WLY vs. WLYB, SCHL, ENR, THS, TR, TBBB, KLG, EPC, CCU, and MGPI
Should you be buying John Wiley & Sons stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of John Wiley & Sons include John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), Scholastic (SCHL), Energizer (ENR), TreeHouse Foods (THS), Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), BBB Foods (TBBB), WK Kellogg (KLG), Edgewell Personal Care (EPC), Compañía Cervecerías Unidas (CCU), and MGP Ingredients (MGPI). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
John Wiley & Sons (NYSE:WLYB) and John Wiley & Sons (NYSE:WLY) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.
John Wiley & Sons has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, John Wiley & Sons has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, John Wiley & Sons had 1 more articles in the media than John Wiley & Sons. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for John Wiley & Sons and 3 mentions for John Wiley & Sons. John Wiley & Sons' average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat John Wiley & Sons' score of 0.56 indicating that John Wiley & Sons is being referred to more favorably in the media.
0.5% of John Wiley & Sons shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.9% of John Wiley & Sons shares are held by institutional investors. 29.7% of John Wiley & Sons shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of John Wiley & Sons shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
John Wiley & Sons received 1 more outperform votes than John Wiley & Sons when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 20.00% of users gave John Wiley & Sons an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave John Wiley & Sons an outperform vote.
John Wiley & Sons is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than John Wiley & Sons, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
John Wiley & Sons pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. John Wiley & Sons pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. John Wiley & Sons pays out -48.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. John Wiley & Sons pays out -48.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. John Wiley & Sons has raised its dividend for 25 consecutive years and John Wiley & Sons has raised its dividend for 25 consecutive years. John Wiley & Sons is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
John Wiley & Sons beats John Wiley & Sons on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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