Industry Stocks: June Performances
by Staff -- Publishers Weekly, 7/7/2003
| Company | May 30 | June 30 | % Change |
| Winners | |||
| Franklin Electronic Publishers | 3.35 | 4.00 | 20.0% |
| Advanced Marketing Services | 11.20 | 13.00 | 16.1 |
| Leapfrog | 28.93 | 31.81 | 10.0 |
| Thomas Nelson | 11.60 | 12.50 | 7.8 |
| Borders Group | 16.45 | 17.61 | 7.1 |
| Losers | |||
| Banta | 34.27 | 32.37 | -5.5% |
| Scholastic | 31.13 | 29.78 | -4.3 |
| Barnes & Noble | 23.80 | 23.05 | -3.1 |
| McGraw-Hill | 63.21 | 62.00 | -1.9 |
| Reed plc | 34.35 | 33.69 | -1.9 |
| Publishers Weekly | |||
| Stock Index | 435.35 | 443.99 | 2.0% |
| Dow Jones Average | 8,850.26 | 8,985.44 | 1.5% |
| It was another winning month for the Publishers Weekly Stock Index, although the 2% increase in June was well below the 9.2% posted in May. Fifteen companies had a stock increase in the month while prices fell at seven companies, and the PWSI once again outperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which had a 1.5% increase. Franklin Electronic Publishers, which made a series of deals in June, saw its stock price rise 20%, to $4 per share, the minimum amount necessary to appear on the PWSI. Two other stocks that had strong months, but whose stock price remains below $4, were Barnes & Noble.com, whose stock price jumped 62%, to $2.35 per share, and Books-A-Million, whose shares rose 17%, to $2.77. Banta had the largest decline in price in the month, 5.5%, while Scholastic's stock, the success of Harry Potter notwithstanding, fell 4.3%. | |||
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