With a market capitalization (market cap) of $2.6B — a measure of how much the company is worth — John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ranks #1,841 among the 2,493 companies tracked, and 80th in Communication Services as of October 11, 2026. Shares trade at $49.64, up 0.49% on the day.
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Market-cap change uses historical capitalization records. Share-price returns are a different series — they can diverge when the share count changes. Those returns are not a CAGR until you pick a start value, an ending value, and years. CAGR calculator. Market cap vs. stock price.
Year-end values and the chart both come from historical market-cap records, not from applying today's share count to past prices. Latest historical observation October 9, 2026. Ranking headline cap is the snapshot figure as of October 11, 2026.
| Year | As of | Market cap | Annual change | Year-end close |
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| 2026 | Oct 9, 2026 | $2.52B | +57.43% | $49.64 |
| 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $1.6B | -31.42% | $30.63 |
| 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $2.33B | +34.12% | $43.71 |
| 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $1.74B | -21.61% | $31.74 |
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Ranking figure $2.6B as of October 11, 2026.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.'s ranking market cap is the provider-reported capitalization on the same snapshot as the rest of this site, with a share price of $49.64 as of October 9, 2026. Charts and the year-end table use a separate historical market-cap series, last observed at $2.52B on October 9, 2026. See how the ranking works.
Live shares outstanding are not on the quote used for price, so this page does not invent a current share count. Shares outstanding vs. float.
The latest annual report (FY 2026) used a weighted-average 52,466,000 shares. That figure is an average for the year, not the live count in the market-cap formula.
Multiple share classes of this company are combined on the ranking so it is counted once. Dual-class shares and market cap.
Book equity: assets minus liabilities on the latest annual report.
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| #3 | Alphabet Inc. GOOG | $4.22T | +0.87% |
| #8 | Meta Platforms, Inc. META | $1.83T | -0.31% |
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc., a publisher, provides authoritative content, data-driven insights, and knowledge services for the advancement of science, innovation, and learning in the United States, China, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, and internationally. The company’s Research segment provides scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals, as well as related content and services in the areas of physical sciences and engineering, health sciences, social sciences, and humanities, and life sciences.
Summary from the company profile (Financial Modeling Prep). Principal financial figures above are for FY 2026.
Visit websiteAs of October 11, 2026, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (WLY) is worth $2.6B — that is its market capitalization, the total value of its outstanding shares on MarketCapLens.
A company’s net worth is its shareholders’ equity: assets minus liabilities on the balance sheet. That is book equity, not market cap. For FY 2026, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.’s book equity is about $848.24M. Market cap is the market value of the outstanding shares. As of October 11, 2026, its market cap is $2.6B. Book equity is an accounting remainder; market cap is a trading value. Neither is a person’s net worth.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ranks #1,841 among the 2,493 companies tracked on MarketCapLens. In Communication Services it ranks #80 of 97.
Fundamentals are annual. Figures labeled with their fiscal year. Live ratios use the current price against those annual earnings.
Over the past year, market cap and share price moved by different amounts. Share count can change independently of price. What changes market cap.
| Dec 30, 2022 |
| $2.22B |
| -30.43% |
| $40.06 |
| 2021 | Dec 31, 2021 | $3.19B | — | $57.27 |
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| #79 | The Walt Disney Company DIS | $187.63B | +0.96% |
| #84 | Verizon Communications Inc. VZ | $173.91B | -8.75% |
| #99 | T-Mobile US, Inc. TMUS | $159.38B | -13.27% |
Companies immediately above and below in the overall ranking. They may be in a different sector.
| Rank | Company | Market cap | 1D |
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| #1838 | Ardagh Metal Packaging S.A. AMBP | $2.63B | -1.35% |
| #1839 | Privia Health Group, Inc. PRVA | $2.63B | +3.27% |
| #1840 | Guardian Pharmacy Services, Inc. GRDN | $2.61B | -0.77% |
| #1842 | NBT Bancorp Inc. NBTB | $2.6B | -0.93% |
| #1843 | Allied Gold Corporation AAUC | $2.6B | +4.74% |
| #1844 | Resideo Technologies, Inc. REZI | $2.59B | -0.73% |
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.’s ranking market cap of $2.6B comes from the same snapshot as the rest of this site, as of October 11, 2026. It is not share price multiplied by the FY 2026 weighted-average share count of 52,466,000. The historical market-cap series last observed $2.52B on October 9, 2026.
Over the past year, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.’s market cap is up 31.09%, using historical market-cap records rather than today’s share count applied to past prices.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (WLY) shares trade at $49.64, up 0.49% on the day, as of October 11, 2026.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. trades at a live price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 11.8, using the latest share price divided by the latest annual earnings per share. That is not the same as a fiscal-year reported P/E.