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Profile - John Wiley & Sons (NYSE:JWa)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Sep  4Earnings Announcement
Location
605 Third Ave.
New York, NY 10158
Phone: (212) 850-6000
Fax: (212) 850-6088
Email: info@wiley.com
Employees (last reported count): 2,600
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 ·Sector: Services
 ·Industry: Printing & Publishing
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 50%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · one insider buy; 4,000  shares
 · 5 insider sells; 59.0K shares
  (0.2% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 54% (108% of float)
(163 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 638.0K shares (+1.92%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. is a global publisher of print and electronic products, specializing in scientific, technical and medical journals and books; professional and consumer books and subscription services; and textbooks and educational materials for undergraduate and graduate students as well as lifelong learners. The Company's publications are sold throughout most of the world through subsidiaries located in Europe, Canada, Australia, and Asia, through agents, and directly from the United States. The Company publishes, or licenses others to publish, its products, which are distributed throughout the world in 43 foreign languages.
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Financial Summary
John Wiley and Sons, Inc. is a publisher of print and electronic products, specializing in scientific, technical, professional, medical books and journals and educational materials. For the fiscal year ended 4/30/01, revenues increased 1% to $613.8 million. Net income rose 12% to $58.9 million. Revenues reflect strong results in Professional/Trade and College. Earnings also reflect lower relative composition costs as a result of productivity improvements.
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Officers
FY2001 Compensation
PayExer

Bradford Wiley, II, 60
Chairman
--  --  
William Pesce, 50
Pres and Chief Exec. Officer
$1.7M$312K
Ellis Cousens, 49
COO, Chief Financial Officer, Exec. VP
--  --  
Stephen Kippur, 54
Exec. VP and Pres- Professional and Trade Publishing Division
540K1.1M
Peter Clifford, 55
Sr. VP- Fin., Corp. Controller and Chief Accounting Officer
--  --  
Dollar amounts are as of 30-Apr-2001 and compensation values are for the fiscal year ending on that date; "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc.; "Exer" is the value of options excercised during the fiscal year.
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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:JWaAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 24-Apr-2001
$17.90 
Recent Price$20.15 
52-Week High
on 2-July-2001
$23.89 
Beta0.34 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)42.6K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)30.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+0.8%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+35.2%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$1.22B
Shares Outstanding60.8M
Float30.2M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend (indicated)$0.18 
Dividend Yield0.89%
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 1-June-1999
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$3.62 
Earnings (ttm)$0.93 
Earnings (mrq)$0.13 
Sales (ttm)$9.70 
Cash (mrq)$0.87 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)5.56 
Price/Earnings (ttm)21.64 
Price/Sales (ttm)2.08 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$613.8M
EBITDA (ttm)$112.9M
Income available to common (ttm)$58.9M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)9.6%
Operating Margin (ttm)15.5%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsApr 30
Most recent quarter30-Apr-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)10.07%
Return on Equity (ttm)29.55%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)0.77 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.43 
Total Cash (mrq)$52.9M
Short Interest
Shares ShortN/A 
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   B = billions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 30-Apr-2001)

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