SSTK vs. SCHL, DJCO, VALU, MKTW, TRI, MORN, NYT, WB, GENI, 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), Weibo (WB), Genius Sports (GENI), 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 investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
Shutterstock currently 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, research analysts plainly believe Shutterstock is more favorable than Scholastic.
Shutterstock pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Scholastic pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. 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 held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.6% of Scholastic shares are held by institutional investors. 32.0% of Shutterstock shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.8% of Scholastic shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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.
Shutterstock has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scholastic has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Shutterstock had 2 more articles in the media than Scholastic. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Shutterstock and 9 mentions for Scholastic. Scholastic's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Shutterstock's score of 0.85 indicating that Scholastic is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
Summary
Shutterstock beats Scholastic on 15 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 SSTK and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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This page (NYSE:SSTK) was last updated on 8/29/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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