October 2026
Largest Publishing Public Companies
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
Wolters Kluwer, News Corp, Informa, New York Times and Pearson.
 | Wolters Kluwer is a global provider of professional information, software solutions, and services in health; tax and accounting; environmental, social, and governance; finance; compliance; and legal. More than 60% of revenue is generated in North America and around 30% is from Europe. | $76 | -38% | $17B | $21B | 3.1x | 8.6x | ||
 | News Corporation is a diversified media and information services conglomerate with significant presence in the US, the UK, and Australia. Key mastheads include The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, New York Post, The Times, The Sun, The Australian, Herald Sun, and The Daily Telegraph. Its 61%-owned REA Group is the dominant property listings platform in Australia. In addition, it owns Harper Collins, one of the largest book publishers in the world, and has a sizable US digital property advertising business, Move. The 65% interest in Foxtel, the Australian pay-TV and streaming provider, was sold in April 2025. The sale to global sports streaming platform, DAZN, was struck at more than 7 times Foxtel's EBITDA. | $29 | +9% | $16B | $18B | 2.0x | 11.8x | ||
 | Informa PLC is an international events, digital services, and academic research group. Through various brands, products, and services, it connects businesses and professionals with the knowledge they need. The group's reportable segments are Informa Markets, Informa Tech, Informa Connect, Informa Festivals, and Taylor & Francis. The Informa Markets segment generates the highest revenue, connecting buyers and sellers across various specialist markets, including boating, pharmaceuticals, food, fashion, and infrastructure. This is achieved by delivering transaction-focused live events, such as exhibitions, specialist digital content, and targeted digital services, including data-driven demand generation products. It generates half its revenue from North America, followed by Asia. | $11 | -11% | $14B | $20B | 3.7x | 28.6x | ||
| The New York Times Company is an American media company headquartered in the New York Times Building in Manhattan, New York City, and the publisher of The New York Times and The New York Times International Edition. Alongside its news report it owns The Athletic, a subscription sports news site bought in February 2022 for $550 million, the word game Wordle, acquired in January 2022, and podcast producer Serial Productions, acquired in 2020. The company earns most of its revenue from digital and print subscriptions, supplemented by digital and print advertising. In 2025 it added 1.4 million net digital subscribers, including 450,000 in the fourth quarter, to reach about 12.8 million, and its digital revenue topped $2 billion for the first time, driven by roughly 14% growth in digital subscription revenue; fourth-quarter digital advertising rose about 25% to $147 million. The newspaper was first published on September 18, 1851, by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones. The company introduced a website paywall in 2011 and has since sold About.com and The Boston Globe to concentrate on its subscription model. Meredith Kopit Levien has been chief executive since 2020. | $64 | +12% | $10B | $9.7B | 3.4x | 19.2x | ||
| Pearson is a British education and assessment company headquartered in London, listed on the London Stock Exchange as a FTSE 100 constituent with a secondary New York Stock Exchange listing through American depositary receipts. It is organised into five business units: Assessment & Qualifications, Virtual Learning, English Language Learning, Higher Education, and Enterprise Learning and Skills. It owns Edexcel, one of the main GCSE and A-level examination boards in England, and sells learning materials, assessments, qualifications, virtual schooling and digital learning products to schools, universities, governments, employers and individual learners. In 2025 it reported revenue of £3,577 million, operating income of £507 million and an average workforce of 17,062. The company traces its origins to 1844, when Samuel Pearson set up the business that became S. Pearson & Son; in the twentieth century it built a publishing and media portfolio that included the Financial Times, a 50% stake in The Economist and Penguin Books. Under Marjorie Scardino it refocused on education, forming Pearson Education in 1998, and between 2015 and 2020 it sold the Financial Times, its Economist stake and its remaining stake in Penguin Random House. Omar Abbosh, formerly of Microsoft, has been chief executive since January 2024. | $16 | +16% | $9.7B | $12B | 2.5x | 8.3x | ||
 | Springer Nature AG & Co KGaA is a research, educational, and professional publisher providing content to communities through a range of platforms, products, and services. It offers journals, books, platforms, databases & and solutions. The company includes three Segments: Research, Education, and Health. The company operates in the Americas, APAC, Germany, and Other EMEA regions. The majority of revenue is generated from the research segment in America. | $22 | -11% | $4.4B | $5.7B | 2.6x | 6.7x | ||
 | Kadokawa Corp is a Japan based publisher and digital content platform provider. It is involved in various businesses such as publishing, film, publishing rights, digital contents, planning, development and operation of network entertainment service, and contents and operation of video- sharing website. | $24 | +7% | $3.5B | $3.1B | 1.7x | 23.2x | ||
 | Jiangsu Phoenix Publishing & Media Corp Ltd is a China-based publishing company. The company operates four segments. The Publishing segment covers the publishing and distribution of textbooks, teaching aids, general books, audio-visual products, and vocational education software. The Issuing Division handles the wholesale and retail of teaching materials, teaching aids, general books, audio-visual products, and cultural supplies. The Other segment includes new media businesses such as software development, film and television production, digital asset management, cloud services, and investment management. The Headquarters segment oversees distribution management, procurement, settlement, group publication distribution, textbook bidding, and publishing business management. | $1 | -12% | $3.2B | $2.1B | 1.1x | 7.1x | ||
| Xinhua Winshare Publishing & Media Co Ltd is engaged in integrated cultural operations specializing in the creative content production of publications, education services, cultural consumption services, supply chain services, and capital operation. Its activities are editorial and publishing of publications, sales of publications in physical stores and the internet, distribution of textbooks and supplementary materials, education information and equipment services, etc. It is through two operating segments; the Publication segment, which includes publishing books, periodicals, and audiovisual products, and the Distribution segment, which comprises the distribution of textbooks and supplementary materials. The group generates a majority of its revenue from the Distribution segment. | $1 | -50% | $2.9B | $1.7B | 1.0x | 6.9x | ||
