Best Publishing Stocks in Communication Services for 2026

Top-ranked Publishing stocks within the Communication Services sector. 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 in Communication Services by composite score

#TickerNameComposite
1601811.SHGXinhua Winshare Publishing and Media Co Ltd80.1
2000719.SHECentral China Land Media Co Ltd74.0
3601900.SHGSouthern Publishing&Media Co72.4
4100220.KOVisang Educati68.3
5601921.SHGZhejiang Publishing & Media Co Ltd67.8
6601098.SHGChina South Publishing & Media Group Co Ltd67.1
7600551.SHGTime Publishing and Media Co Ltd Class A65.1
8600757.SHGChangjiang Publishing & Media Co Ltd64.2
9LBG.LSELBG Media PLC62.1
10SNWS.LSESmiths News PLC61.9
11601928.SHGJiangsu Phoenix Publishing & Media Corp Ltd61.9
120811.HKXinhua Winshare Publishing and Media Co Ltd61.7
13601019.SHGShandong Publishing & Media61.6
14300788.SHECitic Press Corp61.5
15HMVL.NSEHindustan Media Ventures Limited61.1
16Y.TOYellow Pages Limited59.6
17CAT.JSECaxton58.4
18601858.SHGChina Science Publishing & Media Ltd58.1
19PRS.MCPromotora de Informaciones SA57.8
20BMY.LSEBloomsbury Publishing Plc57.6

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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 within the Publishing industry under Communication Services. Use the screener for the full ranked list.