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MKTW vs. SCHL, SSTK, DJCO, VALU, TRI, MORN, NYT, MLNK, AMPL, and DGNX

Should you be buying MarketWise stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MarketWise include Scholastic (SCHL), Shutterstock (SSTK), Daily Journal Corp. (S.C.) (DJCO), Value Line (VALU), Thomson Reuters (TRI), Morningstar (MORN), New York Times (NYT), MeridianLink (MLNK), Amplitude (AMPL), and Diginex (DGNX).

MarketWise vs. Its Competitors

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

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Scholastic$1.63B0.43-$1.90M-$0.04-623.75
MarketWise$408.70M0.74$7.06M$3.016.15

Scholastic pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. MarketWise pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Scholastic pays out -2,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MarketWise pays out 26.6% 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. MarketWise has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. MarketWise is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

In the previous week, Scholastic had 3 more articles in the media than MarketWise. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Scholastic and 2 mentions for MarketWise. Scholastic's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat MarketWise's score of 0.00 indicating that Scholastic is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Scholastic
2 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
MarketWise
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

MarketWise has a net margin of 1.64% compared to Scholastic's net margin of -0.12%. Scholastic's return on equity of 1.39% beat MarketWise's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Scholastic-0.12% 1.39% 0.67%
MarketWise 1.64%-2.66%2.30%

82.6% of Scholastic shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.0% of MarketWise shares are held by institutional investors. 17.6% of Scholastic shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 29.3% of MarketWise shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Scholastic has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MarketWise has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

MarketWise beats Scholastic on 9 of the 16 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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MKTW vs. The Competition

MetricMarketWiseTechnology Services IndustryBusiness SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$300.49M$2.45B$14.73B$9.37B
Dividend Yield4.32%1.62%2.86%4.12%
P/E Ratio6.1519.4024.3723.80
Price / Sales0.7435.5040.7596.33
Price / Cash20.7543.3826.1156.59
Price / Book-1.365.085.085.54
Net Income$7.06M$33.55M$196.77M$259.97M
7 Day Performance-8.77%-4.62%-4.30%-4.67%
1 Month Performance-7.19%-0.51%-1.92%3.28%
1 Year Performance-8.32%45.78%27.74%17.92%

MarketWise Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MKTW
MarketWise
2.9509 of 5 stars
$18.52
+0.7%
N/A-8.3%$300.49M$408.70M6.15800News Coverage
SCHL
Scholastic
4.0024 of 5 stars
$26.22
-1.8%
N/A-17.7%$750.30M$1.63B-655.506,660High Trading Volume
SSTK
Shutterstock
4.3423 of 5 stars
$19.85
-1.5%
$43.67
+120.0%
-52.7%$710.36M$935.26M18.211,715News Coverage
Earnings Report
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Upgrade
Gap Down
DJCO
Daily Journal Corp. (S.C.)
0.8437 of 5 stars
$405.66
-0.9%
N/A-7.3%$564.06M$69.93M5.29320News Coverage
VALU
Value Line
3.0482 of 5 stars
$38.11
-3.9%
N/A-7.6%$373.28M$37.49M16.71140Earnings Report
TRI
Thomson Reuters
3.8977 of 5 stars
$200.78
-1.3%
$193.00
-3.9%
+27.7%$90.46B$7.27B41.0624,400News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
MORN
Morningstar
4.3296 of 5 stars
$282.56
+1.6%
$361.67
+28.0%
-12.8%$11.75B$2.28B31.7511,085News Coverage
Earnings Report
NYT
New York Times
3.4447 of 5 stars
$52.09
-1.0%
$56.40
+8.3%
+0.5%$8.58B$2.59B28.315,900Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
MLNK
MeridianLink
2.403 of 5 stars
$16.71
flat
$19.42
+16.2%
-31.1%$1.29B$316.30M-43.97620Analyst Upgrade
AMPL
Amplitude
2.6877 of 5 stars
$13.04
+2.5%
$13.50
+3.5%
+45.5%$1.26B$299.27M-17.16740Upcoming Earnings
Gap Down
DGNX
Diginex
N/A$54.02
+5.4%
N/AN/A$1.18BN/A0.0021Gap Up

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This page (NASDAQ:MKTW) was last updated on 8/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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