 | Lagardere SA is in the business of content publishing, production, broadcasting, and distribution. It is also engaged in the travel retail business with various brands such as Relay and Aelia Duty-Free, and other selective distribution brands. The company operates through divisions: Lagardere Publishing, Lagardere Travel Retail, and others. | $20 | -8% | $2.9B | $8.2B | 0.8x | 5.1x | ||
| China South Publishing & Media Group Co Ltd operates in the publishing and media industry. The company offers publishing products, including books, newspapers, periodicals, audio and video products, electronics, network, comic, and animation. | $2 | -10% | $2.8B | $529M | 0.3x | 1.8x | ||
| China Science Publishing & Media Ltd is a China based company engaged in providing publishing services. It offers books, journals, newspapers, literature and data, online publishing, import and export and printing services. For overseas distribution, the company uses Science Press brand. | $3 | +17% | $2.5B | $1.9B | 4.2x | 28.7x | ||
| China Literature Ltd is an investment holding company. The company along with its subsidiaries provides online reading services, copyright commercialization, writer cultivation and brokerage, and operation of text work reading. It generates its revenue from Online reading through self-owned platform products. it operates in two segments: Online business and Intellectual property operations and others. The Online business segment that derives the majority of revenue comprises online paid reading, online advertising, and game publishing. The Intellectual property operations and other segment include licensing and distribution of film and television properties, copyrights licensing, sales of adaptation rights and scripts, sales of physical books, and in-house online games operations. | $2 | -54% | $2.5B | $1.4B | 1.3x | (16.5x) | ||
| Zhejiang Publishing & Media Co Ltd is engaged in the publication, distribution and printing of books, periodicals, audio-visual products and electronic publications. | $1 | +0% | $2.5B | $794M | 0.5x | 3.7x | ||
| John Wiley & Sons Inc is a publisher and a trusted leader in research and learning. The company segment includes: Research, which includes the reporting lines of Research Publishing and Research Solutions, and Learning includes the Academic and Professional reporting lines and consists of publishing, courseware, and assessments. Its industry-principal content, services, platforms, and knowledge networks are tailored to meet the evolving needs of its customers and partners, including researchers, students, instructors, professionals, institutions, and corporations. The company empowers knowledge-seekers to transform today’s obstacles into tomorrow’s brightest opportunities. For more than two centuries, the company has been delivering on its timeless mission to unlock human potential. | $49 | +30% | $2.5B | $3.7B | 2.2x | 9.2x | ||
| McGraw Hill is an American education company that publishes curriculum and course materials and sells adaptive learning software to schools, universities and professionals. Its roots go back to 1888, when James H. McGraw bought the American Journal of Railway Appliances, and to the 1909 merger of his and John A. Hill's publishing operations into the McGraw-Hill Book Company. The K-12 business provides core, supplemental and intervention curricula to US schools; Higher Education sells digital courseware such as the Connect platform and the ALEKS adaptive learning system alongside e-books and print materials; Global Professional serves medical and engineering learners; and International sells in more than 100 countries. The McGraw-Hill Companies sold the education business to Apollo Global Management for $2.4 billion in 2013, Platinum Equity bought it for $4.5 billion in 2021, and it completed an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker MH on 24 July 2025. The company reports about $2.2 billion of annual revenue and 4,200 employees, and digital products generated about 61% of revenue in the first quarter of fiscal 2026. It is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio and led by chief executive Philip Moyer. | $13 | +13% | $2.4B | $4.9B | ||||
| Shandong Publishing & Media Co Ltd provides publishing services. The company owns and manages publishing houses, periodical presses, printing enterprises, printing materials company, and logistics company. Geographically, the activities are carried out through China. | $1 | -13% | $2.1B | $1.3B | ||||
 | TX Group AG is a Swiss company with a network of digital platforms. It offers information, orientation, entertainment, and services to its users every day. The company provides newspapers and magazines. The company's operating segments include TX Markets; Goldbach; 20 Minuten; Tamedia and Group and Ventures. It generates maximum revenue from the Tamedia segment. | $204 | -19% | $2.1B | $2.3B | ||||
| Louis Hachette Group is engaged in Publishing, Travel Retail and Magazines and Online Media. | $2 | +10% | $1.9B | $7.6B | ||||
 | Sanoma Oyj is a learning and media company. The group publishes magazines and newspapers along with educational learning literature and services. It operates in two segments: Learning and Media Finland. Sanoma's learning products and services enable teachers to develop the talents of every child to reach their full potential. The company offers printed and digital learning content as well as digital learning and teaching platforms for primary, secondary and vocational education. The Finnish media business of Sanoma provides information, experiences, inspiration, and entertainment via multiple media platforms: newspapers, radio, television, events, magazines, online, and mobile channels. The company's publications include Helsingin Sanomat, IltaSanomat among others. | $11 | -9% | $1.8B | $1.9B | ||||
| China Publishing & Media Holdings Co Ltd is a specialized and large-scale publishing group. The company's publishing business mainly includes book publishing, newspaper publishing, electronic audio and video publishing and related copyright business. | $1 | -9% | $1.7B | $1.1B | ||||
| Visual China Group Co Ltd is engaged in providing digital visual content and visual solutions to customers in media, commercial, and consumer sectors. It services include Copyright removal, rights protection agent, Sports, Entertainment and Digital marketing, and Special shooting. | $2 | -23% | $1.6B | $1.6B | ||||
| Anhui Xinhua Media Co Ltd operates as a publishing and printing company in China. Its businesses include publication and distribution logistics services, import and export business, real estate development, advertising, film and television media, hotel management, financing lease, e-commerce and other fields. | Printing+1 | $1 | -13% | $1.6B | $118M | |||
