Top 41 Contractors in NAICS 511120: Periodical Publishers, FY2025

Parent companies by net contract obligations Oct 1, 2024 – Sep 30, 2025 Code page on GovTribe

The top 10 won 90% of FY2025 NAICS 511120 contract dollars

Ranking facts

Contract obligations
$37,251,123 Net of deobligations, by contracts coded NAICS 511120
Contractors
41 Parent companies with an obligation
Largest contractor
Lexisnexis Special Services Inc $10 million, 26.4% of obligations
Data as of

Contract actions from FPDS (SAM.gov). How the rankings work · Download all 41 rows as CSV · Free to reuse with credit to GovTribe (CC BY 4.0)

Full ranking

Rank Contractor Net obligations Share Trend
1 $10,018,763
Rank history: #31 in FY2021, #4 in FY2022, #1 in FY2023 and #2 in FY2024; up 1 since FY2024.
2
West Publishing Corporation
$7,404,344
Rank history: not on the FY2021–FY2023 lists and #3 in FY2024; up 1 since FY2024.
3 $4,179,861
Rank history: #2 in FY2021, #2 in FY2022, #2 in FY2023 and #1 in FY2024; down 2 since FY2024.
4 $3,820,217
Rank history: #9 in FY2021, #5 in FY2022, #4 in FY2023 and #8 in FY2024; up 4 since FY2024.
5 $2,388,127
Rank history: not on the FY2021 list, #13 in FY2022, #7 in FY2023 and #14 in FY2024; up 9 since FY2024.
6 $2,288,645
Rank history: not on the FY2021–FY2024 lists; new.
7 $1,919,689
Rank history: #8 in FY2021, #7 in FY2022 and not on the FY2023–FY2024 lists; returned.
8
Bloomberg Industry Group Inc.
$1,267,645
Rank history: #8 in FY2021, #7 in FY2022, #5 in FY2023 and #7 in FY2024; down 1 since FY2024.
9 $497,265
Rank history: not on the FY2021–FY2022 lists, #23 in FY2023 and #10 in FY2024; up 1 since FY2024.
10 $493,279
Rank history: #7 in FY2021, #10 in FY2022, #11 in FY2023 and #11 in FY2024; up 1 since FY2024.
11 $416,106
Rank history: not on the FY2021–FY2023 lists and #13 in FY2024; up 2 since FY2024.
12 $371,475
Rank history: not on the FY2021 list, #25 in FY2022, #20 in FY2023 and #16 in FY2024; up 4 since FY2024.
13
Proquest LLC Through Ex Libris USA Inc.
$343,188
Rank history: not on the FY2021–FY2022 lists, #19 in FY2023 and #17 in FY2024; up 4 since FY2024.
14 $284,589
Rank history: not on the FY2021–FY2024 lists; new.
15 $222,924
Rank history: not on the FY2021–FY2024 lists; new.
16 $204,226
Rank history: #12 in FY2021, #12 in FY2022, #16 in FY2023 and #18 in FY2024; up 2 since FY2024.
17 $197,701
Rank history: not on the FY2021 list, #43 in FY2022, #28 in FY2023 and #22 in FY2024; up 5 since FY2024.
18
Rustici Software LLC
$153,913
Rank history: not on the FY2021–FY2023 lists and #24 in FY2024; up 6 since FY2024.
19 $146,700
Rank history: #46 in FY2021, #54 in FY2022, #35 in FY2023 and #25 in FY2024; up 6 since FY2024.
20 $146,410
Rank history: #70 in FY2021, #45 in FY2022, #40 in FY2023 and #26 in FY2024; up 6 since FY2024.
21 $133,225
Rank history: #49 in FY2021, #57 in FY2022, #37 in FY2023 and #27 in FY2024; up 6 since FY2024.
22 $72,967
Rank history: not on the FY2021–FY2023 lists and #46 in FY2024; up 24 since FY2024.
23 $61,259
Rank history: #39 in FY2021, #42 in FY2022, #27 in FY2023 and #38 in FY2024; up 15 since FY2024.
24 $49,497
Rank history: not on the FY2021–FY2022 lists, #56 in FY2023 and #41 in FY2024; up 17 since FY2024.
25 $48,620
Rank history: #5 in FY2021, #9 in FY2022, #15 in FY2023 and not on the FY2024 list; returned.
26 $48,222
Rank history: #94 in FY2021, #94 in FY2022 and not on the FY2023–FY2024 lists; returned.
27 $47,398
Rank history: #53 in FY2021, #62 in FY2022, #50 in FY2023 and #45 in FY2024; up 18 since FY2024.
28
Argus Media Inc.
$41,051
Rank history: not on the FY2021–FY2022 lists, #49 in FY2023 and #36 in FY2024; up 8 since FY2024.
29 $40,480
Rank history: #26 in FY2021, #41 in FY2022, #31 in FY2023 and #33 in FY2024; up 4 since FY2024.
30
Bernhard Arnold & Company Inc Through Value Line Inc.
$28,800
Rank history: not on the FY2021–FY2022 lists, #70 in FY2023 and #53 in FY2024; up 23 since FY2024.
31 $25,845
Rank history: #88 in FY2021, not on the FY2022 list, #74 in FY2023 and #54 in FY2024; up 23 since FY2024.
32 $24,996
Rank history: #82 in FY2021, not on the FY2022 list, #64 in FY2023 and #56 in FY2024; up 24 since FY2024.
33 $24,650
Rank history: #90 in FY2021, #91 in FY2022, #78 in FY2023 and #58 in FY2024; up 25 since FY2024.
34 $20,623
Rank history: not on the FY2021–FY2022 lists, #82 in FY2023 and #61 in FY2024; up 27 since FY2024.
35 $17,612
Rank history: not on the FY2021–FY2022 lists, #90 in FY2023 and #67 in FY2024; up 32 since FY2024.
36 $13,816
Rank history: not on the FY2021–FY2022 lists, #98 in FY2023 and #72 in FY2024; up 36 since FY2024.
37 $9,474
Rank history: not on the FY2021–FY2022 lists, #68 in FY2023 and #49 in FY2024; up 12 since FY2024.
38
Urner Barry Publications Inc.
$8,699
Rank history: #97 in FY2021, #97 in FY2022, #58 in FY2023 and #42 in FY2024; up 4 since FY2024.
39 $3,822
Rank history: not on the FY2021–FY2023 lists and #80 in FY2024; up 41 since FY2024.
40 $2,791
Rank history: #67 in FY2021, #70 in FY2022, #94 in FY2023 and #64 in FY2024; up 24 since FY2024.
41 $1,098
Rank history: not on the FY2021–FY2023 lists and #81 in FY2024; up 40 since FY2024.
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How this ranking works

