In a rare feat, all 10 companies listed on the Publishers Weekly Stock Index had an increase in their share price in March. For the second month in a row, Barnes & Noble posted the biggest gain among PWSI stocks, with its share price up 27.4%; B&N’s stock price was up 41.9% in the first quarter of 2016. Educational Development Corp., which reported record sales for the fiscal year ended Feb. 29, 2016, saw its stock price increase 23.7% in March. After falling 5.7% in February, Amazon’s stock price rebounded last month, rising 9.8%. With the share prices of all 10 stocks listed on the PWSI up in March, the PWSI rose 8.5% in the month, slightly higher than the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which increased 7.1%.

Winners
Company Feb. 29 Mar. 31 Change
Barnes & Noble 9.70 12.36 27.4%
Educational Dev. Corp. 11.34 14.03 23.7%
News Corp 11.41 13.25 16.1%
CBS 48.38 55.09 13.9%
John Wiley 44.00 48.89 11.1%
Amazon 552.52 593.64 9.8%
R.R. Donnelley 15.18 16.40 8.0%
Scholastic 35.03 37.37 6.7%
Pearson 11.83 12.54 6.0%
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 18.91 19.94 5.4%
Publishers Weekly Stock Index 758.83 823.51 8.5%
Dow Jones Aver. 16,516.50 17,685.09 7.1%

Source: Publishers Weekly