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Scholastic (SCHL) Competitors

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SCHL vs. SSTK, DJCO, VALU, MKTW, TRI, MORN, NYT, PSO, WLYB, and WLY

Should you be buying Scholastic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scholastic include Shutterstock (SSTK), Daily Journal (DJCO), Value Line (VALU), MarketWise (MKTW), Thomson Reuters (TRI), Morningstar (MORN), New York Times (NYT), Pearson (PSO), John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), and John Wiley & Sons (WLY).

Scholastic vs.

Shutterstock (NYSE:SSTK) and Scholastic (NASDAQ:SCHL) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and dividends.

Shutterstock received 97 more outperform votes than Scholastic when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.23% of users gave Scholastic an outperform vote while only 56.84% of users gave Shutterstock an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
ShutterstockOutperform Votes
345
56.84%
Underperform Votes
262
43.16%
ScholasticOutperform Votes
248
61.23%
Underperform Votes
157
38.77%

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 insiders. Comparatively, 17.6% of Scholastic shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Shutterstock has a net margin of 4.03% compared to Scholastic's net margin of -0.27%. Shutterstock's return on equity of 20.39% beat Scholastic's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Shutterstock4.03% 20.39% 9.75%
Scholastic -0.27%1.91%1.02%

Shutterstock has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scholastic has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Shutterstock$963.57M0.68$110.27M$1.0917.04
Scholastic$1.59B0.31$12.10M$0.6029.07

Shutterstock pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.1%. Scholastic pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. 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. Scholastic pays out 133.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Shutterstock has increased 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 and Shutterstock both had 4 articles in the media. Shutterstock's average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat Scholastic's score of 0.94 indicating that Shutterstock is being referred to more favorably in the media.

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

Shutterstock currently has a consensus target price of $45.33, indicating a potential upside of 144.07%. Given Shutterstock's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Shutterstock is more favorable than Scholastic.

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

Summary

Shutterstock beats Scholastic on 18 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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SCHL vs. The Competition

MetricScholasticBook publishing IndustryStaples SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$490.08M$3.19B$17.49B$8.39B
Dividend Yield4.46%4.22%3.07%4.10%
P/E Ratio-96.885.8816.3119.70
Price / Sales0.311.274.21121.79
Price / Cash4.346.4316.3934.62
Price / Book0.481.836.144.50
Net Income$12.10M$16.34M$737.42M$248.22M
7 Day Performance-3.33%-2.75%-1.76%-0.80%
1 Month Performance2.34%0.67%1.91%11.52%
1 Year Performance-53.02%3.28%-2.49%8.99%

Scholastic Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SCHL
Scholastic
3.2833 of 5 stars
$17.14
-1.7%
N/A-53.0%$483.06M$1.59B-95.496,880
SSTK
Shutterstock
4.0105 of 5 stars
$18.45
-1.1%
$45.33
+145.7%
-52.6%$650.44M$963.57M18.091,330Positive News
Analyst Forecast
DJCO
Daily Journal
0.5651 of 5 stars
$405.88
-2.5%
N/A+11.1%$558.90M$71.64M7.32320News Coverage
Earnings Report
VALU
Value Line
2.5061 of 5 stars
$39.94
-0.4%
N/A-4.9%$376.00M$35.70M17.00140News Coverage
Positive News
MKTW
MarketWise
0.8241 of 5 stars
$16.79
+3.6%
N/A-42.7%$272.42M$383.22M139.93800
TRI
Thomson Reuters
3.8104 of 5 stars
$193.98
+1.4%
$183.70
-5.3%
+12.5%$87.37B$7.27B39.6724,400Positive News
MORN
Morningstar
3.6403 of 5 stars
$310.65
+0.4%
$361.67
+16.4%
+2.5%$13.12B$2.31B41.0412,200Insider Trade
NYT
New York Times
3.2099 of 5 stars
$55.29
-1.2%
$56.00
+1.3%
+10.8%$9.02B$2.63B31.065,800Trending News
PSO
Pearson
2.5491 of 5 stars
$16.36
+0.9%
$18.00
+10.0%
+38.5%$10.89B$3.55B17.4021,400
WLYB
John Wiley & Sons
N/A$43.87
+0.3%
N/A+8.4%$2.36B$1.70B-48.219,500
WLY
John Wiley & Sons
0.8149 of 5 stars
$43.73
-0.4%
N/A+9.3%$2.35B$1.70B-48.059,500Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:SCHL) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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