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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 superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability, dividends, earnings and media sentiment.

Value Line has a net margin of 61.09% compared to Shutterstock's net margin of 6.36%. Value Line's return on equity of 21.35% beat Shutterstock's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Value Line61.09% 21.35% 14.76%
Shutterstock 6.36%18.42%7.48%

Value Line pays an annual dividend of $1.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Shutterstock pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Value Line pays out 57.5% 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.

Value Line has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shutterstock has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Shutterstock had 7 more articles in the media than Value Line. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Shutterstock and 5 mentions for Value Line. Value Line's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Shutterstock's score of 0.01 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
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Shutterstock
1 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

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

Shutterstock has a consensus price target of $40.50, indicating a potential upside of 56.95%. Given Shutterstock's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly 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)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
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$35.08M10.47$20.69M$2.2617.27
Shutterstock$1.01B0.91$35.93M$1.8114.26

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

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding VALU and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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$367.18M$13.07B$254.98B$10.76B
Dividend Yield3.35%6.48%5.56%4.83%
P/E Ratio17.2724.8521.3228.61
Price / Sales10.477.2965.94190.75
Price / Cash16.6115.1822.2960.64
Price / Book3.682.7818.276.60
Net Income$20.69M$567.68M$1.02B$276.84M
7 Day Performance1.48%0.59%544.31%1.83%
1 Month Performance3.20%-0.03%715.74%2.37%
1 Year Performance-23.67%5.80%1,471.53%33.50%

Value Line Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VALU
Value Line
2.0953 of 5 stars
$39.02
+1.9%
N/A-21.9%$367.18M$35.08M17.27140Dividend Announcement
SSTK
Shutterstock
4.0365 of 5 stars
$22.58
+5.8%
$43.67
+93.4%
-14.9%$757.02M$935.26M12.481,715
SCHL
Scholastic
4.4142 of 5 stars
$28.03
-0.2%
$37.00
+32.0%
+15.0%$706.40M$1.63B-42.477,090
DJCO
Daily Journal Corp. (S.C.)
0.9893 of 5 stars
$423.20
+1.5%
N/A-13.3%$574.55M$69.93M6.03320High Trading Volume
MKTW
MarketWise
3.1113 of 5 stars
$14.19
+2.5%
$20.00
+40.9%
+10.6%$226.58M$408.70M5.18800
TRI
Thomson Reuters
4.164 of 5 stars
$152.55
+0.7%
$202.82
+33.0%
-2.2%$68.49B$7.32B31.2024,400Positive News
MORN
Morningstar
4.5857 of 5 stars
$225.97
+0.3%
$355.00
+57.1%
-36.2%$9.50B$2.28B24.0611,085Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↓
NYT
New York Times
4.364 of 5 stars
$55.08
+0.8%
$60.33
+9.5%
+4.7%$8.90B$2.59B28.395,900Trending News
PSEC
Prospect Capital
1.0285 of 5 stars
$2.78
+4.1%
$2.50
-10.1%
-48.3%$1.24B$719.44M-2.072,019Positive News
CSWC
Capital Southwest
3.1236 of 5 stars
$20.14
+3.4%
$24.30
+20.7%
-19.5%$1.08B$204.44M12.2120
CNNE
Cannae
4.4916 of 5 stars
$18.54
+2.6%
$24.00
+29.4%
-1.6%$1.01B$452.50M-2.777,317News Coverage
Positive News
Short Interest ↓

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This page (NASDAQ:VALU) was last updated on 10/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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