THOMSON REUTERS 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 TRI and WLY diverge most: on revenue growth, TRI reads +4.2% and WLY reads -0.3%; on operating margin, TRI reads 28.5% and WLY reads 0.8%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. 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 | TRI | WLY |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $103.20 | $49.65 |
| Market cap | $46.3B | $2.5B |
| Sector | Commercial Printing | Commercial Printing |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +11.6% | — |
| P/E | 30.9 | 13.4 |
| P/B | 3.89 | 3.16 |
| P/S | 6.20 | 1.51 |
| EV/EBITDA | 16.2 | 9.4 |
| Revenue growth | +4.2% | -0.3% |
| Operating margin | 28.5% | 0.8% |
| Net margin | 20.1% | 11.9% |
| Return on equity | 12.6% | 24.9% |
| Return on assets | 8.4% | 6.3% |
| Return on invested capital | 12.0% | 9.4% |
| FCF yield | 4.3% | 9.5% |
| Debt / equity | 0.18 | 1.62 |
| Current ratio | 0.64 | 0.64 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 6.06 | 1.85 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 3 / 9 |
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