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Should you be buying John Wiley & Sons stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of John Wiley & Sons include Pearson (PSO), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), Scholastic (SCHL), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), New York Times (NYT), Coty (COTY), Aramark (ARMK), and Ingredion (INGR).
Pearson (NYSE:PSO) and John Wiley & Sons (NYSE:WLYB) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations and earnings.
In the previous week, Pearson and Pearson both had 6 articles in the media. Pearson's average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat John Wiley & Sons' score of -0.02 indicating that John Wiley & Sons is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pearson has a beta of 0.4, meaning that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, John Wiley & Sons has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Pearson received 403 more outperform votes than John Wiley & Sons when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 48.26% of users gave Pearson an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave John Wiley & Sons an outperform vote.
Pearson has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Pearson's net margin of -10.69%. Pearson's return on equity of 18.82% beat John Wiley & Sons' return on equity.
Pearson has higher revenue and earnings than John Wiley & Sons.
2.1% of Pearson shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.5% of John Wiley & Sons shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Pearson shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 29.7% of John Wiley & Sons shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Pearson pays an annual dividend of $0.39 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. John Wiley & Sons pays an annual dividend of $1.41 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. John Wiley & Sons pays out -38.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. John Wiley & Sons has raised its dividend for 26 consecutive years. John Wiley & Sons is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Pearson presently has a consensus price target of $12.30, suggesting a potential downside of 8.48%. Given John Wiley & Sons' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Pearson is more favorable than John Wiley & Sons.
Summary
Pearson and John Wiley & Sons tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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