| Chinese Universe Publishing And Media Co Ltd are engaged in the publishing, printing, and distribution of materials, newspapers, periodicals, and audiovisual publications in China. A company extends is business in new media and online education, Internet games, digital publishing, Internet of Things technology applications, international copyright transactions. | $1 | -23% | $1.5B | - | ||||
| Changjiang Publishing & Media Co Ltd is engaged in the publication and media industry, as well as the manufacturing of clothing and other fiber products. | $1 | -10% | $1.3B | $881M | ||||
| Alma Media Oyj is a media and service company focusing on digital services and publishing. In addition to news content, the Group's products provide useful information related to lifestyle, career, and business development. The business segments include Alma Career, Alma Marketplaces, and Alma News Media. It generates maximum revenue from the Alma Career segment. The group's business is mainly divided into two geographical areas, Finland from where it earns the majority of its revenue, and the rest of Europe. | $15 | -14% | $1.2B | $1.3B | ||||
 | Saudi Research And Media Group is an integrated publishing group based in Saudi Arabia, engaged in trading, media, advertising, promotions, distribution, printing and publishing, and public relations. It operates mainly in the Middle East, Europe, and North Africa. The company has four operating segments; Publishing, visual, and digital content segment, the Public relations and advertising segment, the Printing and packaging segment, and All other segments. The company derives a majority of its revenue from the Publishing, visual, and digital content segment. | $15 | -68% | $1.2B | $1.4B | ||||
| USA Today Co Inc is a diversified media company with expansive reach at the national and local level, dedicated to empowering and enriching communities. It prioritizes a digital-first approach, focusing on audience growth and engagement while diversifying revenue streams. Through its trusted brands, including the USA TODAY NETWORK, comprised of the national publication, USA TODAY, and local media organizations, including a network of local properties, in the United States, and Newsquest, a wholly-owned subsidiary operating in the United Kingdom, provide essential journalism, local content, and digital experiences to audiences and businesses. Its digital marketing solutions brand, LocaliQ, supports small and medium-sized businesses with digital marketing products and solutions. | $7 | +40% | $1.1B | $2.1B | ||||
 | Sonaecom SA is engaged in technology, media and telecommunications . The business portfolio includes the Software and Technology area, with Bright Pixel Capital the Online & Media area where there are businesses such as the Publico daily, generalist newspaper. Its segments include NOS, Media segment derives revenue from Advertising revenues: essentially include the solicitation of advertising for Jornal Publico; and Technologies segment which derives revenue from Maintenance services revenue associated with the maintenance of IT services provided or sold, Consulting services revenue from services provided in consulting projects, and Software as a Service revenue from the implementation of Software as a Service (SaaS) contracts. Geographically, it derives majority revenue from Portugal. | $3 | -4% | $1B | $749M | ||||
 | Saregama India Ltd is a holding company, which engages in the production and distribution of music, television programs, and movies. It operates through the following segments: Music, Films/TV Serials, and Publication. The Music segment deals with the business of manufacturing and sale of Music storage devices viz. Carvaan, Music Card, etc, and dealing with related music rights. The Films/TV Serials and Event segment engaged in the production and sale/telecast/broadcast of films/TV Serials, pre-recorded programs, organizing live musical events, and dealing in film rights. The Publication segment publishes the weekly current affairs magazine ‘OPEN’ through its publication business. The firm derives a majority of its revenue from the Music segment. | $5 | +1% | $992M | $979M | ||||
| Daily Journal Corp publishes newspapers and websites covering California and Arizona and produces several specialized information services. The company operates in two segments: Traditional business and Journal Technologies which includes Journal Technologies, Inc. and Journal Technologies (Canada) Inc. It also serves as a newspaper representative specializing in public notice advertising. The majority of revenue is generated from the Traditional segment. | $652 | +61% | $898M | $482M | ||||
| Zhejiang Sunriver Culture Co Ltd is a China-based company engaged in culture consulting, animation design, film and television planning, information services, among others. The group is mainly engaged in the creation, planning, production, distribution, and animation of mobile internet animation, animation related copyright authorization and animation related internet and mobile online game development and operation services. In addition, the company is also involved in the finance business. | $1 | -22% | $834M | $1.1B | ||||
 | Nine Entertainment is the largest media conglomerate in Australia. It operates Nine Network, a free-to-air TV network across five capital cities, as well as in some regional areas. It owns 9Now, a leading broadcast video-on-demand business. Its publishing business is the second-largest newspaper group in Australia with key mastheads such as Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald, and The Age. Nine also operates a leading domestic-owned subscription video-on-demand business in Australia called Stan, and a talk-based radio network. In March 2026, Nine completed the purchase of outdoor advertising entity QMS Media for AUD 850 million. | $0 | -39% | $733M | $1.8B | ||||
| Scholastic Corp is an American publishing and education media company that focuses on books and educational material for schools, teachers, parents, and children. It creates print, digital, and audiobooks, learning materials and programs, classroom magazines, and other products that support children’s learning and reading both at home and at school. The company also owns rights to various books, including Harry Potter, Dog Man, and The Hunger Games among others. It has three reportable segments Children’s Book Publishing and Distribution, Education Solutions, and International. The majority of its revenue is from the Children’s Book Publishing and Distribution segment. | $37 | +31% | $689M | $1.1B | ||||
| Bloomsbury Publishing PLC is a publisher of books and other media for general readers, children, students, researchers, and professionals. It offers authors access to these multiple markets in multiple formats throughout the world in print, through e-books, digital downloads, and apps in schools, libraries, universities, and in terrestrial and internet bookshops. The company divisions are Consumer and Academic & Professional. Consumer division is split out into Children's Trade and Adult Trade; and Academic & Professional division split between Academic and Professional, Education, Special Interest, and Content Services. It derives maximum revenue from the Consumer division segment. The company operates in the UK, North America, and other countries. | $8 | +28% | $682M | $663M | ||||
