market cap | $17.4B | $2.7B |
| Sector | Commercial Printing | Commercial Printing |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +11.3% | -2.3% |
| P/E | 15.6 | 12.5 |
| P/B | 1.87 | 3.23 |
| P/S | 1.97 | 1.64 |
| EV/EBITDA | 43.0 | 8.0 |
| Revenue growth | +4.3% | -0.1% |
| Operating margin | — | 24.6% |
| Net margin | 12.9% | 13.2% |
| Return on equity | 12.3% | 26.1% |
| Return on assets | 7.3% | 8.6% |
| Return on invested capital | — | 14.2% |
| FCF yield | -3.0% | 7.6% |
| Dividend yield | 0.6% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.21 | 0.82 |
| Current ratio | 1.70 | 0.54 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 6.67 | 2.50 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 4 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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