Scholastic Corp (NASDAQ: SCHL) on Friday, plunged -6.15% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $28.77. Within the past 52 weeks, SCHL’s price has moved between $15.77 and $31.86.
Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Communication Services sector was 44.15%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 86.46%. With a float of $20.07 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $24.61 million.
Scholastic Corp (SCHL) Insider Activity
Observing investor behavior towards Publishing industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Scholastic Corp is 20.18%, while institutional ownership is 82.42%.
Scholastic Corp (SCHL) Earnings and Forecasts
As on 2/28/2025, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported -0.05 earnings per share (EPS) for the period topping the consensus outlook (set at -0.78) by 0.73. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.74 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 86.46% per share during the next fiscal year.
Scholastic Corp (NASDAQ: SCHL) Trading Performance Indicators
Scholastic Corp (SCHL) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 1.24 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.42. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 15.08.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is -0.20, a number that is poised to hit -0.60 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 1.74 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Scholastic Corp (SCHL)
Compared to the last year’s volume of 0.33 million, its volume of 0.56 million showed improvement in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 47.69%.
During the past 100 days, Scholastic Corp’s (SCHL) raw stochastic average was set at 47.03%, which indicates a significant increase from 11.31% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 1.41 in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 0.95 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $28.59, while its 200-day Moving Average is $23.38. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $29.34 in the near term. At $31.69, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $33.17. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $25.52, it is likely to go to the next support level at $24.04. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $21.69.
Scholastic Corp (NASDAQ: SCHL) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 678.75 million based on 25,139K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 1,626 M and income totals -1,900 K. The company made 225,600 K in profit during its latest quarter, and -71,100 K in sales during its previous quarter.