 | Arnoldo Mondadori Editore SpA is a European publishing group. It publishes books and magazines and operates retail bookstores across Italy. Books are fiction, and non-fiction, for the young genres. Magazines published are in various fields for both men and women. The company's operating segment includes Trade Books; Education Books; Retail; Media; Corporate and Shared Services. It generates maximum revenue from the Books segment. | $2 | -6% | $593M | $950M | ||||
| Duzhe Publishing and Media Co Ltd engaged in the publication and distribution of journals. The company also involves in the publication and distribution of electronic audio-visual products, advertising business, and new media business. | $1 | +7% | $583M | $372M | ||||
| Rcs Mediagroup is a publishing company. It prints newspapers in Italy and Spain and is active in magazines, television, radio and new media, as well as one of the top operators in the advertising sales and distribution market. The company operates in daily newspapers, books, radio broadcasting, new media and digital and satellite TV, organizes important sporting events and is among the operators in advertising sales and distribution in Italy and Spain. Its operating business segments are Newspapers Italy, Magazines Italy, Advertising and Sport, Unidad Editorial, and Corporate and Other Activities, with maximum revenue from the Newspapers segment. Geographically, the company operates in Italy, Spain, and Other countries. The maximum revenue is derived from Italy. | $1 | -22% | $483M | $557M | ||||
 | Vitru Brasil Empreendimentos Participacoes e Comercio SA invests in educational service providers and provides distance learning continuing education services through its subsidiaries. The group provides educational services in Brazil, mainly undergraduate and continuing education courses, offered in person at its campuses located throughout Brazil. Its operating segments are: Distance Learning Undergraduate Courses, In-person undergraduate programs, and Continuing education courses. Maximum revenue is generated from its Distance Learning business, which offers virtual learning opportunities in education, business administration, accounting, physical education, vocational training, engineering, and health-related courses. | $3 | +43% | $454M | $754M | ||||
 | Alter Ego Media SA operates in two sectors. The first sector includes television broadcasting, radio broadcasting and audiovisual content creation. The television broadcasting activity is carried out through the television station with the MEGA logo, as well as MEGA’s Hybrid Television, MEGA PLAY and the website. The radio broadcasting activity is carried out through the radio station MY RADIO 104.6. The Group is also actively involved in the development and creation of original audiovisual content, on the one hand intended to meet the needs of the Group. The second sector includes printed and electronic publications. This activity includes the news media TO VIMA, TA NEA and OIKONOMIKOS TACHYDROMOS, the web portal, as well as the creation of thematic content for various subjects. | $7 | +4% | $433M | $436M | ||||
| Ronshin Group is engaged in the planning and distribution of children's books and the export of children's cultural products. | $4 | -22% | $368M | $319M | ||||
 | Promotora de Informaciones SA operates under the commercial name 'Prisa' which is a multimedia group in Spain and Portugal. The business is operated through two segments which includes Education and Media. Its Education segment includes the sale of educational books and the services and materials related to the education systems. Geographically, it operates in Spain, Portugal, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, and other countries out of which Spain accounts for key revenue for the company. | $3 | -41% | $351M | $1.2B | ||||
| Future PLC is a platform for specialist media underpinned by proprietary technology and enabled by data, with diversified revenue streams. It focuses on various areas which include technology, games, films, music, and photography under brands such as Louder, Tom's Guide, PC Gamer, Digital Camera World, Marie Claire, and others. The company functions through the following divisions; the Media division which generates maximum revenue includes income from digital advertising, affiliate revenue for products, rewards, price comparison and events; and the Magazine division includes revenue associated with digital or printed magazines or bookazines from advertising, to subscriptions, to newstrade. Its reportable segments include the United Kingdom which derives key revenue, and the United States. | $4 | -52% | $338M | $798M | ||||
| Orell Fussli AG is a diversified industrial and trading group engaged in the businesses of banknote and security printing, industrial systems used in the individualization of security documents and branded products, bookstore and Rest business area. In its banknote and security printing operations, it produces banknotes, identity documents, and securities, and is noted for applications of printing processes and technologies. The industrial systems business unit manufactures industrial systems for the digital printing and encoding of banknotes, passports and security documents, plastic cards, labels, and packaging. The geographic presence in Switzerland, Germany, Rest of Europe and Africa, North and South America and Asia and Oceania. The majority of its revenue derives from Switzerland. | Printing+1 | $166 | +18% | $326M | $273M | |||
| D B Corp Ltd is an Indian print media company with a presence in the radio and digital sectors. The company publishes six newspapers in Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, and English across 14 states with a total readership of approximately forty-four million. The flagship newspaper brands of the Group are Dainik Bhaskar, Divya Bhaskar, and Divya Marathi. MY FM, the company operates through two segments such as the Printing/Publishing and Allied Business segment, which encompasses newspapers, magazines, printing job work, and internet and mobile interactive services, and the Radio segment, which focuses on radio broadcasting. | $2 | -41% | $317M | $247M | ||||
| Caltagirone Editore SpA is a newspaper publishing company in Italy. The company is engaged in the publishing and advertising segments. The company is also involved in Financing activities. The company earns revenues in the form of Circulation, Advertising, Web content Sales, Promotion, and other income. | $3 | +39% | $316M | $313M | ||||
 | Polaris Media ASA is the largest media house and printing group. It owns and operates media houses, distribution companies and printing companies in Norway and on the west coast of Sweden. The company places great emphasis on the development of journalists as well as the individual media house's social missions and has a strong regional and local foundation with editorial freedom, independence, and transparency. | $6 | +29% | $314M | $286M | ||||
