Best Publishing Stocks for 2026

News, professional, and education publishers, plus the data-and-analytics businesses that grew from them, are mid-transition from print to digital subscription revenue.

Publishing (news, professional and education publishers, and the data-and-analytics cohort that grew out of legacy publishing assets) is in a long transition from print to digital subscription revenue. Composite scoring uses the Quality pillar (operating-margin durability) and the Growth pillar (digital revenue mix).

Data as of (updated daily)

Top 20 Publishing stocks by composite score

#TickerNameComposite
1601811.SHGXinhua Winshare Publishing and Media Co Ltd78.0
2601098.SHGChina South Publishing & Media Group Co Ltd74.7
3000719.SHECentral China Land Media Co Ltd71.8
4100220.KOVisang Educati71.5
5600757.SHGChangjiang Publishing & Media Co Ltd69.8
6601900.SHGSouthern Publishing&Media Co67.5
7601019.SHGShandong Publishing & Media66.4
8300788.SHECitic Press Corp65.2
9601921.SHGZhejiang Publishing & Media Co Ltd64.9
10600551.SHGTime Publishing and Media Co Ltd Class A64.8
110811.HKXinhua Winshare Publishing and Media Co Ltd64.4
12LBG.LSELBG Media PLC63.7
13605577.SHGHeilongjiang Publishing & Media Co Ltd63.1
14601928.SHGJiangsu Phoenix Publishing & Media Corp Ltd63.1
15HMVL.NSEHindustan Media Ventures Limited61.6
16SNWS.LSESmiths News PLC61.3
17CAT.JSECaxton58.9
18300148.SHETangel Publishing58.6
19NYT.USNew York Times Company58.5
20PTW.WARWspierania Przedsiebiorczosci58.5

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Methodology: How we score stocks. Data refreshed nightly around 03:30 ET. This page lists the top 20 by composite score; use the screener for the full ranked list.

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