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10. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE:WLY)

Ex-Dividend Date: October 7

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE:WLY) is a publisher and licensor of professional and research journals, online learning environments, and education products. It makes the majority of its revenues today from digital and online products, which represented 83% of Adjusted Revenue in FY2025, much of which was fueled by subscription and institution affiliations.

Over the past few years, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE:WLY) has focused on advancing its digital drive, enabling recurring revenue streams, and international partnership growth. Its prime goals are to sustain a high level of revenue from digital and recurring models, maintain close ties with professional societies in journal material, grow in new markets globally, and capitalize on high growth in open access and AI-related publishing.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE:WLY) is paying a current quarterly dividend of $0.355 a share and has increased it by 0.7% this June. It was the 32nd year in a row that the company increased its dividend. Dividend yield is 3.56%, as of September 27.