SSTK vs. SCHL, DJCO, MKTW, VALU, TRI, MORN, NYT, PEGA, STNE, and PAGS
Should you be buying Shutterstock stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shutterstock include Scholastic (SCHL), Daily Journal (DJCO), MarketWise (MKTW), Value Line (VALU), Thomson Reuters (TRI), Morningstar (MORN), New York Times (NYT), Pegasystems (PEGA), StoneCo (STNE), and PagSeguro Digital (PAGS).
Shutterstock (NYSE:SSTK) and Scholastic (NASDAQ:SCHL) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
82.8% of Shutterstock shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.6% of Scholastic shares are held by institutional investors. 32.0% of Shutterstock shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.6% of Scholastic shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Shutterstock has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Scholastic. Shutterstock is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Scholastic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Shutterstock has a net margin of 10.71% compared to Scholastic's net margin of 3.16%. Shutterstock's return on equity of 21.14% beat Scholastic's return on equity.
Shutterstock currently has a consensus target price of $62.50, suggesting a potential upside of 70.91%. Given Shutterstock's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Shutterstock is more favorable than Scholastic.
Shutterstock received 87 more outperform votes than Scholastic when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.25% of users gave Scholastic an outperform vote while only 57.84% of users gave Shutterstock an outperform vote.
Shutterstock pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Scholastic pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Shutterstock pays out 46.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Scholastic pays out 55.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Shutterstock is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Shutterstock has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scholastic has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Shutterstock had 4 more articles in the media than Scholastic. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Shutterstock and 4 mentions for Scholastic. Scholastic's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Shutterstock's score of 0.71 indicating that Scholastic is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Shutterstock beats Scholastic on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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