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Scholastic (SCHL) Competitors

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$19.81 -5.03 (-20.25%)
(As of 12/20/2024 05:45 PM ET)

SCHL vs. SSTK, DJCO, VALU, MKTW, TRI, MORN, NYT, WLYB, WLY, and PSO

Should you be buying Scholastic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scholastic include Shutterstock (SSTK), Daily Journal (DJCO), Value Line (VALU), MarketWise (MKTW), Thomson Reuters (TRI), Morningstar (MORN), New York Times (NYT), John Wiley & Sons (WLYB), John Wiley & Sons (WLY), and Pearson (PSO).

Scholastic vs.

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

Scholastic pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Shutterstock pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Scholastic pays out 142.9% 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 117.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Shutterstock has a net margin of 4.03% compared to Scholastic's net margin of 1.49%. Shutterstock's return on equity of 20.39% beat Scholastic's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Scholastic1.49% 4.32% 2.44%
Shutterstock 4.03%20.39%9.75%

In the previous week, Scholastic had 17 more articles in the media than Shutterstock. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Scholastic and 5 mentions for Shutterstock. Shutterstock's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Scholastic's score of -0.15 indicating that Shutterstock is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

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

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$1.60B0.35$12.10M$0.5635.38
Shutterstock$902.18M1.16$110.27M$1.0229.51

Shutterstock received 91 more outperform votes than Scholastic when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.23% of users gave Scholastic an outperform vote while only 57.85% of users gave Shutterstock an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
ScholasticOutperform Votes
248
61.23%
Underperform Votes
157
38.77%
ShutterstockOutperform Votes
339
57.85%
Underperform Votes
247
42.15%

Shutterstock has a consensus price target of $53.67, indicating a potential upside of 78.29%. Given Shutterstock's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly 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)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67

Scholastic has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shutterstock has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Shutterstock beats Scholastic on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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SCHL vs. The Competition

MetricScholasticBook publishing IndustryStaples SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$557.39M$3.19B$14.03B$9.08B
Dividend Yield3.17%3.73%2.79%4.23%
P/E Ratio35.388.8421.9717.18
Price / Sales0.351.222.66116.95
Price / Cash5.636.9921.1437.86
Price / Book0.551.835.854.78
Net Income$12.10M$16.34M$572.90M$225.60M
7 Day Performance-22.56%-6.41%-1.85%-1.23%
1 Month Performance-21.70%-8.29%-3.05%3.36%
1 Year Performance-48.51%9.78%2.93%16.60%

Scholastic Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SCHL
Scholastic
4.2964 of 5 stars
$19.81
-20.2%
N/A-48.5%$557.39M$1.60B35.386,660Earnings Report
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
SSTK
Shutterstock
3.8762 of 5 stars
$31.75
-1.7%
$53.67
+69.0%
-39.0%$1.11B$902.18M31.671,274Analyst Downgrade
DJCO
Daily Journal
1.1135 of 5 stars
$583.14
+3.2%
N/A+60.0%$802.98M$71.61M17.33350News Coverage
Gap Up
VALU
Value Line
1.8478 of 5 stars
$53.41
+0.0%
N/A+13.2%$503.02M$36.63M22.96140Earnings Report
Positive News
MKTW
MarketWise
3.029 of 5 stars
$0.52
+1.6%
$2.00
+288.3%
-83.7%$167.03M$423.38M4.22578Gap Down
TRI
Thomson Reuters
3.7663 of 5 stars
$167.67
-0.3%
$175.20
+4.5%
+13.6%$75.44B$7.16B33.1125,600Positive News
MORN
Morningstar
3.2117 of 5 stars
$355.46
+0.7%
$360.67
+1.5%
+20.8%$15.24B$2.22B46.6211,334Analyst Downgrade
NYT
New York Times
3.2961 of 5 stars
$56.11
+1.9%
$54.83
-2.3%
+15.2%$9.20B$2.43B33.185,900Dividend Announcement
WLYB
John Wiley & Sons
2.2233 of 5 stars
$46.76
flat
N/A+33.1%$2.53B$1.87B-51.389,500Dividend Increase
News Coverage
Positive News
WLY
John Wiley & Sons
2.0704 of 5 stars
$45.97
+0.3%
N/A+32.1%$2.48B$1.87B-50.376,400Positive News
PSO
Pearson
1.8321 of 5 stars
$16.14
+0.3%
N/A+30.4%$10.75B$3.55B0.0018,360

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This page (NASDAQ:SCHL) was last updated on 12/22/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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