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Largest Publishing Public Companies in Germany
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
Springer Nature, Edel, Bastei Lubbe, Effecten-Spiegel and Janosch film & medien.
 | 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 four Segments: Research, Education, Health, and Professional. The company operates in the Americas, APAC, Germany, and Other EMEA regions. The majority of revenue is generated from the research segment in America. | $23 | -5% | $5B | $6B | 2.9x | 8.7x | ||
| 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 | +13% | $112M | $191M | 0.6x | 4.6x | ||
| 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. | $8 | -32% | $106M | $103M | 0.8x | 4.4x | ||
| 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. | $14 | -14% | $48M | $32M | 2.2x | 9.8x | ||
| Janosch film & medien AG is involved in license marketing of pictures, books, and movies from the author and artist Janosch. It provides licenses for books, adult books, movies, video clips, and international merchandising. It generates revenue through licensing in the book sector and copyright revenue claims in merchandising. It is therefore assigned to the book and license industry. | $5 | -17% | $6M | $3M | 5.1x | 4.2x | ||
| Schwabenverlag AG is engaged in the printing and publishing of newspapers, magazines, books and calendars, such as the weekly papers 'Katholisches Sonntagsblatt' and ' L'Osservatore Romano'. | $2 | -22% | $1M | $8K | 0.0x | 0.0x | ||
| GoingPublic Media AG is a German media platform for IPOs in German-speaking Europe. It publishes journals, newsletters, books, special guides, and also operates a platform for online newsletters and organizes events. Through its publications and online platform, the company operates as an intermediary between issuers, institutional investors, service providers, and the financial community, by highlighting current going public and being public trends and presenting all relevant capital market-related information. | $4 | -45% | $1M | $274K | 0.1x | 2.2x | ||
| Median | $5 | -17% | $48M | $32M | 0.8x | 4.4x |
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