GWOX
The Goodheart-Willcox Company, Inc. publishes print and digital textbooks. It also produces online courses and other instructional resources for middle school, high school, higher education, and profe...
Portfolio Positions Heading in to 2026
Goodheart-Willcox is a publisher of career, technical, health and physical education textbooks. It has a capital-light e-book division that is growing quickly. The business requires minimal capex and consistently throws off cash. In fiscal 2025, it generated $23M in free cash flow on a market cap of $193M (12% cash yield). The company has a history of distributing cash to shareholders through special dividends and tender offers. The stock is illiquid and obscure, which is why it's cheap.
Portfolio Positions Heading in to 2026
Goodheart-Willcox is a publisher of career, technical, health and physical education textbooks. Over the past decade it has been growing its capital light e-book division very quickly, so that now the business requires minimal capex and consistently throws off cash. In fiscal 2025, it generated $23M in free cash flow. On a market cap of $193M, that is a 12% cash yield. Historically it has distributed 45% of free cash flow as dividends while the rest of the cash builds up on the balance sheet. Occasionally once cash is too high they announce a special dividend (last in 2021) or tender offer (last tender was April 2019 at a 50% premium to the stock price).