  • Source: every contract action FPDS records (as published on SAM.gov) in the period, as GovTribe received it.
  • Amounts are net obligations: what was obligated, less what was deobligated. Shares are of $38 million obligated before deobligations, so they never pass 100%.
  • Parent companies: each action counts under the ultimate parent its award record names, or under the awardee when it names none, so no dollar counts twice. An awardee whose own actions mostly name no parent, and that no other company's actions name as their parent, rolls up its SAM.gov registration's chain of parent companies: it counts under the first company there that other companies' actions name as their parent, or under the parent most of a company's own actions name, whichever comes first; with neither, under the highest company in the chain with federal contracts of its own. Joint ventures stay companies of their own. Parents of the same name (Inc., LLC and the like aside) count as one company, since FPDS records a company's parent under more than one UEI over time. GovTribe corrects a few parents and names by hand; see the corrections.
  • Fiscal year 2025 ran Oct 1, 2024 – Sep 30, 2025. The Department of Defense reports its contract actions to FPDS about 90 days late, so a fiscal year is ranked once they're in, in February, and the list doesn't change after.
  • Rank changes compare with FY2024. "New" marks a company outside that period's top 500, and "Returned" one of those that was on an earlier fiscal year's list.
  • Rank lines show each company's rank on every fiscal year's list since FY2021, #1 at the top, on a scale that gives the top of the list more room. A dashed stretch spans years it wasn't on the list. The step from FY2024 takes the color of the rank change beside it.
  • Placeholder recipients FPDS uses when it names no company ("Miscellaneous Foreign Contractors" and the like) aren't ranked.

Quick answers

Who were the top 10 NAICS 511120 contractors in FY2025?

1. Lexisnexis Special Services Inc ($10M), 2. West Publishing Corporation ($7.4M), 3. Ebsco Industries Inc. ($4.18M), 4. Prenax Inc. ($3.82M), 5. Teledyne Flir Unmanned Ground Systems Inc ($2.39M), 6. John Wiley & Sons Inc. ($2.29M), 7. Bloomberg LP ($1.92M), 8. Bloomberg Industry Group Inc. ($1.27M), 9. CQ-Roll Call Inc ($497K), 10. American Chemical Society ($493K).

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