Industry Stocks: September Performances
by Staff -- Publishers Weekly, 10/10/2005
Company
Aug. 31
Sept. 30
% Change
Winners
LeapFrog
13.60
14.77
8.6%
Amazon.com
42.70
45.30
6.1
Banta Co.
48.95
50.89
4.0
Audible
12.00
12.29
2.4
Losers
Books-A-Million
10.29
9.00
-12.5%
Thomas Nelson
20.54
18.76
-8.7
Franklin Elec. Pub.
5.02
4.59
-8.5
Educational Dev. Corp.
10.05
9.31
-7.4
John Wiley & Sons
43.65
41.74
-4.4
Publishers Weekly
Stock Index
522.73
519.49
-0.6%
Dow Jones Average
10,481.60
10,568.70
0.8%
September was a lackluster month for both the Publishers Weekly Stock Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average, with the PWSI dipping 0.6%, while the Dow inched ahead 0.8%. Stock prices fell at 15 companies in September, while rising at only seven. A combination of a profit warning and the possibility of being delisted from Nasdaq combined to drop Books-A-Million's stock price by 12.5% in September, the steepest decline in the month. LeapFrog's stock price had its strongest showing in some time, and had the biggest gain in September, at 8.6%
Source: Reed Business Information
