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