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Scholastic Corp

The core activities of Scholastic Corp are in the support services sector. The global support companies gained around 20 percent over the last 10 years. Measured since 2011 the sector is 17 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-2016) there is a minus of 20 percent.

The past year was a profitable year for the Scholastic Corp investors

The period between December 2015 and December 2016 was a profitable period for the investors in Scholastic Corp. The stock gained around 30 percent. Over the period from December 2011 till December 2016 the stock rose on average 73 percent. Scholastic Corp's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were quite similar and moved between 2,15 billion dollars and 1,64 billion dollars. Scholastic Corp's net results between 2011 and 2015 were far from constant and moved between 43,6 million dollars and 15,5 million dollars.

Over the past 5 years the American company paid out dividends. Over the past 5 years Scholastic Corp's dividend yield was at around 2,48 percent per year.

Scholastic Corp financed with relatively low debt

At the end of 2015 the American company's balance sheet was worth 1,82 billion dollars. The total debt of the support company was at the end of 2015 617,4 million dollars, which equals around 33,88 percent of the total balance sheet. The American company's price/earnings-ratio was 41. So the market valued the stock at 41 times the 2015' earnings per share. Many analysts say that based on her price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the American stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the support company's market size (her number of outstanding share times the stock price) equaled around 1,25 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 the American company had around 32,7 million stocks listed.

All the company's financial reports are available here. More information about Scholastic Corp can be found it's website. .