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$20.30 -0.19 (-0.93%)
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MKTW vs. SSTK, SCHL, DJCO, VALU, TRI, MORN, NYT, CRCT, BTBT, and DEFT

Should you be buying MarketWise stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MarketWise include Shutterstock (SSTK), Scholastic (SCHL), Daily Journal Corp. (S.C.) (DJCO), Value Line (VALU), Thomson Reuters (TRI), Morningstar (MORN), New York Times (NYT), Cricut (CRCT), Bit Digital (BTBT), and DeFi Technologies (DEFT).

MarketWise vs. Its Competitors

MarketWise (NASDAQ:MKTW) and Shutterstock (NYSE:SSTK) are both small-cap publishing companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, dividends and profitability.

MarketWise has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shutterstock has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Shutterstock has a consensus target price of $43.67, suggesting a potential upside of 117.03%. Given Shutterstock's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Shutterstock is more favorable than MarketWise.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
MarketWise
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Shutterstock
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.25

Shutterstock has a net margin of 4.00% compared to MarketWise's net margin of 1.64%. Shutterstock's return on equity of 17.70% beat MarketWise's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
MarketWise1.64% -2.66% 2.30%
Shutterstock 4.00%17.70%7.49%

Shutterstock has higher revenue and earnings than MarketWise. MarketWise is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shutterstock, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
MarketWise$383.22M0.86$7.06M$3.016.74
Shutterstock$935.26M0.76$35.93M$1.0918.46

MarketWise pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Shutterstock pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. MarketWise pays out 26.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Shutterstock pays out 121.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. MarketWise has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Shutterstock has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years. Shutterstock is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

In the previous week, Shutterstock had 4 more articles in the media than MarketWise. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Shutterstock and 2 mentions for MarketWise. MarketWise's average media sentiment score of 1.85 beat Shutterstock's score of 0.90 indicating that MarketWise is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
MarketWise
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Shutterstock
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

23.0% of MarketWise shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.8% of Shutterstock shares are held by institutional investors. 29.3% of MarketWise shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.0% of Shutterstock shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Shutterstock beats MarketWise on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding MKTW and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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MKTW vs. The Competition

MetricMarketWiseTechnology Services IndustryBusiness SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$332.45M$2.51B$19.03B$9.50B
Dividend Yield4.06%1.51%2.73%4.01%
P/E Ratio6.7430.8429.5320.05
Price / Sales0.8639.8850.4889.38
Price / Cash22.9645.9727.3958.56
Price / Book-1.495.496.265.87
Net Income$7.06M$33.37M$197.18M$258.55M
7 Day Performance12.15%2.02%1.55%3.73%
1 Month Performance2.53%9.22%5.45%11.75%
1 Year Performance-11.74%32.56%26.56%18.03%

MarketWise Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MKTW
MarketWise
3.4477 of 5 stars
$20.30
-0.9%
N/A-11.7%$332.45M$383.22M6.74800Positive News
SSTK
Shutterstock
3.9481 of 5 stars
$18.37
+1.1%
$43.67
+137.7%
-51.9%$640.56M$935.26M6.911,715News Coverage
Dividend Announcement
SCHL
Scholastic
4.2549 of 5 stars
$21.45
+0.6%
N/A-13.7%$599.12M$1.59B15.566,660Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Downgrade
Gap Up
DJCO
Daily Journal Corp. (S.C.)
0.9118 of 5 stars
$398.69
-0.1%
N/A-11.7%$549.80M$69.93M5.20320News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
VALU
Value Line
2.0518 of 5 stars
$38.84
+2.9%
N/A-19.9%$355.46M$37.49M17.04140Dividend Announcement
TRI
Thomson Reuters
4.1719 of 5 stars
$203.43
-2.8%
$190.00
-6.6%
+25.3%$94.30B$7.27B41.6024,400Positive News
High Trading Volume
MORN
Morningstar
4.5569 of 5 stars
$282.80
-2.0%
$361.67
+27.9%
-13.8%$12.19B$2.28B34.4311,085Upcoming Earnings
High Trading Volume
NYT
New York Times
3.4568 of 5 stars
$53.31
+0.0%
$56.40
+5.8%
-1.4%$8.69B$2.59B25.265,900Trending News
CRCT
Cricut
2.1341 of 5 stars
$5.38
-1.1%
$4.52
-16.0%
-14.3%$1.15B$712.54M17.35830Insider Trade
BTBT
Bit Digital
2.9433 of 5 stars
$3.32
-13.5%
$6.33
+90.8%
-10.8%$1.14B$108.05M-7.0610High Trading Volume
DEFT
DeFi Technologies
N/A$3.30
+0.9%
$6.25
+89.4%
N/A$1.10B$40.30M11.3820Gap Down
High Trading Volume

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This page (NASDAQ:MKTW) was last updated on 7/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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