| Navneet Education Ltd is an Indian company engaged in the publishing of educational and children’s books, scholastic stationery, and non-paper stationery products. It offers syllabus-based content in print and digital mediums aligned with various Indian educational boards including CBSE and ICSE. The business segments includes Publication, Stationary and Others. The company markets its products under several brands such as Navneet, Vikas, Gala, YOUVA, and TOPClass, and has a dominant presence in Western India with expanding reach across the country and internationally. Navneet also provides digital learning solutions and has diversified into non-paper stationery and general books. Its revenue is generated from publishing, stationery product sales, and digital education services. | $1 | -30% | $283M | $292M | ||||
| Smiths News plc is a UK wholesaler of newspapers and magazines, providing nationwide early-morning distribution and logistics services. The company supplies newspapers, magazines, and related products to a wide network of retail outlets, supported by integrated services such as warehousing, pick-and-pack, returns collection, recycling, invoicing, and market insight. Operating through a hub-and-spoke distribution network across England and Wales, Smiths News delivers seven days a week, reaching locations from urban centres to remote rural communities, and also offers recycling and waste management solutions through its dedicated recycling operations. | $1 | +31% | $252M | $277M | ||||
 | Caxton and CTP Publishers and Printers Ltd is involved in the publishing and printing of newspapers and magazines, as well as in the manufacturing and distribution of packaging, stationery, and labels. It operates through three reportable segments: Publishing, Printing and Distribution; Packaging and Stationery; and Other. The Publishing, Printing and Distribution segment derives revenue from newspaper publishing and printing, digital assets, web and gravure printing, and book and magazine printing. The Packaging and Stationery segment derives revenue from selling packaging and stationery products. The Other segment derives revenue from dividends, intergroup rent, and interest. The majority of revenue comes from Packaging and Stationery. | $1 | -9% | $246M | $60M | ||||
 | KidariStudio is South Korea based representative content company engaged in developing various media content worldwide. It develops e-book, e-learning, and Webtoon content. The company publishes e-books in various fields, such as fantasy, martial arts, romance, BL, light novel, sensual novel, and other fields. | $6 | +129% | $223M | $198M | ||||
 | Grupo Clarin SA is a holding company that operates in the Media industry in Argentina. Its operations include newspaper and other printing, publishing, and advertising activities, broadcast television, radio operations, television content production, online and new media services, and other media-related activities. Its business segments include Printing and Publishing, Broadcasting and Programming, and Others. Print and Digital Publications segments include national and regional newspapers, a sports daily, magazine publishing, editing and distribution, and commercial printing. | $2 | +14% | $222M | $197M | ||||
| Reach PLC is a commercial national and regional news publisher in the UK, producing and distributing content through newspapers, magazines, and digital platforms. Its portfolio includes influential and iconic brands such as the Mirror, Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star, My London, Daily Record, and Sunday Mail, market brands in key metropolitan markets across the country. Its group's revenue streams are from print and digital activities. | $1 | -21% | $193M | $276M | ||||
| AlphaPolis Co Ltd is engaged in the development, planning, and sale of smartphone applications and PC browser games. The company is also involved in the publication of books. | $7 | -34% | $190M | $120M | ||||
 | WildBrain Ltd is a Canadian media company specializing in children’s entertainment, known for producing, distributing, and licensing popular content. The company operates production studios, a multi-channel YouTube network, and a brand licensing agency (WildBrain CPLG). WildBrain’s content reaches audiences in various countries across TV, digital platforms, and consumer products. Its business spans content creation, audience engagement, and franchise management with offices in Canada and internationally. It has three reportable segments: 1) Content and Licensing; 2) Global Licensing, and 3) Canadian Television Broadcasting. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the management of copyrights, licensing, and brands for third parties. | $1 | -17% | $189M | $168M | ||||
| Grupo Media Capital SGPS SA is a Portugal-based company engaged in the media industry. Group through its subsidiaries is engaged in broadcasting and producing television programs, music publishing, distribution of movie rights, Internet advertising and creation of Websites. Business activity is functioned through Portugal, Spain, and Latin America. It operates through various segment which are Television, Audiovisual Production and Radio and it derives the majority of the revenue from Television sector. | $2 | -7% | $182M | $227M | ||||
 | Roularta Media Group NV is engaged in the publication and printing of news and niche magazines, newspapers, and free sheets, in the audiovisual media, and electronic publishing. The company operates through two segments, Media Brands and Printing Services. The Media Brands segment refers to all brands that are marketed by RMG and its participants. It includes all sales of advertising, subscriptions, newsstands, and line extensions of the brands. Printing Services, on the other hand, refers to premedia and print shop activities for in-house brands and external customers. The group derives the majority of its revenue from the Media Brands division. Geographically, the company generates a majority of its revenue from Belgium and the rest from the Netherlands and Germany. | $14 | -7% | $168M | $122M | ||||
| Goodheart-Willcox Co Inc is a United States-based company engaged in publishing both print and digital textbooks on technical, trades, engineering; family and consumer sciences; business, computer, and career education; agriculture education; health sciences; and health and physical education. It also produces online courses and other instructional resources that provide a complete classroom solution. The company publishes for technical, trades, and technology; family and consumer sciences; and business, marketing, and career education. The firm recognizes revenue from selling digital online content, printed products and others. | $357 | -14% | $159M | $159M | ||||
