John Wiley & Sons(US:WLY)2025-12-04 15:00Financial Performance - Adjusted revenue decreased by 1% to $422 million, but excluding divestitures and foreign exchange impacts, the decrease was driven by an 11% decline in Learning, offset by 5% growth in Research [38, 41] - Adjusted EPS increased by 12% to $1.10, driven by a 14% increase in Adjusted Operating Income [38, 41] - Adjusted EBITDA increased by 8% to $115 million, with the Adjusted EBITDA margin up 240 basis points to 273% [38, 41] Segment Performance - Research revenue increased by 5%, with Research Publishing up 7% and Research Solutions down 5% [41, 14, 42] - Learning revenue decreased by 11%, with Academic down 8% and Professional down 16% [41, 45] AI Initiatives - Secured a $6 million LLM training licensing agreement in Q2, bringing year-to-date AI revenue to $35 million [14] - Launched the AI Gateway, a content enrichment and distribution platform, and have over 30 publisher partners for the Nexus content licensing service [8, 14, 25] Operational Efficiency and Capital Allocation - Corporate expenses reduced by 18% in Q2 [8, 14, 52] - Share repurchases increased by 69% to $21 million in Q2, with a total of $73 million returned to shareholders YTD through dividends and repurchases [8, 54] Outlook - The company is on track to deliver full year Free Cash Flow outlook of $200M [56]