SSTK vs. SCHL, DJCO, MKTW, VALU, TRI, MORN, NYT, MARA, PEGA, and STNE
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), Marathon Digital (MARA), Pegasystems (PEGA), and StoneCo (STNE).
Scholastic (NASDAQ:SCHL) and Shutterstock (NYSE:SSTK) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
In the previous week, Shutterstock had 2 more articles in the media than Scholastic. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Shutterstock and 2 mentions for Scholastic. Shutterstock's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat Scholastic's score of 1.26 indicating that Scholastic is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Scholastic pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Shutterstock pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Scholastic pays out 55.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Shutterstock pays out 46.5% 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. Scholastic has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Shutterstock has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Shutterstock is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
82.6% of Scholastic shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.8% of Shutterstock shares are held by institutional investors. 18.6% of Scholastic shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 32.0% of Shutterstock shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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 has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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 Shutterstock's net margin of 3.16%. Scholastic's return on equity of 21.14% beat Shutterstock's return on equity.
Scholastic has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shutterstock has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Shutterstock has a consensus target price of $62.50, indicating a potential upside of 64.34%. Given Scholastic's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Shutterstock is more favorable than Scholastic.
Summary
Shutterstock beats Scholastic on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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