SCHL vs. SSTK, DJCO, VALU, MKTW, TRI, MORN, NYT, WLY, EDUC, and WLYB
Should you be buying Scholastic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scholastic include Shutterstock (SSTK), Daily Journal Corp. (S.C.) (DJCO), Value Line (VALU), MarketWise (MKTW), Thomson Reuters (TRI), Morningstar (MORN), New York Times (NYT), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), Educational Development (EDUC), and John Wiley & Sons (WLYB).
Scholastic vs. Its Competitors
Shutterstock (NYSE:SSTK) and Scholastic (NASDAQ:SCHL) are both small-cap publishing companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
Shutterstock has a net margin of 4.00% compared to Scholastic's net margin of 1.17%. Shutterstock's return on equity of 17.70% beat Scholastic's return on equity.
Shutterstock pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. Scholastic pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. 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 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.
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 beta of 1.15, meaning that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scholastic has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Shutterstock had 1 more articles in the media than Scholastic. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Shutterstock and 2 mentions for Scholastic. Shutterstock's average media sentiment score of 1.76 beat Scholastic's score of 0.60 indicating that Shutterstock is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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, 17.6% of Scholastic shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Shutterstock presently has a consensus target price of $43.67, suggesting a potential upside of 119.54%. Given Shutterstock's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Shutterstock is more favorable than Scholastic.
Summary
Shutterstock beats Scholastic on 17 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NASDAQ:SCHL) was last updated on 7/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