| Lee Enterprises Inc is a local news publication company in the United States. It is a digital-first subscription business providing local markets with valuable, high-quality, trusted, intensely local news, information, advertising, and marketing services. The product portfolio of the company includes digital subscription platforms, daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers, and niche products, all delivering original local news and information as well as national and international news. The products offer digital and print editions, and content and advertising are available in real-time through the websites and mobile apps. | $7 | +67% | $157M | $575M | ||||
| IG Port Inc is a Japan-based content provider which delivers high-quality animated works and comics from the planning and production of contents, images, and music to the worldwide market. | $7 | -26% | $142M | $98M | ||||
| Jagran Prakashan Ltd is a India based company along with subsidiaries engaged in printing and publication of newspapers and magazines and operating private FM radio stations through the brand Radio City. The company has organized its business into three categories: Printing, publishing, and digital; FM Radio business; and Others comprising outdoor advertising and event management and activation services. The company's majority of revenue is derived through the printing, publishing, and digital segment from India. Some of the company's popular publications include Dainik Jagran, Mid-day, Sakhi, Inquilab, and Naidunia among others. | $1 | -23% | $138M | $71M | ||||
 | Byggmastare Anders J Ahlstrom Holding AB is an investment company. Its objective is to create long-term value for shareholders, the society, and other stakeholders. The company focuses mainly on investments in Sweden and the rest of the Nordic region, primarily in small and medium-sized companies, public as well as private. | $5 | -35% | $135M | $131M | ||||
 | Agora SA is one of the leading media company in Poland. It is engaged in the business of publishing of daily newspapers, magazines and periodic print media. It also provides television advertising, radio broadcasting and online services. The company's publishing portfolio includes Gazeta Wyborcza, and Metro newspaper and several magazines. The internet offering includes Internet portals such as Gazeta.pl, Sport.pl and Blox.pl. In the area radio of broadcasting industry, the company operates more than 15 radio stations including such brands as TOK FM, Rock Radio and Golden Hits (Zlote Przeboje), Radio Pogoda, and Internet radio Tuba.fm and Tuba.pl. The firm also manages a digital terrestrial TV channel called METRO. | $3 | +15% | $134M | $330M | ||||
 | PT Rans Entertainment Indonesia Tbk is an integrated lifestyle and media company in Indonesia operating businesses across media, beauty, food and consumer products, and lifestyle sectors. Its activities include content creation, talent management, event production, and development of consumer products and lifestyle offerings. | $0 | -- | $128M | $124M | ||||
| Saudi Printing & Packaging Co is a printing house in the Middle East and Northern Africa. The business activity of the group is operated in three segments, namely Printing, Packaging, and Other. The Printing segment includes printing works, related tools, and required raw materials. The Packaging segment comprises of printing works on plastic and commercial posters in addition to the manufacture of plastic products. The Other Segment includes the headquarters, management activities, investment activities and others. The majority of the revenue derives from the Packaging segment. Geographically, the company derives revenue from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Others. | $2 | -33% | $124M | $281M | ||||
 | Gyldendal AS along with its holdings is engaged in publishing activities and management of its subsidiaries. It publishes school books, textbooks, children's books, as well as trade books, professional books, dictionaries, and encyclopedias. It also publishes nonfiction books such as biographies, history, food and drinks, art and culture, and philosophy. | $182 | -26% | $120M | $154M | ||||
| Vocento is a publicly listed Spanish media group with national and regional newspapers, digital news products, classified platforms, audiovisual interests, events, and other audience businesses. The group traces its origins to 1945 and operates from Spain through brands that include ABC and a network of regional publications. Advertising, circulation, subscriptions, content distribution, events, and digital services contribute to revenue. Its classified and lead-generation activities cover property, employment, vehicles, and other consumer categories, while audiovisual operations include broadcast, production, and rights interests. Vocento has used acquisitions and media-for-equity investments to diversify beyond conventional newspaper revenue. During the first quarter of 2017 it acquired 50% of Shows On Demand, an online collaborative platform for organizing live concerts. The company serves advertisers, readers, subscribers, event audiences, and commercial partners and is classified as a public publishing and digital-media company. | $1 | +29% | $115M | $209M | ||||
| Keskisuomalainen Oyj is engaged in publishing print and online newspapers and magazines in Finland. It also provides printing services for magazines, newspapers, direct mail products, attachments, brochures, posters, and books. The company also offers marketing and communications solutions; digital content production solutions, as well as digital media; and research services. | $10 | +11% | $112M | $161M | ||||
| Gyldendal ASA operates a publishing house in Norway. It offers a range of fiction, general literature, subject books and teaching materials in paper as well as electronic form. Gyldendal operates its bookstore chain through ARK Bokhandel AS. | $49 | +19% | $112M | $168M | ||||
| Edel SE & Co KGaA is an independent media company. The Edel Group divides its operational business into three business areas which are Manufacturing & Distribution, Music & Entertainment, and Books. The company offers artists, authors, labels, publishers, and other rights holders, different types of products and services. The company has two reportable segments which are Manufacturing and logistics and Marketing and sales. The company generates the majority of its revenue from Manufacturing and logistics. Geographically company generates revenues from Great Britain, Germany, Ireland, USA, France, and others. | $5 | +4% | $110M | $178M | ||||
| Yellow Pages is a Canadian digital media and marketing company serving local businesses and the consumers searching for them. It operates online properties including YP.ca and Canada411.ca alongside mobile applications and printed directories. Business customers purchase advertising, enhanced listings and digital marketing services to improve their visibility and attract prospective customers. Its services include website production, search engine marketing, search optimization, display advertising and social media campaign management. The NetSync service distributes business information across a network of online properties to keep listings consistent. Yellow Pages produces and manages content such as business profiles, videos and websites for customers that may lack their own marketing resources. Revenue comes from advertising and related marketing services, with digital activities representing the majority of the company's business. | $10 | +21% | $110M | $107M | ||||
