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Printing & Publishing is ranked #34 of 49 industries by 3-month relative strength, with -6.93% excess return vs the S&P 500 over the last 63 trading days. It sits inside the Communication Services GICS sector and contains 16 stocks.
As of Jul 6, 2026, the printing & publishing industry is ranked #34 of 49by 3-month relative strength versus the S&P 500. It is currently lagging the market, with an excess return of -6.93% over the past 63 trading days.
The 1-month rank is #22, the 6-month rank is #25, and the 1-year rank is #28. Compare these to spot a rotation: a falling 6M rank with a rising 1M rank tells you the industry is turning — money is starting to come back.
The 16 constituents are ranked by relative strength above. See the full constituents table for per-name RS.
How many stocks are in the Printing & Publishing industry?
16 US-listed core stocks (common shares + ADRs) map to the Printing & Publishing Fama-French industry as of 2026-07-06.
What GICS sector does Printing & Publishing belong to?
Printing & Publishing maps to the Communication Services GICS sector.
How is relative strength computed?
Each constituent’s excess log-return versus the S&P 500 over the window, aggregated market-cap-weighted across the industry. Industries above zero are outpacing the broad market; below zero are lagging.
Sharp drop
This group traded 0.9× its typical dollar-volume today and accounted for 0.1% of total market dollar-volume — a read on how much participation is concentrated here right now.
Leadership is partly concentrated. Watch top names but check second-tier setups.
2 of 12 constituents are within 2% of a 52-week high.
A wide move (most names above their MAs) is healthier than a narrow one led by a handful of mega-caps.
Newspaper, periodical, and book publishers plus commercial printing, bookbinding, and prepress trade services (SIC 2700–2799).
Printing & Publishing is one of 49 industries in the Fama-French taxonomy. SIC code-based classification published monthly by Ken French at Dartmouth. The FF49 groupings are intentionally coarser than GICS or SIC alone — useful for market-rotation reads, less useful for fine-grained screening.
FF49 is intentionally coarse — useful for rotation reads, less useful for fine-grained screening. Read the methodology →