Wolters' nine-month organic growth accelerated to 6% from 5% in the first half, due to better nonrecurring revenue. Artificial intelligence adoption progressed, although growth slowed in key AI-exposed businesses despite strong uptake. Full-year guidance was kept. Shares were flat intraday on Nov 4.
The shift to focusing on expert solutions (software and information analytics) has boosted Wolters Kluwer's organic growth profile.
The company lacks scale and expert solutions in its legal and regulatory segment, leading to structurally lower margins compared with the rest of the legacy segments.
Metric | WKL | CLVT | RELX |
|---|---|---|---|
Price/Earnings (Normalized) | 17.11 | 3.09 | 22.75 |
Price/Book Value | 21.00 | 0.33 | 42.77 |
Price/Sales | 3.29 | 0.71 | 5.57 |
Price/Cash Flow | 13.13 | 2.31 | 18.46 |
Metric | WKL | CLVT | RELX |
|---|---|---|---|
Quick Ratio | 0.67 | 0.72 | 0.39 |
Current Ratio | 0.69 | 0.88 | 0.45 |
Interest Coverage | 16.57 | 0.56 | 19.30 |
Metric | WKL | CLVT | RELX |
|---|---|---|---|
Return on Assets (Normalized) | 12.49% | 4.70% | 16.40% |
Return on Equity (Normalized) | 140.69% | 10.77% | 125.10% |
Return on Invested Capital (Normalized) | 21.71% | 8.32% | 25.69% |
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