SCHL vs. SSTK, DJCO, MKTW, VALU, HMHC, JW.A, TRI, MORN, NYT, and WLY
Should you be buying Scholastic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scholastic include Shutterstock (SSTK), Daily Journal (DJCO), MarketWise (MKTW), Value Line (VALU), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMHC), John Wiley & Sons (JW.A), Thomson Reuters (TRI), Morningstar (MORN), New York Times (NYT), and John Wiley & Sons (WLY).
Shutterstock (NYSE:SSTK) and Scholastic (NASDAQ:SCHL) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation and profitability.
Shutterstock has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
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 company insiders. Comparatively, 18.6% of Scholastic shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Shutterstock received 87 more outperform votes than Scholastic when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.25% of users gave Scholastic an outperform vote while only 57.84% of users gave Shutterstock an outperform vote.
Shutterstock has a net margin of 10.71% compared to Shutterstock's net margin of 3.16%. Scholastic's return on equity of 21.14% beat Shutterstock's return on equity.
Shutterstock currently has a consensus price target of $62.50, suggesting a potential upside of 53.90%. Given Scholastic's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Shutterstock is more favorable than Scholastic.
Shutterstock pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Scholastic pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Shutterstock pays out 46.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Scholastic pays out 55.2% 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 increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years and Scholastic has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Shutterstock is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Shutterstock has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scholastic has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Shutterstock had 15 more articles in the media than Scholastic. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Shutterstock and 3 mentions for Scholastic. Shutterstock's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Scholastic's score of 0.87 indicating that Scholastic is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Shutterstock beats Scholastic on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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