THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY 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 NYT and WLY diverge most: on revenue growth, NYT reads +10.8% and WLY reads -0.3%; on debt / equity, NYT reads 0.00 and WLY reads 1.62. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What NYT's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). 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 | NYT | WLY |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $66.31 | $49.65 |
| Market cap | $10.8B | $2.5B |
| Sector | Commercial Printing | Commercial Printing |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +14.4% | — |
| P/E | 27.6 | 13.4 |
| P/B | 5.28 | 3.16 |
| P/S | 3.63 | 1.51 |
| EV/EBITDA | 19.4 | 9.4 |
| Revenue growth | +10.8% | -0.3% |
| Operating margin | 15.5% | 0.8% |
| Net margin | 13.2% | 11.9% |
| Return on equity | 19.2% | 24.9% |
| Return on assets | 13.2% | 6.3% |
| Return on invested capital | 18.9% | 9.4% |
| FCF yield | 5.8% | 9.5% |
| Dividend yield | 1.1% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 1.62 |
| Current ratio | 1.58 | 0.64 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 8.53 | 1.85 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 3 / 9 |
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