The trading price of Scholastic Corp (NASDAQ:SCHL) floating lower at last check on current market day and closing at $16.07, -0.62% lower than its previous close.
Traders who pay close attention to intraday price movement should know that it has been fluctuating between $15.8886 and $16.19. The company’s P/E ratio in the trailing 12-month period was 26.94, while its 5Y monthly beta was 1.081. In examining the 52-week price action we see that the stock hit a 52-week high of $38.77 and a 52-week low of $15.81. Over the past month, the stock has lost -15.69% in value.
Scholastic Corp, whose market valuation is $428.40 million at the time of this writing, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report on 2025-Mar-19. The dividend yield on the company stock is 4.98%, while its Forward Dividend ratio is 0.80. Investors’ optimism about the company’s current quarter earnings report is understandable. Analysts have predicted the quarterly earnings per share to grow by 0.85 per share this quarter, however they have predicted annual earnings per share of 0.49 for current year and 2.13 for next year.
Analysts have forecast the company to bring in revenue of 494.59M for the current quarter, with the likely lows of 494.59M and highs of 494.59M. From the analysts’ viewpoint, the consensus estimate for the company’s annual revenue is 1.61B.
On the technical side, indicators suggest SCHL has a 100% Sell on average for the short term. According to the data of the stock’s medium term indicators, the stock is currently averaging as a 100% Sell, while an average of long term indicators suggests that the stock is currently 100% Sell.
A quick review shows that SCHL’s price is currently -10.66% off the SMA20 and -16.78% off the SMA50. The RSI metric on the 14-day chart is currently showing 33.33, and weekly volatility stands at 5.12%. When measured over the past 30 days, the indicator reaches 5.54%. Scholastic Corp (NASDAQ:SCHL)’s beta value is currently sitting at 1.10, while the Average True Range indicator is currently displaying 0.92.
To see how Scholastic Corp stock has been performing today in comparison to its peers in the industry, here are the numbers: SCHL stock’s performance was -0.62% at last check in today’s session, and -54.39% in the past year. Scholastic Corp has a P/E ratio of 26.94.
An evaluation of the daily trading volume of Scholastic Corp (NASDAQ:SCHL) indicates that the 3-month average is 417.36K. However, this figure has increased over the past 10 days to an average of 0.41.
Currently, records show that 25.90 million of the company’s shares remain outstanding. The insiders hold 18.36% of outstanding shares, whereas institutions hold 84.59%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of 2025-03-31, stood at 1.65 million shares, resulting in a short ratio of 3.1 at that time. From this, we can conclude that short interest is 1349.00 of the company’s total outstanding shares. It is noteworthy that short shares in March were down slightly from the previous month’s figure, which was 1.86 million. However, since the stock’s price has seen -24.66% year-to-date, investors’ interest is likely to be reignited due to its potential to move even lower.
