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VALU vs. SSTK, SCHL, DJCO, MKTW, TRI, MORN, NYT, PSEC, CSWC, and CNNE

Should you be buying Value Line stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Value Line include Shutterstock (SSTK), Scholastic (SCHL), Daily Journal Corp. (S.C.) (DJCO), MarketWise (MKTW), Thomson Reuters (TRI), Morningstar (MORN), New York Times (NYT), Prospect Capital (PSEC), Capital Southwest (CSWC), and Cannae (CNNE).

Value Line vs. Its Competitors

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

In the previous week, Shutterstock had 8 more articles in the media than Value Line. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Shutterstock and 2 mentions for Value Line. Value Line's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Shutterstock's score of 0.83 indicating that Value Line is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Value Line
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Shutterstock
4 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

6.3% of Value Line shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.8% of Shutterstock shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Value Line shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.0% of Shutterstock shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Value Line has a net margin of 58.97% compared to Shutterstock's net margin of 6.36%. Value Line's return on equity of 21.26% beat Shutterstock's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Value Line58.97% 21.26% 14.60%
Shutterstock 6.36%18.42%7.48%

Shutterstock has a consensus price target of $43.67, suggesting a potential upside of 111.59%. Given Shutterstock's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Shutterstock is more favorable than Value Line.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Value Line
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 higher revenue and earnings than Value Line. Shutterstock is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Value Line, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Value Line$35.08M10.40$20.69M$2.1917.70
Shutterstock$935.26M0.78$35.93M$1.8111.40

Value Line has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shutterstock has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Value Line pays an annual dividend of $1.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Shutterstock pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Value Line pays out 59.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Shutterstock pays out 72.9% 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. Value Line has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years and Shutterstock has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years.

Summary

Value Line beats Shutterstock on 10 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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VALU vs. The Competition

MetricValue LineFIN IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$364.73M$13.72B$12.59B$9.84B
Dividend Yield3.48%5.70%5.44%4.03%
P/E Ratio17.7026.8919.4526.60
Price / Sales10.407.4627.15121.29
Price / Cash16.6416.3422.1859.36
Price / Book3.662.642.366.67
Net Income$20.69M$572.25M$1.01B$265.59M
7 Day Performance2.95%3.26%2.27%3.42%
1 Month Performance1.71%1.92%2.27%1.09%
1 Year Performance-5.07%14.74%540.60%23.84%

Value Line Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VALU
Value Line
2.3861 of 5 stars
$38.76
+2.3%
N/A-10.5%$364.73M$35.08M17.70140
SSTK
Shutterstock
4.5093 of 5 stars
$21.27
-3.0%
$43.67
+105.3%
-39.8%$777.95M$935.26M11.751,715News Coverage
SCHL
Scholastic
3.2208 of 5 stars
$25.87
+1.8%
N/A-18.1%$636.51M$1.63B-646.757,090News Coverage
Positive News
DJCO
Daily Journal Corp. (S.C.)
0.6282 of 5 stars
$457.27
-0.9%
N/A-4.9%$635.61M$69.93M6.51320
MKTW
MarketWise
3.6586 of 5 stars
$17.88
-2.0%
$20.00
+11.9%
+10.1%$298.79M$358.12M6.53800Positive News
High Trading Volume
TRI
Thomson Reuters
4.3752 of 5 stars
$176.68
-1.0%
$194.20
+9.9%
+2.3%$79.62B$7.32B36.1324,400Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
MORN
Morningstar
4.8116 of 5 stars
$261.29
-1.0%
$361.67
+38.4%
-14.7%$11.13B$2.28B27.8311,085Insider Trade
NYT
New York Times
4.0984 of 5 stars
$59.62
-0.3%
$60.33
+1.2%
+8.3%$9.73B$2.59B30.735,900Trending News
PSEC
Prospect Capital
0.7946 of 5 stars
$2.85
-0.7%
$3.00
+5.3%
-43.0%$1.28B$861.66M-3.312,019News Coverage
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
CSWC
Capital Southwest
1.9639 of 5 stars
$22.39
-0.7%
$24.30
+8.5%
-8.4%$1.25B$204.44M13.5720News Coverage
Positive News
Dividend Announcement
CNNE
Cannae
4.6779 of 5 stars
$18.57
+0.4%
$24.00
+29.2%
-4.7%$1.04B$452.50M-2.777,317News Coverage
Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:VALU) was last updated on 8/28/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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