John Wiley and Sons A (NYSE:JW-A)

JPresbrown (87.75) Submitted: 2/25/2013 3:34:38 PM : Start Price: $37.55 JW-A Score: -5.45

Very tightly controlled by insiders and with a high short interest this company publishes a variety of scientific, technical, medical and scholarly journals as well as reference books and database services. The company is selling at a very reasonable 12x earnings and 15X free cash flow with a PEG ratio of 1.4. They have a solid history of dividend growth and with a payout ratio of less than 40% there's plenty of room for increases.

JohnCLeven (83.64) Submitted: 12/19/2012 11:24:44 AM : Start Price: $37.07 JW-A Score: -7.83

Recent selloff is overdone. We have here a great publisher w/ a history of wonderful brands including (For Dummies, Frommers (recently sold to google I think), Webster's Dictionary, Cliffnotes, Betty Crocker cookbooks, and a ton of academic and professional journals, textbooks, and *online* training materials.

Over the past decade, Wiley has has steady growth, averaged ROE between 30-40%, averaged ROC between 17-24%.

The company is now selling at 7.3x free cash flow, and has 2.5% dividend yield on top of that.

That's just too cheap!

EatsNoCheese (47.21) Submitted: 11/7/2010 2:49:46 PM : Start Price: $41.62 JW-A Score: -40.73

I'm a doctoral student and use Wiley services (online journals, etc.) all the time. Their variety of print and online publications give them a solid moat against competition and their products are necessary to a number of sectors (e.g., education, psychology) in good times and bad. Great dividend is a bonus.

polley11 (68.13) Submitted: 9/27/2010 4:57:24 PM : Start Price: $38.79 JW-A Score: -43.19

Many schools going to online books and homework, wiley can only profit from this. There's only going to be more and more schools using this technology. GREAT long term play!!!!

MizzouFanVan (89.70) Submitted: 5/13/2010 2:27:41 PM : Start Price: $40.13 JW-A Score: -43.28

Stock screen - mid cap, 5 start CAPS, 5% + Ownership, P/E under 20

L7guitar (65.87) Submitted: 6/28/2009 12:38:33 PM : Start Price: $31.32 JW-A Score: -54.91

books

tspeyer (45.37) Submitted: 11/7/2008 3:49:50 PM : Start Price: $31.92 JW-A Score: -60.12

A superbly-run company where family control provides the benefit of being able to take the long view. America's oldest independent publishing company.

Acquisition and integration of Blackwell complete and successful.

681CADILLACMAN (< 20) Submitted: 4/17/2008 5:48:05 PM : Start Price: $41.86 JW-A Score: -29.92

DONT NEED ONE

anylawn (37.33) Submitted: 10/2/2007 9:39:44 AM : Start Price: $41.36 JW-A Score: -17.14

Forbes Maker+Breakers

flampe (48.53) Submitted: 2/24/2007 9:09:29 AM : Start Price: $36.24 JW-A Score: -11.90

Hold for dividend income, not price appreciation. Long term 10 year performance has been 300%