HIGHBuilt-inProduct / Revenue mix
64%
Research segment
“10-K Item 1: 'Research revenue accounted for approximately 64% of our consolidated revenue in the year ended April 30, 2025'”
WLYB · Concentration risk · 10-K extracted
John Wiley & Sons (WLYB) concentration risks
Updated
The most significant concentration John Wiley & Sons discloses is Research segment at 64%, classified HIGH by disclosed size. Below: the full set from the latest 10-K — verbatim quotes, filing references, and a synthesis of what these exposures mean together.
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Source: John Wiley & Sons’s SEC Form 10-K filed — view the filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
At a glance
Disclosed-size breakdown · 4 disclosed concentrations
HIGH1
MEDIUM3
LOW0
Disclosed concentrations
Each card carries a disclosed-size chip (HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW — how large the exposure is as a share of revenue, not how dangerous it is) and a nature tag: Built-in(the company’s own model, geography, or products) or Outside party (an external customer, supplier, or distributor it relies on).
MEDIUMBuilt-inGeographic
49%
revenue from outside the US
“10-K Item 1: 'approximately 49% of our consolidated revenue was from outside the US'”
MEDIUMOutside partySupplier
46%
professional society-owned journals
“10-K Item 1: 'Approximately 46% of Journal Subscriptions revenue is derived from publication rights that are owned by professional societies and other publishing partners'”
MEDIUMBuilt-inProduct / Revenue mix
35%
Learning segment
“10-K Item 1: 'Learning accounted for approximately 35% of our consolidated revenue in the year ended April 30, 2025'”
TrendMatrix Research · concentration synthesis
What these concentrations mean together
updated 2026-08-09John Wiley & Sons' revenue mix, as disclosed for its WLYB shares, is anchored by one dominant segment alongside two comparably sized secondary exposures. Research revenue accounted for approximately 64% of consolidated revenue in the year ended April 30, 2025, a high-share structural exposure and clearly the largest single driver of results. Learning accounted for approximately 35% of consolidated revenue in the same period, a medium-share structural exposure that, together with Research, describes how the business's revenue is split between its two named segments. Geographically, approximately 49% of consolidated revenue was generated from outside the U.S., another medium-share structural exposure showing a substantially international, though not majority-international, footprint. Within Research specifically, approximately 46% of Journal Subscriptions revenue is derived from publication rights owned by professional society-owned journals, a medium-share dependency — the one exposure here tied to specific counterparties rather than segment or geographic mix, since renegotiation or loss of these publishing partnerships would directly affect subscription revenue. Netting these out, the Research segment's high share sets the overall trajectory, while the Learning segment, international mix, and publishing-partner dependency are all medium-share factors of broadly similar scale layered underneath it.
For the engine’s reasoning on WLYB’s current verdict — including which dimensions drove the score — see the per-dimension breakdown.
Industry peers · Publishing
Peer concentration profile
| Symbol | Name | HIGH | MEDIUM | LOW | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WLYB● | John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| WLY | John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| TDAY | USA TODAY Co., Inc. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| NYT | New York Times Company (The) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| SCHL | Scholastic Corporation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Concentration counts reflect items disclosed in each peer’s most recent 10-K; disclosed-size classification uses TrendMatrix’s internal 10-K extraction taxonomy.