John Wiley & Sons (JW-A):
John Wiley & Sons (JW-A) stock finished at $ 48.42 and recorded a 3.57% change in Friday negotiation session. The Company has maintained 45.09 million mobile shares and holds 58.68 million shares outstanding. The recent trading activity revealed that the share price fell 8.39% from its minimum of 52 weeks and traded with a variation of -32.52% compared to the maximum published in the last 52-week period.
The current ratio of 0.8 is mainly used to give an idea of a company's ability to repay its liabilities (debts and payables) with its assets (liquidity, marketable securities, inventory, receivables). As such, the current relationship can be used to make a rough estimate of a company's financial health. The quick ratio of 0.7 is a measure of a company's ability to meet its short-term financial liabilities with fast assets (cash and cash equivalents, short-term marketable securities and credits). The greater the relationship, the greater the financial security of a company in the short term. A common rule of thumb is that companies with a rapid ratio above 1.0 are sufficiently able to meet their short-term liabilities.
The long-term debt / equity shows a value of 0.46 with a total debt / equity of 0.46. It provides investors with the idea of the company's leverage, measured by dividing total liabilities from shareholders' equity. It also illustrates the debt that the company is using to finance its assets in relation to the value represented in equity.
The share price moved -14.89% from the maximum of 50 days and had a margin of 8.3% from the minimum of 50 days. Analyze the consensus score is 2.5. For the next one-year period, the average of the individual target price estimates reported by sell-side analysts is $ 64.
As has been a brief look at profitability, the company profit margin was 10.80% and the operating margin was 13.20%. The company maintained a gross margin of 72.90%. The corporate ownership of the company is 89.50% while the insider property is 0.40%. The company maintained its return on investment (ROI) at 14.00% compared to the previous 12 months and was able to maintain the return on capital invested (ROA) at 6.90% in the last twelve months. Return on equity (ROE) registered at 16.40%.
John Wiley & Sons (JW-A) The recent trading volume of the shares is equal to 730830 shares with respect to the average volume of 299.22 thousand shares. The relative volume observed at 2.44.
The volume can help determine the state of health of an existing trend. A healthy trend should have a greater volume on the ascending legs of the trend and a lower volume on the descending (corrective) legs. A healthy downtrend usually has a greater volume on the descending legs of the tendency and a lower volume on the ascending (corrective) legs.
The earnings per share of the company shows a growth of 70.00% for the current year and is expected to reach a growth of profits for the next year at 7.00%. The analyst predicted a growth of ESP for the next 5 years at 15.00%. The EPS growth rate of the company in the last five years was 6.80%. The rate of earnings growth for the next few years is an important measure for investors wishing to hold a stock for several years. The company's earnings usually have a direct relationship with the price of the company's shares. The stock recorded sales growth of 0.40% over the last 5 years. The quarter of EPS growth in the quarter was -27.20% and the quarter of sales growth in the quarter was -0.70%.
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John Wiley & Sons (JW-A) inventories fell below -1.19% compared to the 20-day moving average, showing a negative short-term movement in stocks. It fell -7.76% below the simple 50-day moving average. This is showing a pessimistic medium-term trend based on SMA 50. The share price has gone underground of -20.41% from its 200-day moving average which identifies the long-term downtrend.
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