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SSTK vs. SCHL, DJCO, VALU, MKTW, TRI, MORN, NYT, GENI, WB, and YELP

Should you be buying Shutterstock stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shutterstock include Scholastic (SCHL), Daily Journal Corp. (S.C.) (DJCO), Value Line (VALU), MarketWise (MKTW), Thomson Reuters (TRI), Morningstar (MORN), New York Times (NYT), Genius Sports (GENI), Weibo (WB), and Yelp (YELP).

Shutterstock vs. Its Competitors

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

Shutterstock pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Scholastic pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Shutterstock pays out 72.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Scholastic pays out -2,000.0% 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. Shutterstock has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years. Shutterstock is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

82.8% of Shutterstock shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.6% of Scholastic shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.0% of Shutterstock shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.6% of Scholastic shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Shutterstock presently has a consensus target price of $43.67, indicating a potential upside of 114.31%. Given Shutterstock's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Shutterstock is more favorable than Scholastic.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Shutterstock
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.25
Scholastic
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Shutterstock has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scholastic has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Shutterstock has a net margin of 6.36% compared to Scholastic's net margin of -0.12%. Shutterstock's return on equity of 18.42% beat Scholastic's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Shutterstock6.36% 18.42% 7.48%
Scholastic -0.12%1.39%0.67%

Shutterstock has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Scholastic. Scholastic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shutterstock, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Shutterstock$1.01B0.72$35.93M$1.8111.26
Scholastic$1.63B0.38-$1.90M-$0.04-616.25

In the previous week, Shutterstock had 4 more articles in the media than Scholastic. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Shutterstock and 1 mentions for Scholastic. Scholastic's average media sentiment score of 1.73 beat Shutterstock's score of 0.99 indicating that Scholastic is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Shutterstock
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Scholastic
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Summary

Shutterstock beats Scholastic on 15 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 NYSE 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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SSTK vs. The Competition

MetricShutterstockINTERNET CONTENT IndustryComputer SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$761.98M$4.46B$29.51B$20.71B
Dividend Yield6.55%5.70%3.11%3.67%
P/E Ratio11.267.7550.8728.65
Price / Sales0.722.001,556.0269.00
Price / Cash4.1523.6436.7223.59
Price / Book1.234.467.314.32
Net Income$35.93M$121.37M$803.33M$995.66M
7 Day Performance9.02%0.96%1.13%1.91%
1 Month Performance3.06%-3.27%-0.75%-0.54%
1 Year Performance-45.95%5.43%53,045.80%14.76%

Shutterstock Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SSTK
Shutterstock
4.3322 of 5 stars
$20.38
-5.1%
$43.67
+114.3%
-44.3%$761.98M$1.01B11.261,715
SCHL
Scholastic
3.9917 of 5 stars
$25.64
+2.8%
N/A-15.9%$624.99M$1.63B-641.007,090Positive News
DJCO
Daily Journal Corp. (S.C.)
0.7008 of 5 stars
$397.33
+3.3%
N/A+2.0%$529.97M$69.93M5.18320Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
VALU
Value Line
2.4579 of 5 stars
$38.15
+2.1%
N/A-9.7%$351.45M$35.08M17.42140
MKTW
MarketWise
3.7566 of 5 stars
$18.36
-0.9%
N/A-7.6%$300.49M$408.70M6.10800Positive News
Earnings Report
Upcoming Earnings
Gap Up
TRI
Thomson Reuters
4.0359 of 5 stars
$203.82
+1.4%
$193.00
-5.3%
+15.0%$91.85B$7.27B41.6824,400Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Upgrade
MORN
Morningstar
4.505 of 5 stars
$270.40
-0.7%
$361.67
+33.8%
-13.6%$11.51B$2.35B28.8011,085Trending News
Insider Trade
NYT
New York Times
3.4887 of 5 stars
$53.82
+2.9%
$56.40
+4.8%
+7.7%$8.53B$2.59B29.255,900Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
GENI
Genius Sports
2.4144 of 5 stars
$12.05
+3.2%
$12.72
+5.5%
+81.9%$2.51B$510.89M-63.432,400Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
WB
Weibo
1.9069 of 5 stars
$9.62
+1.3%
$9.75
+1.4%
+28.1%$2.30B$1.75B6.974,982News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
YELP
Yelp
3.7873 of 5 stars
$33.84
+2.4%
$34.00
+0.5%
+3.4%$2.11B$1.41B16.275,116Earnings Report

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This page (NYSE:SSTK) was last updated on 8/8/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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