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Scholastic (SCHL) Competitors

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

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 (WLYB), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), and Educational Development (EDUC).

Scholastic vs. Its Competitors

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

Shutterstock has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scholastic has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Shutterstock has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Scholastic. Scholastic 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
Shutterstock$1.01B0.66$35.93M$1.8110.33
Scholastic$1.63B0.43-$1.90M-$0.04-623.75

Shutterstock presently has a consensus price target of $43.67, suggesting a potential upside of 133.64%. Given Shutterstock's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, 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

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 3.2%. Shutterstock pays out 72.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Scholastic pays out -2,000.0% 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. 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.

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

Shutterstock has a net margin of 6.36% compared to Scholastic's net margin of -0.12%. Shutterstock's return on equity of 18.42% beat Scholastic's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Shutterstock6.36% 18.42% 7.48%
Scholastic -0.12%1.39%0.67%

In the previous week, Shutterstock had 9 more articles in the media than Scholastic. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Shutterstock and 6 mentions for Scholastic. Scholastic's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Shutterstock's score of 0.50 indicating that Scholastic is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Shutterstock
7 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Scholastic
3 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Shutterstock beats Scholastic on 15 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

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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SCHL vs. The Competition

MetricScholasticPUBLSHG IndustryStaples SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$693.26M$1.21B$15.69B$9.53B
Dividend Yield3.24%4.52%3.20%4.09%
P/E Ratio-623.7516.6218.5223.83
Price / Sales0.430.8145.5866.13
Price / Cash5.595.8314.5057.96
Price / Book0.741.615.885.54
Net Income-$1.90M$40.29M$690.35M$259.28M
7 Day Performance-6.55%-2.59%-5.25%-4.67%
1 Month Performance13.77%-2.64%-3.77%4.37%
1 Year Performance-17.71%-16.10%-0.29%17.90%

Scholastic Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SCHL
Scholastic
4.0015 of 5 stars
$24.95
+1.1%
N/A-17.6%$693.26M$1.63B-623.756,660
SSTK
Shutterstock
4.3399 of 5 stars
$18.37
+1.1%
$43.67
+137.7%
-53.9%$647.54M$935.26M16.851,715News Coverage
Earnings Report
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Upgrade
Gap Down
DJCO
Daily Journal Corp. (S.C.)
0.8435 of 5 stars
$398.69
-0.1%
N/A-12.1%$549.00M$73.25M5.20320News Coverage
High Trading Volume
VALU
Value Line
3.0581 of 5 stars
$38.84
+2.9%
N/A-16.1%$365.48M$37.49M17.04140Earnings Report
MKTW
MarketWise
2.9562 of 5 stars
$18.22
+0.7%
N/A-16.6%$295.71M$408.70M6.05800News Coverage
TRI
Thomson Reuters
3.9033 of 5 stars
$203.43
-2.8%
$190.00
-6.6%
+26.6%$91.66B$7.27B41.6024,400News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
High Trading Volume
MORN
Morningstar
4.3256 of 5 stars
$282.80
-2.0%
$361.67
+27.9%
-13.3%$11.95B$2.28B31.7811,085Earnings Report
High Trading Volume
NYT
New York Times
3.4537 of 5 stars
$53.31
+0.0%
$56.40
+5.8%
-2.0%$8.69B$2.59B28.985,900Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
WLYB
John Wiley & Sons
3.0791 of 5 stars
$40.12
-5.5%
N/A-20.7%$2.14B$1.68B26.229,500Positive News
Short Interest ↓
WLY
John Wiley & Sons
2.2901 of 5 stars
$39.34
+0.1%
N/A-19.0%$2.10B$1.68B25.715,200News Coverage
Positive News
Short Interest ↑
EDUC
Educational Development
1.1787 of 5 stars
$1.35
+1.5%
N/A-44.4%$11.54M$31.30M-2.20170Trending News
Gap Up

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This page (NASDAQ:SCHL) was last updated on 8/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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