VALU vs. SSTK, SCHL, DJCO, MKTW, TRI, MORN, NYT, PSEC, CNNE, and CSWC
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), Cannae (CNNE), and Capital Southwest (CSWC).
Value Line vs. Its Competitors
Shutterstock (NYSE:SSTK) and Value Line (NASDAQ:VALU) are both small-cap publishing companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, profitability and dividends.
Shutterstock pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. Value Line pays an annual dividend of $1.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Shutterstock pays out 121.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Value Line pays out 57.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Shutterstock has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years and Value Line has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years.
Shutterstock has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Value Line has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Shutterstock had 1 more articles in the media than Value Line. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Shutterstock and 1 mentions for Value Line. Shutterstock's average media sentiment score of 1.63 beat Value Line's score of 0.17 indicating that Shutterstock is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Shutterstock currently has a consensus price target of $43.67, indicating a potential upside of 118.66%. Given Shutterstock's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Shutterstock is more favorable than Value Line.
Shutterstock has higher revenue and earnings than Value Line. Value Line is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shutterstock, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Value Line has a net margin of 60.29% compared to Shutterstock's net margin of 4.00%. Value Line's return on equity of 22.63% beat Shutterstock's return on equity.
82.8% of Shutterstock shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.3% of Value Line shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.0% of Shutterstock shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Value Line shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Shutterstock beats Value Line on 12 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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This page (NASDAQ:VALU) was last updated on 7/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
