Scholastic Corporation (SCHL): Price and Financial Metrics

SCHL POWR Grades

• Momentum is the dimension where SCHL ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 94.88% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for SCHL is in Momentum, which has been heading up over the past 52 weeks.
• SCHL's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 29.58% of US stocks).

SCHL Stock Summary

• With a price/earnings ratio of 264.28, Scholastic Corp P/E ratio is greater than that of about 97.31% of stocks in our set with positive earnings.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -45.86%, Scholastic Corp's debt growth rate surpasses merely 10.81% of about US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for SCHL comes in at 12.41% -- higher than that of 83.92% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Scholastic Corp, a group of peers worth examining would be SRCL, USFD, MDJH, ODP, and PPSI.
• SCHL's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Scholastic Corp's official web site, go to www.scholastic.com.

SCHL Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Consumer Cyclical stock, SCHL's price/sales ratio is 35.71% lower, now standing at 0.9.
• Over the past 243 months, SCHL's EV/EBIT ratio has gone down 108.6.
• Over the past 243 months, SCHL's price/earnings ratio has gone down 142.9.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for SCHL.

SCHL Growth Metrics

• The year over year price growth rate now stands at 48.07%.
• Its 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -28.55%.
• The 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -8.42%.

Over the past 52 months, SCHL's revenue has gone down $396,700,000.

The table below shows SCHL's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-09-30	1,344.9	160.6	4.6
2021-06-30	1,300.3	71	-11
2021-03-31	1,182.9	-5.4	-31.6
2020-12-31	1,278.7	7.9	-61
2020-09-30	1,469.7	73.7	-25.1
2020-06-30	1,487.1	2.1	-43.8

SCHL's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• SCHL has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 69.73% of graded US stocks.
• SCHL's asset turnover comes in at 0.666 -- ranking 6th of 14 Printing and Publishing stocks.
• ACCO, NYT, and GCI are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with SCHL.

The table below shows SCHL's key quality metrics over time.