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Company snapshot — Wolters Kluwers Nv

WOSB.DE in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Wolters Kluwer supplies information and software to professionals across health, tax and accounting, financial and corporate compliance, legal and regulatory, and corporate performance and ESG work. Customers range from hospitals and law firms to tax practices, corporations and government bodies. Parts of its health and tax software now carry generative and agentic AI features layered onto existing workflows. It is based in Alphen aan den Rijn, in the Netherlands, and trades in Germany through Xetra.
Where it sits in the stack
Wolters Kluwer holds no seat in our indices and sits outside the Rubin build-out stack. The diary tracks it within the wider Industrials sector, under specialty business services, as a professional-software name rather than a supplier into chips, testing or data-centre infrastructure.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group here is drawn from scored Industrials names sharing its German listing — Nordex, Rheinmetall, Andritz, Hensoldt, Traton and Kion Group. A wider market comparison would add Thomson Reuters, another information-services provider serving professional and legal customers.
Why Closelook tracks it
It carries a Closelook score without any index seat; capital allocation reads as its strongest module, while momentum reads weakest among the scored measures. It has not drawn any diary quotes or mentions to date.
What the diary watches
Whether the weak momentum reading shifts once the stock stops trading down sessions in a row and narrows its distance from the 52-week high.

Wolters Kluwers Nv (WOSB.DE) trades on the XETRA exchange in Germany, classified under Industrials.

The Closelook company score reads 59/100 composite (momentum 44, quality 85, valuation 66) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for WOSB.DE, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Specialty Business Services · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Specialty Business Services

Names in the same industry from the Closelook universe; scored names rank on their Closelook score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against WOSB.DE on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 3.81%, semi-annual · buybacks 1.10 bn EUR in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What WOSB.DE pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 2.60 EUR per share · a 3.81% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 2 distributions, paid twice a year 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +7.0% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 2.43 EUR per share
  • Last distribution 1.01 EUR per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-01
  • By calendar year 2025: 2.43 EUR (partial) · 2026: 2.60 EUR to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-05-19
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 563 m EUR 43% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 1.10 bn EUR 7.2% of today's market value
  • Share count −3.5% in FY2025 26 m EUR of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 1.66 bn EUR · 122% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sector × region Industrials in Europe: −0.4% week · −3.5% month · +0.1% quarter · +2.4% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from EXH4.XETRA; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-20
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is Wolters Kluwers Nv (WOSB.DE)?

Wolters Kluwers Nv trades as WOSB.DE on the XETRA exchange (Germany) and is classified under Industrials in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is WOSB.DE in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Wolters Kluwers Nv is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

What is Wolters Kluwers Nv's Closelook composite score?

59 out of 100, with momentum 44, quality 85 and valuation 66 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-19. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does WOSB.DE trade against its moving averages?

Recovery attempt under the 200-day: Trades +1.5% vs the 50-day and +1.4% vs the 200-day average, 38.9% below the 52-week high and +26.6% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Wolters Kluwers Nv do?

Wolters Kluwer supplies information and software to professionals across health, tax and accounting, financial and corporate compliance, legal and regulatory, and corporate performance and ESG work. Customers range from hospitals and law firms to tax practices, corporations and government bodies. Parts of its health and tax software now carry generative and agentic AI features layered onto existing workflows. Closelook's peer group here is drawn from scored Industrials names sharing its German listing — Nordex, Rheinmetall, Andritz, Hensoldt, Traton and Kion Group. A wider market comparison would add Thomson Reuters, another information-services provider serving professional and legal customers.

Where does Wolters Kluwers Nv sit in the AI build-out?

Wolters Kluwer holds no seat in our indices and sits outside the Rubin build-out stack. The diary tracks it within the wider Industrials sector, under specialty business services, as a professional-software name rather than a supplier into chips, testing or data-centre infrastructure. It carries a Closelook score without any index seat; capital allocation reads as its strongest module, while momentum reads weakest among the scored measures. It has not drawn any diary quotes or mentions to date.

Does Wolters Kluwers Nv pay a dividend?

Wolters Kluwers Nv has paid 2.60 EUR per share over the last twelve months, paid twice a year, a trailing yield of 3.81% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 1.01 EUR on 2026-09-01. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 563 m EUR in dividends and bought back 1.10 bn EUR of its own shares, 122% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 3.5% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for WOSB.DE, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Specialty Business Services, then Industrials. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.