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.
The New York Times runs a consumer-news subscription business; John Wiley publishes academic and professional content. Wiley earns the higher return, 26.13% on equity against the Times's 19.1%, on a similar margin near 13%, and trades far cheaper, 11.59 times earnings against the Times's 30.37, though at a lower book multiple, 2.99 against 5.79. This sets a digital-news publisher against an academic one: the Times commands a growth premium for its subscriber base, Wiley trades cheaply despite earning the higher return on its research-and-education franchise.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | NYT | WLY |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $74.97 | $50.12 |
| Market cap | $12.3B | $2.6B |
| Sector | Commercial Printing | Commercial Printing |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | — | +2.8% |
| P/E | 32.2 | 12.1 |
| P/B | 6.13 | 3.11 |
| P/S | 4.23 | 1.57 |
| EV/EBITDA | 25.0 | 7.8 |
| Revenue growth | +10.4% | -0.1% |
| Operating margin | 12.7% | 24.6% |
| Net margin | 13.2% | 13.2% |
| Return on equity | 19.1% | 26.1% |
| Return on assets | 13.4% | 8.6% |
| Return on invested capital | 20.7% | 14.2% |
| FCF yield | 4.4% | 7.9% |
| Dividend yield | 1.0% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.82 |
| Current ratio | 1.60 | 0.54 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 8.54 | 2.47 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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