WLY — what changed in the latest 10-K
A section-by-section comparison of WLY's newest periodic SEC filing (10-K/10-Q) against the prior same-form filing: paragraphs added and removed per section, with verbatim excerpts. Purely a deterministic text diff — no similarity scores, no directional read, not investment advice.
Comparing 10-K · 2026-06-24 vs the prior 10-K · 2025-06-25
| Section | Outcome | Added | Removed | Minor | Unchanged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business | Text added/removed | +15 | −25 | ~18 | 25 |
| Risk factors | Text added/removed | +10 | −9 | ~22 | 78 |
| Legal proceedings | No paragraph-level changes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MD&A | Text added/removed | +63 | −85 | ~34 | 57 |
| Market risk (Item 7A) | Text added/removed | 0 | 0 | ~8 | 2 |
Counts are paragraphs; added/removed means text added or removed vs the prior filing — no direction or judgement implied.
Representative excerpts
Up to 5 excerpts of about 300 characters per section, quoted verbatim from the two SEC filings.
Business
Text added vs the prior filing · source: 10-K · 2026-06-24
Wiley is a global leader in authoritative content and research intelligence for the advancement of scientific discovery, innovation, and learning. The Company’s content, services, platforms, and knowledge networks are tailored to meet the evolving needs of its customers and partners, including insti…
Under the Open Access business model, accepted research articles once published are immediately free to access online. Open Access offers authors choices in how to share and disseminate their work, and it serves the needs of researchers who may be required by their research funder to make articles f…
We also provide platform and workflow solutions for societies and publishers, including production and content hosting, submissions and peer review support, and editorial and copy editing services. Atypon® is a publishing platform that hosts content on behalf of approximately 2,000 publishers and so…
Research Exchange (ReX) is Wiley's proprietary end-to-end manuscript submission and peer review platform, designed to streamline the publishing workflow for authors, editors, and reviewers. The platform leverages AI to automate metadata extraction at submission, identify potential integrity issues p…
Book content is available online through Wiley Online Library, WileyPLUSTM, zyBooks®, alta®™, and other proprietary platforms. Digital books are delivered to intermediaries and aggregators, including Amazon, Apple, and Google, for sale to individuals, libraries, or distinct communities in various in…
Text removed vs the prior filing · source: 10-K · 2025-06-25
Wiley is one of the world’s largest publishers and a global leader in research and learning. The Company's content, services, platforms, and knowledge networks are tailored to meet the evolving needs of its customers and partners, including researchers, students, instructors, professionals, institut…
Under the Open Access business model, accepted research articles are published subject to upfront payment of article publication charges (APCs) and then all open articles are immediately free to access online. Contributors of open access articles retain many rights and typically license their work u…
Open Access offers authors choices in how to share and disseminate their work, and it serves the needs of researchers who may be required by their research funder to make articles freely accessible without embargo. APCs are typically paid by the individual author or by the author’s funder, and payme…
We also provide platform and workflow solutions for societies and publishers, including production and content hosting, submissions and peer review support, and editorial and copy editing services. The Atypon® publishing platform for societies and publishers delivers integrated access to more than 1…
Book content is available online through Wiley Online Library, WileyPLUSTM, zyBooks®, alta®™, and other proprietary platforms. Digital books are delivered to intermediaries, including Amazon, Apple, and Google, for sale to individuals in various industry-standard formats. Digital books are also lice…
Risk factors
Text added vs the prior filing · source: 10-K · 2026-06-24
Regulations related to AI Technologies may also impose on us certain obligations and costs related to monitoring and compliance. In the US, multiple federal agencies, including the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the Equal Employment…
Our operations and revenue are partially dependent on funding for research and spending by publicly funded institutions, including public libraries, colleges, and universities. Federally supported research has faced disruption through a combination of proposed budget reductions, administrative actio…
Wiley is a global business and enjoys healthy geographic revenue distribution and funding diversity worldwide. The current funding environment remains fluid, with ongoing legal challenges, congressional appropriations debates, and administrative actions that continue to evolve. We cannot predict the…
Disruptions in credit markets or to our banking partners may negatively affect our access to credit or overall liquidity. We maintain levels of debt that we consider prudent based on our cash flows, interest coverage ratio and ratio of net debt to EBITDA. A disruption in the credit markets could inc…
We continue to believe that we can meet our financing needs for the foreseeable future. We typically generate significant operating cash flow from ongoing operations, continue to maintain available cash and other financial assets, retain access to the capital markets, and have available committed li…
Text removed vs the prior filing · source: 10-K · 2025-06-25
Regulations related to AI Technologies may also impose on us certain obligations and costs related to monitoring and compliance. For example, in April 2023, the Federal Trade Commission, US Department of Justice, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission re…
Our operations and revenue are partially dependent on funding for research and spending by publicly funded institutions, including public libraries, colleges, and universities. The current US administration has recently proposed reductions in US federal funding for the National Institute of Health a…
Wiley is a global business and enjoys healthy geographic revenue distribution and funding diversity worldwide, but any material and sustained decrease in US public funding for research and education could adversely affect our results of operations over time. We cannot predict the extent to which fut…
Changes in global financial markets have not had, nor do we anticipate they will have, a significant impact on our liquidity. We continue to believe that we have the ability to meet our financing needs for the foreseeable future. We typically generate significant operating cash flow from ongoing ope…
Changes in pension costs and related funding requirements may impact our consolidated financial position and results of operations.