 | NZME Ltd is New Zealand based company. The company operates in three business segments: Audio segment includes terrestrial radio stations, digital iHeartRadio, podcasts and Radio brand websites; Publishing segment includes print publications (excluding dedicated real estate publications) and digital news websites and Business Desk; OneRoof segment comprises oneroof website and dedicated real estate print publications. | $1 | -12% | $110M | $159M | ||||
| Ilkka Oyj consists of two business areas: marketing and technology services and media services. Marketing and technology services consist of companies that specialize in digital sales, marketing and communication services and the technologies that support these. Media services consist of provincial, local and city media that offer content and services to consumer and business customers. Ilkka's main market area is Finland, but in terms of technology services, it also operates internationally through Liana Technologies and Ungapped in Sweden, and elsewhere in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. | $4 | -14% | $106M | $88M | ||||
| Reworld Media is a French media group that publishes consumer content and provides communications services for commercial brands. Based in Boulogne-Billancourt, the group operates media brands across subjects including women’s interests, homes, food, motoring and entertainment. Its publishing activities distribute editorial content through print publications, websites, newsletters, mobile applications and social media. Advertisers use these audiences through advertising campaigns, branded content and other marketing services tailored to particular consumer interests. The group also develops activities such as events and e-commerce alongside its editorial brands. Reworld Media was founded in 2012 and is publicly traded in Paris. Its acquisition of the ZoomOn network in 2015 expanded its local social media communities and added audiences for targeted advertiser communications. | $2 | -6% | $106M | $223M | ||||
| Bastei Lubbe AG is a media company in the form of a publishing house. The company publishes books, audiobooks, eBooks, and other digital products in the genres of fiction and popular science, as well as periodicals including novel booklets and puzzle magazines. Its operating segment includes Books, and Novel booklets. The company generates maximum revenue from the Books segment. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from Germany. | $7 | -30% | $94M | $90M | ||||
 | Grandtech C.G.System Inc engages in wholesale of books, publishing, wholesale of computer software, other services (sales agent for computer programming), other consulting services (analysis and planning consulting services of computer management information and automatic system) and data processing services. The group has two reportable segments: Taiwan region, and Hong Kong and Macao regions. | $1 | -24% | $81M | $58M | ||||
| Reading International Inc is a diversified company, engaged in the development, ownership, and operation of multiplex cinemas and retail and commercial real estate in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. It operates through two segments: the Cinema segment includes Reading Cinemas, Angelika Film Center, Consolidated Theatres, and City Cinemas; the Real Estate segment includes real estate development and the rental or licensing of retail, commercial and live theater assets. | $2 | +33% | $64M | $415M | ||||
| D&C Media Co Ltd is a South Korea based company is engaged in publishing of books, magazines and other printed materials. It offers novels in various genres, such as romance, fantasy, martial arts, mystery, and science fiction through bookstores or books rental stores. | $5 | -48% | $63M | $23M | ||||
 | Hurriyet Gazetecilik ve Matbaacilik AS is a Turkey-based company engaged in the media sector. It offers services such as printing, distribution, Internet services, book publishing, and advertising domestically, and internationally. Geographical segments include Turkey, Russia and EE and Europe. It derives a majority of its revenue from Turkey. Its core business is journalism, It has expanded into printing, distribution, online services, book publishing, classified ads, TV productions and marketing over the years through its domestic and overseas subsidiaries and affiliates, in keeping with developments and requirements of the sector. | $0 | -30% | $62M | $54M | ||||
| Polskie Towarzystwo Wspierania Przedsiebiorczosci SA is engaged in creating solutions in the area of communication, including publishing press magazines and specialist publications, building and managing web portals. The company also organizes congresses, conferences, seminars, special events and training. | $36 | -5% | $58M | $57M | ||||
| Sports Entertainment Group Ltd is a multi-platform content and entertainment group with interests in broadcasting, publishing, and other digital assets. The company delivers brand stories to national, metropolitan, and regional audiences via multiple platforms, including radio, print, television, and other events. | $0 | -5% | $56M | $57M | ||||
 | Star Media Group Bhd publishes, prints, and distributes newspapers and advertisements in print and electronic media. The company operates in three reportable segments: Print, digital and events which is engaged in the publication and distribution of newspapers, magazines, and electronic media and online portal and provision of event organizing management; Broadcasting which operates wireless broadcasting stations; and the Property development and investment segment which develops commercial properties and invests in real estate. The majority of the company's revenue is generated from the Print, digital and events segment. Geographically, the company derives its key revenue from Malaysia and the rest from Singapore, The United States of America, United Kingdom and other regions. | $0 | -20% | $52M | - | ||||
| Time Out Group PLC is a media and entertainment company. It helps people discover, book, and share what the world's cities have to offer. The company provides content about food, drink, entertainment, film, music, attractions, art, culture, shopping, nightlife, hotels, and travel. It operates in two divisions namely Time Out Media and Time Out Market. Time Out Media includes digital and print advertising, marketing solutions, live events tickets, and sponsorship, commissions generated by e-commerce transactions, and fees from the franchise partners while Time Out Market includes concessionaires' sales, Time Out operated bars, and retail, events, and sponsorship. It Its geographical segments include Europe, North America, and the Rest of the World. | $0 | -40% | $49M | $172M | ||||
