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Scholastic (SCHL) Competitors

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$19.09 +0.67 (+3.64%)
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SCHL vs. SSTK, DJCO, VALU, MKTW, TRI, MORN, NYT, PSO, WLY, and WLYB

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 (WLY), and John Wiley & Sons (WLYB).

Scholastic vs.

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

Shutterstock has a consensus price target of $45.33, suggesting a potential upside of 170.16%. Given Shutterstock's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Shutterstock is more favorable than Scholastic.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Scholastic
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 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Scholastic$1.59B0.34$12.10M$0.6031.82
Shutterstock$935.26M0.63$110.27M$1.0116.61

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
Scholastic-0.27% 1.91% 1.02%
Shutterstock 4.03%20.39%9.75%

82.6% of Scholastic shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.8% of Shutterstock shares are held by institutional investors. 17.6% of Scholastic shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.0% of Shutterstock shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

In the previous week, Shutterstock had 5 more articles in the media than Scholastic. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Shutterstock and 1 mentions for Scholastic. Shutterstock's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Scholastic's score of 0.75 indicating that Shutterstock is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

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

Shutterstock received 94 more outperform votes than Scholastic when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.23% of users gave Scholastic an outperform vote while only 56.72% of users gave Shutterstock an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
ScholasticOutperform Votes
248
61.23%
Underperform Votes
157
38.77%
ShutterstockOutperform Votes
342
56.72%
Underperform Votes
261
43.28%

Scholastic has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shutterstock has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Scholastic pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Shutterstock pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. 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 pays out 130.7% 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

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$536.45M$3.19B$17.34B$8.04B
Dividend Yield4.37%4.30%2.92%4.22%
P/E Ratio-106.055.6815.6318.83
Price / Sales0.341.294.13106.72
Price / Cash4.346.4316.3934.62
Price / Book0.531.916.294.33
Net Income$12.10M$16.34M$731.54M$247.97M
7 Day Performance7.98%2.63%2.78%3.18%
1 Month Performance5.82%1.57%1.88%8.13%
1 Year Performance-47.19%3.53%-2.75%5.01%

Scholastic Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SCHL
Scholastic
4.2478 of 5 stars
$19.09
+3.6%
N/A-46.9%$536.45M$1.59B-106.056,880Positive News
SSTK
Shutterstock
3.9637 of 5 stars
$16.92
-0.5%
$45.33
+167.9%
-59.8%$590.37M$935.26M16.591,330News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
DJCO
Daily Journal
0.7087 of 5 stars
$377.65
-0.9%
N/A+5.9%$520.02M$71.64M6.81320Positive News
VALU
Value Line
2.5918 of 5 stars
$41.18
+6.2%
N/A+9.4%$387.67M$35.70M17.52140Short Interest ↓
Positive News
MKTW
MarketWise
1.9822 of 5 stars
$12.82
-3.8%
N/A-59.2%$208.00M$408.70M106.84800Dividend Announcement
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
Positive News
TRI
Thomson Reuters
3.8535 of 5 stars
$182.41
+0.4%
$177.80
-2.5%
+13.2%$82.16B$7.26B37.3024,400Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Positive News
MORN
Morningstar
4.2521 of 5 stars
$278.74
-0.7%
$366.67
+31.5%
+0.8%$11.94B$2.28B36.8212,200Earnings Report
Analyst Upgrade
Short Interest ↑
NYT
New York Times
3.4656 of 5 stars
$51.37
+0.3%
$56.00
+9.0%
+17.6%$8.39B$2.59B28.865,800Upcoming Earnings
PSO
Pearson
2.7099 of 5 stars
$15.79
+0.6%
$18.00
+14.0%
+30.6%$10.51B$3.55B16.8021,400News Coverage
WLY
John Wiley & Sons
0.9025 of 5 stars
$43.78
+0.5%
N/A+15.7%$2.36B$1.70B-48.119,500News Coverage
Positive News
WLYB
John Wiley & Sons
1.1685 of 5 stars
$43.57
+2.4%
N/A+15.7%$2.35B$1.70B-47.889,500

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This page (NASDAQ:SCHL) was last updated on 5/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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