SCHL vs. WLYB, WLY, VITL, NAPA, JBSS, AGRO, BRCC, WEST, FDP, and BGS
Should you be buying Scholastic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scholastic include John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), Vital Farms (VITL), Duckhorn Portfolio (NAPA), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), Adecoagro (AGRO), BRC (BRCC), Westrock Coffee (WEST), Fresh Del Monte Produce (FDP), and B&G Foods (BGS). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
John Wiley & Sons (NYSE:WLYB) and Scholastic (NASDAQ:SCHL) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
John Wiley & Sons has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scholastic has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Scholastic has lower revenue, but higher earnings than John Wiley & Sons. John Wiley & Sons is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Scholastic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Scholastic received 245 more outperform votes than John Wiley & Sons when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.25% of users gave Scholastic an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave John Wiley & Sons an outperform vote.
John Wiley & Sons pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Scholastic pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. John Wiley & Sons pays out -48.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Scholastic pays out 55.2% 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. John Wiley & Sons has raised its dividend for 25 consecutive years. John Wiley & Sons is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Scholastic had 3 more articles in the media than John Wiley & Sons. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Scholastic and 2 mentions for John Wiley & Sons. Scholastic's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat John Wiley & Sons' score of 0.71 indicating that John Wiley & Sons is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Scholastic has a net margin of 3.16% compared to Scholastic's net margin of -8.14%. Scholastic's return on equity of 18.83% beat John Wiley & Sons' return on equity.
0.5% of John Wiley & Sons shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.6% of Scholastic shares are held by institutional investors. 29.7% of John Wiley & Sons shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 18.6% of Scholastic shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
John Wiley & Sons and Scholastic tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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