| Big Medya Teknoloji AS Formerly Dogan Burda Dergi Yayincilik ve Pazarlama AS is a Turkey-based company involved in the publishing of Magazines. It has licensing agreements with various international publishing brands of magazines including Auto Show, Here, Capital, Elle and Elle Decoration, Maison Francaise, Chip and Level and, Popular Science. | $1 | -88% | $48M | $49M | ||||
| Class Editori SpA publishes and distributes newspapers and magazines, including the Italian financial daily MF/Milano Finanza. It also publishes on the Internet and owns a real-time financial data provider. The company publishes business and financial news, fashion, luxury, and lifestyle information. It is also involved in electronic publishing activities, which supply data, information, and financial news through various multimedia platforms, including cable, satellite, Intranet, Internet, TV channels, and instore/radio. | $0 | -10% | $48M | $88M | ||||
| CIA Melhoramentos de Sao Paulo primarily engages in publishing business in Brazil. It offers paperback and digital books primarily for children, teenagers, and schools; cooking books; and customized books for companies. The company also engages in developing and maintaining forests; conducting reforestation activities of pines and eucalyptus; and urban, industrial, or infrastructure projects of real estate development. In addition, it is involved in the production of fibers, such as thermo ground wood, Bleached Thermo Ground Wood and Neolux Fibers, used as raw material for the production of paperboard, tissue and special papers. | $7 | -15% | $46M | $83M | ||||
| Effecten-Spiegel AG is engaged in the acquisition, administration and management of shareholdings in other companies, as well as in the publishing of a weekly investment magazine, Effecten-Spiegel. | $13 | +11% | $44M | $28M | ||||
| Beaglee Inc is a comic publishing company. It is engaged in the content platform business, which includes comic distribution services. It also provides a cloud funding service. | $8 | -4% | $44M | $34M | ||||
| IMPRESA SGPS SA is a media group with three business areas: SIC, IMPRESA Publishing, and IMPRESA Digital, with interests that cover television, cable channels, newspaper Expresso, magazines, internet properties, and distribution. The company operates an online platform, Impresa Media Criativa, that gathers all of its creative outlets. Geographically operations are carried out through the Portugal region. The operating segment of the group is Television, Publishing, and others. | $0 | -28% | $39M | $181M | ||||
| YLAB Corp is engaged in the planning and production of webtoon, video production, webtoon education, and webtoon localization. In addition, the scope of the business has been expanded to the planning and production of video works. | $2 | -53% | $25M | $30M | ||||
| Mr. Blue Corp is an online comics publisher. The company provides a variety of comics and webtoons in Korea and abroad. It supplies the cartoon content to portal sites such as Naver, Cacao, Nate and google books. | $2 | +33% | $25M | $10M | ||||
| ContentreeJoongAng Corp publishes magazines, operates movie theaters and produces soap operas. However, most of the company's profit comes from sales of magazines. | $1 | -83% | $22M | $999M | ||||
| Gremi Media SA is a Poland based company, engages in offering economic and business press and an Internet portfolio for professionals and senior managers. It is a polish publisher offering specialized business and legal content in online and offline media. It presents daily commentaries and analyses relating to political, economic and legal events. It offers different services: Compress SA, specializing in creating comprehensive PR strategies and communication solutions. | $11 | -50% | $19M | $16M | ||||
| Attica Publications is a Greek media group established as a magazine publisher in 1994 and listed on the Athens Stock Exchange in 1999. Its publishing operations produce general-interest and specialist magazines for readers in Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia. The portfolio covers subjects including lifestyle, health and fitness, television and home decoration through original and licensed international titles. It earns revenue from publication sales, advertising and associated media activities. The group also operates radio stations and websites and distributes television content, recorded music and other media products. Its radio holdings have included Lampsi FM, Rock FM and Athens Radio DJ, extending its audience beyond print publications. It maintains relationships with international publishers and has held a minority interest in Argos, the Greek magazine and newspaper distribution company. | $1 | -37% | $18M | $20M | ||||
| Poligrafici Printing SpA engages in editing, publishing, and distributing page folders, newspapers, magazines, catalogues, and books in Europe. | $1 | +18% | $17M | $25M | ||||
| Postmedia Network Canada Corp is a holding company. It operates through the Newsmedia segment. The company’s business consists of news and information gathering and dissemination operations, with products offered in local, regional and metropolitan markets in Canada through multiple print, online and mobile platforms. Postmedia’s operations include an extensive distribution network, which also offers distribution services, for advertising flyers and parcels. The combination of these distribution platforms provides audiences with a variety of media through which to access and interact with Postmedia’s content. The breadth of the company’s reach and the diversity of its content enable advertisers to reach target audiences on a local, regional or national scale. | $0 | -61% | $17M | $316M | ||||
| Ihlas Gazetecilik AS is engaged in publishing and printing of newspapers, magazines, books, encyclopedias, brochures and periodicals in Turkish and in foreign languages. | $0 | -55% | $16M | $21M | ||||
| Rebl Group Oyj formerly PunaMusta Media Oyj is a Finland based company involved in the printing business. It business consists of magazine, newspaper and digital printing, large format printing and printing of various promotional products.The company's expertise also includes magazine announcements, page making, banners and other graphic design work. | $1 | -7% | $14M | $33M | ||||
| Hatena Co Ltd provides internet content platform services and content marketing services technology solutions. Its content platform services include the blog, bookmark services, and shared dictionary service. | $5 | -25% | $14M | $8M | ||||
| Educational Development Corp is the United States trade publisher of the line of educational children's books produced in the United Kingdom. Its business activity functions with two reportable segments: PaperPie and Publishing. The Publishing Division segment markets its products to retail accounts, which include books, school supplies, toy and gift stores and museums, through commissioned sales representatives, trade and specialty wholesalers and an internal telesales group. | $1 | -17% | $11M | $16M | ||||
| Median | $3 | -10% | $234M | $284M | 1.1x | 5.8x |
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