The PangoBooks NOligarchy Profile
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PangoBooks earns a NOligarchy Score of 89.86 out of 100 — near the top of its sector. That score comes with an important caveat: no lobbying, PAC, executive-donation, CEO pay, stock buyback, fine, or subsidy records have been matched to this company across any source this project tracks, from Q3 2024 through Q2 2026 (8 quarters — the two-year tracking period). That absence may reflect genuine inactivity on all of these fronts, or it may reflect the current limits of what has been linked to PangoBooks in available public records. It is not a confirmed finding either way.
Current Pillar Scores
Political Access
100.0
Wealth Extraction
59.3
Playing by the Rules
100.0
Score history — 23 quarters
Tier bands show where each quarter's score falls — no numeric y-axis needed. The dashed ring marks the year-over-year comparison point. Tap any quarter but the first to see its pillar breakdown.
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Political Access Grade: 100/100. No federal lobbying expenditure, no Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions, and no executive campaign donations appear in any tracked source. Whether that reflects a genuine zero footprint or a data-matching gap has not yet been confirmed.
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Wealth Extraction Grade: 59.6/100. No stock buyback or dividend data is recorded, and no company-specific CEO compensation figures have been matched to PangoBooks. The score reflects both the absence of documented shareholder payouts and the limits of what a private company is required to disclose.
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Playing by the Rules Grade: 100/100. No regulatory fines, legal violations, or public subsidies appear in any tracked source.
PangoBooks ranks 3rd out of 15 companies in the Book retailers and news dealers sector. The sector average score is 83.5 — PangoBooks sits above that benchmark at 89.86. The top of the table is tightly bunched, with most peers scoring in a narrow band around the same range; a lower-scoring outlier at the bottom of the field pulls the sector average down considerably, widening the apparent gap from the top.
The Bottom Line: No Matching Records Found — Not Yet a Verdict
No lobbying, PAC, executive-donation, CEO pay, stock buyback, fine, or subsidy records have been matched to PangoBooks across any source this project tracks during the two-year period from Q3 2024 through Q2 2026. That means there is no documented act of excess to identify as the sharpest imbalance — but equally no confirmed finding of compliance or restraint. What the record shows is the current limit of what is publicly linkable to this company. As tracking coverage expands, that picture may change.
No Record Matched in Washington
Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) filings show no registered lobbying activity, no retained outside firms, and no issue areas on record. Federal Election Commission (FEC) records show no executive donations to federal candidates or party committees, and no PAC has been established in the company’s name. These are confirmed data-source queries — whether unmatched records exist elsewhere is not something the current tracking can determine.
PangoBooks operates in the book retail space, a corner of commerce that touches issues ranging from consumer data privacy and postal rates to secondary-market resale rights — all areas where larger rivals have historically deployed lobbyists to shape the rules in their favor. Whether PangoBooks has any presence in those debates is not visible in the current record.
EXHIBIT — THE RESERVED SEAT
$0 in lobbying · $0 in PAC money
PangoBooks filed no federal lobbying and ran no corporate PAC in this window — the reserved seat at the witness table sits empty.
A Pay Gap the Public Cannot Measure
PangoBooks is a private company, and private companies are not required to publish what their chief executive earns relative to their lowest-paid workers. No company-specific CEO compensation figures have been matched to PangoBooks in any tracked source, and no stock buyback or dividend data appears for the covered period.
The best available figure is 182:1, based on AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch industry benchmarks for comparable companies in this sector, according to AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch. That is a sector-level estimate, not a PangoBooks-specific figure, and no dollar amount can responsibly be attached to it. The actual internal pay gap is not publicly disclosed, and because no buyback or dividend figures are on record, no per-worker raise calculation is possible either. What happens inside PangoBooks’ pay structure remains invisible to anyone outside the company.
No Violations on Record — but the Record Is Incomplete
No regulatory fines, legal violations, or public subsidies appear in any tracked source for the period covered. That absence means there is no documented pattern of infractions to analyze and no government grants to contrast against penalties. But the current state of available records does not confirm a clean regulatory history — it reflects what has been matched to this company so far. The picture may look different as more records are linked.