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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

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

Scholastic has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shutterstock has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Scholastic pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Shutterstock pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Scholastic pays out 133.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 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. 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.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Scholastic$1.59B0.38$12.10M$0.6035.58
Shutterstock$935.26M0.74$35.93M$1.0917.96

Shutterstock has a consensus price target of $43.67, suggesting a potential upside of 123.03%. Given Shutterstock's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Shutterstock is more favorable than Scholastic.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Scholastic
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

In the previous week, Scholastic had 7 more articles in the media than Shutterstock. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Scholastic and 1 mentions for Shutterstock. Shutterstock's average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat Scholastic's score of 0.21 indicating that Shutterstock is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

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

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

Shutterstock has a net margin of 4.00% compared to Scholastic's net margin of 1.17%. Shutterstock's return on equity of 17.70% beat Scholastic's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Scholastic1.17% 4.19% 2.14%
Shutterstock 4.00%17.70%7.49%

Summary

Shutterstock beats Scholastic on 16 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$690.16M$4.52B$27.34B$20.43B
Dividend Yield6.61%5.47%3.13%3.72%
P/E Ratio17.968.0536.9727.80
Price / Sales0.742.262,033.4837.78
Price / Cash3.8520.7134.7718.22
Price / Book1.324.277.234.58
Net Income$35.93M$116.65M$763.56M$982.91M
7 Day Performance3.21%2.60%1.68%1.73%
1 Month Performance10.80%6.51%5.17%4.29%
1 Year Performance-44.09%5.00%52,367.93%14.25%

Shutterstock Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SSTK
Shutterstock
4.5258 of 5 stars
$19.58
-2.0%
$43.67
+123.0%
-43.0%$690.16M$935.26M17.961,715Positive News
SCHL
Scholastic
4.1275 of 5 stars
$20.98
-1.4%
N/A-37.9%$597.71M$1.59B34.976,660
DJCO
Daily Journal Corp. (S.C.)
0.8771 of 5 stars
$422.25
+0.8%
N/A+9.7%$577.17M$69.93M5.50320High Trading Volume
VALU
Value Line
1.7683 of 5 stars
$39.15
+2.3%
N/A-17.2%$360.16M$37.49M17.17140News Coverage
MKTW
MarketWise
3.7878 of 5 stars
$19.79
+4.4%
N/A-12.5%$307.47M$408.70M6.30800Positive News
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
TRI
Thomson Reuters
3.6172 of 5 stars
$201.13
+1.6%
$187.30
-6.9%
+18.4%$90.62B$7.27B41.1324,400
MORN
Morningstar
3.9138 of 5 stars
$313.93
+0.3%
$361.67
+15.2%
+3.4%$13.22B$2.28B35.2711,085Analyst Downgrade
NYT
New York Times
3.795 of 5 stars
$55.99
+0.7%
$56.40
+0.7%
+9.3%$9.07B$2.59B30.435,900Trending News
WB
Weibo
2.2869 of 5 stars
$9.53
-1.4%
$9.75
+2.3%
+15.2%$2.35B$1.75B6.914,982
GENI
Genius Sports
3.4747 of 5 stars
$10.43
+0.5%
$12.35
+18.4%
+85.8%$2.23B$510.89M0.002,400
YELP
Yelp
3.6226 of 5 stars
$34.31
-0.2%
$34.00
-0.9%
-3.5%$2.19B$1.41B16.505,116

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This page (NYSE:SSTK) was last updated on 7/7/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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