Public Comps and Valuation Multiples for Publishing

Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
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Company	Market Cap	Enterprise Value	LTM Revenue	EV/LTM Revenue	EV/LTM EBITDA
News Corp	$16B	$17B	$8.7B	1.9x	11.0x
Wolters Kluwer	$16B	$21B	$7.2B	2.9x	8.4x
Informa	$15B	$19B	$5.6B	3.5x	11.1x
New York Times	$12B	$12B	$3B	3.9x	19.6x
Pearson	$10B	$12B	$4.9B	2.4x	10.4x
Springer Nature	$4.2B	$5.6B	$2.2B	2.5x	6.6x
Jiangsu Phoenix Publishing & Media	$3.5B	$2.5B	$1.8B	1.4x	8.5x
Kadokawa	$3.3B	$2.6B	$1.8B	1.5x	22.9x
Lagardère	$3.1B	$8.2B	$11B	0.7x	5.3x
China South Publishing	$2.7B	$404M	$1.9B	0.2x	1.4x
John Wiley & Sons	$2.6B	$3.3B	$1.7B	1.9x	7.3x
China Literature	$2.5B	$1.4B	$1.1B	1.2x	10.8x
Zhejiang Publishing United Group	$2.3B	$638M	$1.6B	0.4x	2.9x
Shandong Publishing	$2.2B	$1.3B	$1.7B	0.8x	-
Louis Hachette	$2B	$7.1B	$11B	0.6x	4.3x
China Science Publishing	$2B	$1.5B	-	-	-
Xinhua Winshare	$2B	$718M	$1.7B	0.4x	3.0x
TX Group	$1.7B	$1.6B	$1.1B	1.4x	6.2x
Visual China Group	$1.7B	$1.6B	$120M	13.1x	37.4x
Sanoma	$1.6B	$1.7B	$1.5B	1.1x	3.9x
Anhui Xinhua Media	$1.5B	$16M	$1.2B	0.0x	-
Chinese Universe	$1.4B	($466M)	$1.1B	(0.4x)	(3.9x)
China Publishing & Media	$1.4B	$799M	-	-	-
SRMG	$1.4B	$1.6B	$787M	2.0x	36.6x
Changjiang Publishing	$1.4B	$823M	-	-	-
Alma Media	$1.3B		$387M
USA TODAY	$1.2B		$2.2B
Nine Entertainment	$1.1B		$1.5B
Sonaecom	$1B		-
Saregama India	$983M		$108M
Scholastic	$866M		$1.6B
Zhejiang Sunriver Culture	$864M		-
Daily Journal	$817M		-
Bloomsbury Publishing	$698M		$453M
Gruppo Mondadori	$641M		$1.1B
RCS MediaGroup	$563M		$907M
Duzhe Publishing & Media	$447M		-
PRISA	$445M		$1.1B
Vitru Educação	$401M		$454M
D B Corp	$394M		$251M
Future plc	$378M		$963M
Alter Ego Media	$363M		$180M
Orell Fussli	$361M		$349M
Navneet Education	$332M		-
Polaris Media	$304M		-
Grupo Clarín	$301M		-
Ronshin Group	$295M		-
Caltagirone Editore	$287M		-
Caxton and CTP Publishers and Printers	$259M		-
Reach	$245M		$669M
Smiths News	$219M		$1.4B
Gyldendal	$212M		-
Big Medya Teknoloji	$202M		-
WildBrain	$194M		-
Grupo Media Capital	$184M		-
AlphaPolis	$183M		$105M
Roularta	$179M		-
Lee Enterprises	$175M		$562M
Goodheart-Willcox	$172M		-
Byggmästaren	$151M		$432K
Jagran Prakashan	$142M		$202M
Saudi Printing and Packaging	$134M		-
Seven West Media	$130M		-
Keskisuomalainen	$123M		$240M
Ilkka	$122M		$44M
NZME	$121M		$206M
IG Port	$120M		$89M
Edel	$118M		$317M
Vocento	$109M		$391M
Yellow Pages	$108M		$138M
Agora S.A.	$107M		$435M
Bastei Lubbe	$101M		$136M
Gyldendal	$96M		-
KidariStudio	$90M		-
Grandtech CG Systems	$78M		-
Hürriyet	$78M		-
Sports Entertainment Group	$71M		$96M
Postmedia Network Canada	$63M		-
Polskie Towarzystwo Wspierania Przedsiebiorczosci	$60M		-
D&C Media Co.	$56M		-
Time Out Group	$52M		-
Star Media Group	$51M		-
Melhoramentos	$50M		-
Effecten-Spiegel	$46M		-
Reading International	$43M		$203M
Beaglee	$42M		$109M
IMPRESA	$37M		-
Mr. Blue	$26M		-
Gremi Media	$24M		-
YLAB	$23M		-
Attica Publications	$21M		-
Hatena Co	$20M		$26M
ContentreeJoongAng	$19M		$751M
Rebl Group	$17M		$127M
Poligrafici Printing	$17M		-
Aspermont	$13M		$11M
EDC Publishing	$13M		-
Simone	$12M		-
Do Rzeczy	$9M		-
Muza	$8M		-
Atom Educacional	$7M		-
Societa Editoriale Il	$7M		$39M
Vialife	$6M		-
Janosch film & medien	$5M		-
Nashville Records	$5M		-
PMPG Polskie Media	$5M		-
Entreprendre	$5M		-
Grupo El Comercio	$5M		-
Gambero Rosso	$4M		-
Imprimerie Chirat	$3M		-
E-Kiosk	$2M		-
Frontline Corp	$2M		-
Advertigo	$1M		-
GoingPublic Media	$1M		-
Relevance Communication	$1M		-
Schwabenverlag	$1M		-
Lift	$282K		-
Editions du Signe	$147K		-
Chicken Soup for the Soul	$3K		-
Central Urbana	$2K		-
Hoi Publishing	-		-