MD&A
Text added vs the prior filing · source: 10-K · 2026-06-24
Wiley also reported a Held for Sale or Sold segment in the years ended April 30, 2025 and 2024, which primarily included non-core businesses which were classified as held-for-sale until the date of sale, as well as other businesses which were sold. Through the Research segment, we provide peer-revie…
Wiley’s business strategies are tightly aligned with consistent long-term growth trends, including (1) ever-increasing global R&D investment and researcher productivity gains from AI, leading to growth in scientific research output and the number of institutions and researchers worldwide, and (2) th…
On June 1, 2026, subsequent to the end of fiscal year 2026, we acquired Emerald Publishing for £337.5 million (approximately $452 million), funded with available cash and proceeds from our revolving credit facility. Emerald Publishing is a research publisher headquartered in Leeds, England, with a p…
AI license revenue was $49.1 million in the year ended April 30, 2026 compared to $40 million in the prior year. The AI license revenue in the year ended April 30, 2026 includes $19.4 million of revenue related to content which Wiley has licensed from other publishers. The period to period comparabi…
Cost of sales for the year ended April 30, 2026, of $431.5 million, increased $0.1 million, and was consistent with the prior year. On a constant currency basis, cost of sales decreased 1% as compared with the prior year. This was primarily due to lower inventory costs primarily in Learning and, to …
Text removed vs the prior filing · source: 10-K · 2025-06-25
Wiley also reports a Held for Sale or Sold segment, which primarily includes non-core businesses which were classified as held-for-sale until the date of sale, as well other businesses which were sold as described further below.
Through the Research segment, we provide peer-reviewed scientific, technical, and medical (STM) journals, content platforms, and related publishing and audience solutions to academic, corporate, and government customers, academic societies, and individual researchers. The Learning segment provides s…
Wiley’s business strategies are tightly aligned with consistent long-term growth trends, including ever-increasing global R&D investment, leading to growth in scientific research output and the number of institutions and researchers worldwide. These strategies include expanding our publishing progra…
Our Adjusted Revenue net excludes the impact of our Held for Sale or Sold segment revenue.
Cost of sales for the year ended April 30, 2025, of $431.4 million, decreased $148.3 million, or 26% as compared with the prior year. On a constant currency basis, cost of sales decreased 26% as compared with the prior year primarily due to the prior year including employee and marketing costs relat…
How to read Risk Factors (Item 1A) in a 10-Q
A 10-Q risk-factor section usually takes one of three forms; this page classifies it as one of:
- Pointer — the filer states there have been no material changes and points back to the annual 10-K risk factors; there is no own risk text to compare this quarter.
- Partial update — the filer carves out specific updated risks ("except as set forth below"); the excerpts show exactly what is new this quarter.
- Restated in full — the quarter carries the complete risk-factor text. When the prior quarter was only a pointer there is no prior full text to diff against, so the page flags the section as restated instead.
This describes the filing structure only — it is never a judgement on whether risk went up or down.
Source: text-level diff of the two SEC EDGAR filings · deterministic (no AI-generated content) · for reference only · not investment advice