Even as quarterly profits recently dipped 16 percent, Reuters reports that John Wiley & Sons Inc (JW.A) expects a brighter 2010: “The company, which recently inked a deal to become the official publication partner for the 2010 winter Olympics, expects 2010 revenue to rise on a currency neutral basis.”
GalleyCat has been tracking the stock performance of the major companies that influence the bookselling business. We created this chart with eight publicly-traded publishing stocks hand-picked by GalleyCat readers–including company name, symbol, current stock price, and price increase or decrease at week’s close.
The McGraw-Hill Co. MHP 29.69 -0.41
Books-A-Million, Inc. BAMM 6.2 -0.11
Borders Group, Inc. BGP 3.2 0.1
Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN 82.96 1.36
Barnes & Noble, Inc. BKS 21.47 -0.57
Wiley John & Sons Inc. JW.A 33.57 -0.25
Scholastic Corporation SCHL 21.11 -0.22
News Corporation NWS 10.66 0.05
Google Inc. GOOG 420.09 6.03