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Wolters Kluwer N.V. (WKL.AS) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Wolters Kluwer sells information and software to professionals rather than to consumers, organised into health, tax and accounting, compliance, legal and regulatory, and corporate performance units. Its tools support clinicians, tax and audit firms, banks, corporate legal teams and sustainability officers, layering cloud software and, increasingly, generative and agentic features onto that content.

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for WKL.AS, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Versus its index Euro-AI 50 — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelooknet index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

Euro-AI 50 · as of 2026-11-06

DayWeekMonth3 months
WKL.AS−2.5%+3.5%+25.5%+27.1%
Euro-AI 50−0.2%−4.2%−5.8%—

Against the index: 7.7 pts ahead on the week, 31.3 pts ahead on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet 1 piece · newest: Daily Pulse, “AI Search — The Owners of the Facts Are Down 20–40%, the Answer Boxes Sit Near Their Highs” (2026-09-22)

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where WKL.AS appears in the diary — 1 piece, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Dailies

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 47/100 · S&P 500 fund at 48, above its 200-day averageEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-11-06
  • Factor regime Defensive rotation — low-vol leading, regime-change watchMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): below its 50-day trend, 60th percentile of the window, -22.8% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-11-06
  • Sector × region Industrials in Europe: −1.4% week · −1.3% month · −9.3% quarter · −2.3% 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 → 2026-11-06
  • Sovereign pressure Index -1.91 · down 2.45 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-11-06
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 Closelooknet universe; scored names rank on their Closelooknet score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against WKL.AS on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Wolters Kluwer N.V.

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

What it does
Wolters Kluwer sells information and software to professionals rather than to consumers, organised into health, tax and accounting, compliance, legal and regulatory, and corporate performance units. Its tools support clinicians, tax and audit firms, banks, corporate legal teams and sustainability officers, layering cloud software and, increasingly, generative and agentic features onto that content. It is based in Alphen aan den Rijn in the Netherlands and serves customers across Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific.
Where it sits in the stack
Wolters Kluwer holds no seat in Rubin, our semiconductor build-out index, so it sits instead in Euro-AI 50, the sleeve that follows European firms adopting artificial intelligence rather than supplying the hardware for it. Inside our universe it counts as a customer of the AI stack, buying compute and models to add generative features to its professional software rather than a constraint on any physical layer.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group sets it against other scored Industrials names, among them Relx, Verisk Analytics, Nordson, Vestas Wind Systems and Accelleron Industries, grouped by sector rather than by business model; Relx is also the name markets usually cite as its closest direct competitor.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
It holds a seat in Euro-AI 50 and carries a Closelooknet score, where the quality module reads strongest and the momentum module weakest; the diary has not yet quoted it directly in an edition.
What the diary watches
Whether the AI features added across the health, tax and compliance units start showing up as faster growth, which would lift a score currently held back by weak momentum.

Wolters Kluwer N.V. (WKL.AS) trades on the AS exchange in Netherlands, classified under Industrials. Constituent of Euro-AI 50.

The Closelooknet company score reads 63/100 composite (momentum 90, quality 84, valuation 65) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’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.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 2.89%, semi-annual · buybacks 1.10 bn EUR in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What WKL.AS 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 2.89% yield on the 2026-11-06 close 2 distributions, paid twice a year 2026-11-06
  • 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 2024: 2.19 EUR (partial) · 2025: 2.43 EUR · 2026: 2.60 EUR to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2024-05-10
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 563 m EUR 79% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 1.10 bn EUR 5.7% of today's market value
  • Share count −2.8% in FY2025 26 m EUR of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 1.66 bn EUR · 121% 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.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-11-07

Quick answers

What is Wolters Kluwer N.V. (WKL.AS)?

Wolters Kluwer N.V. trades as WKL.AS on the AS exchange (Netherlands) and is classified under Industrials in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-11-07.

Is WKL.AS in a Closelooknet index?

Yes — Wolters Kluwer N.V. is a constituent of Euro-AI 50, as of 2026-11-07.

What is Wolters Kluwer N.V.'s Closelooknet composite score?

63 out of 100, with momentum 90, quality 84 and valuation 65 sub-scores, as of 2026-11-07. Scores are Closelooknet's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does WKL.AS trade against its moving averages?

Wolters Kluwer N.V. trades 23.5% above its 50-day and 36.8% above its 200-day moving average (9.7% above its 20-day). As of 2026-11-05 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is WKL.AS doing against its Closelooknet index?

Over the past month Wolters Kluwer N.V. is +25.5% against −5.8% for the Euro-AI 50 — 31.3 points ahead of its index, as of 2026-11-06. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

How does Wolters Kluwer N.V. compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Specialty Business Services), Wolters Kluwer N.V. (WKL.AS) sits 20.5% below its 52-week high, 23.5% above its 50-day average; Wolters Kluwers Nv (WOSB.DE) is 3.8% below, Relx PLC (REL.L) is 12.9% below, Cintas Corporation (CTAS) is 3.0% below, as of 2026-11-05. Put any of them next to WKL.AS in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

Where has Closelooknet written about Wolters Kluwer N.V.?

Wolters Kluwer N.V. appears in 1 Closelooknet piece as of 2026-11-07, most recently Daily Pulse: AI Search — The Owners of the Facts Are Down 20–40%, the Answer Boxes Sit Near Their Highs (2026-09-22). What Closelooknet said most recently: S&P Global is 22.6% below its 52-week high and 19.0% lower on the year after guiding 2026 earnings under consensus; Verisk is 32.1% below, Thomson Reuters and Wolters Kluwer 41.9%, Moody's 14.6%, MSCI 13.3% — the owners of proprietary… (Daily Pulse, 2026-09-22). The "Mentioned on Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does Wolters Kluwer N.V. do?

Wolters Kluwer sells information and software to professionals rather than to consumers, organised into health, tax and accounting, compliance, legal and regulatory, and corporate performance units. Its tools support clinicians, tax and audit firms, banks, corporate legal teams and sustainability officers, layering cloud software and, increasingly, generative and agentic features onto that content. It is based in Alphen aan den Rijn in the Netherlands and serves customers across Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. Closelooknet's peer group sets it against other scored Industrials names, among them Relx, Verisk Analytics, Nordson, Vestas Wind Systems and Accelleron Industries, grouped by sector rather than by business model; Relx is also the name markets usually cite as its closest direct competitor. (Company snapshot of 2026-09-17.)

Where does Wolters Kluwer N.V. sit in the AI build-out?

Wolters Kluwer holds no seat in Rubin, our semiconductor build-out index, so it sits instead in Euro-AI 50, the sleeve that follows European firms adopting artificial intelligence rather than supplying the hardware for it. Inside our universe it counts as a customer of the AI stack, buying compute and models to add generative features to its professional software rather than a constraint on any physical layer. It holds a seat in Euro-AI 50 and carries a Closelooknet score, where the quality module reads strongest and the momentum module weakest; the diary has not yet quoted it directly in an edition. (Company snapshot of 2026-09-17.)

Does Wolters Kluwer N.V. pay a dividend?

Wolters Kluwer N.V. has paid 2.60 EUR per share over the last twelve months, paid twice a year, a trailing yield of 2.89% on the 2026-11-06 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, 121% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 2.8% over the fiscal year. As of 2026-11-06; the "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

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Related in the Closelooknet universe

same Closelooknet index seat first, then Specialty Business Services. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet 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.