Scholastic Corporation (SCHL)

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Scholastic Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Scholastic Corporation's 8 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.7 billion in fiscal 2019 to $1.6 billion in fiscal 2026, down 0.6% a year; it rose in 3 of 7 years; the deepest fall was 21% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 5 of 8 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-05-31, Scholastic Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 11.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 100% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 8 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-05 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-05-31, Scholastic Corporation earned about 8 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 52 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 57 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 12.3% over the year (the filed statements).

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Scholastic Corporation's standing among 21 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.6 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the bottom 45% by size; a net margin of 3.6% ranks in the top 50%; revenue growth of -2.4% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 36% (its annual reports).

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Scholastic Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Peter, Warwick (PRESIDENT & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2021-08-04, 5.3 years (bottom 43% of its family); the 16 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 4.8 years (bottom 25%); 6 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 16 people in charge now (bottom 34%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Scholastic Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $135 million against debt of $75 million leaves 3.5% of its assets as net cash, top 34% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 3.2% of revenue (bottom 31%); a gross margin of 56.4% (top 17%) (its annual report).

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Scholastic Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew -2.4% a year over the last three filed years against -0.6% over all 8, slowing (bottom 48% of its family); the newest year grew -2.7% (bottom 26%); capital spending grew 38.7% a year (top 17%) (its annual reports). Scholastic Corporation reported 4 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Childrens Book Publishing and Distribution at $964 million, Education Solutions at $310 million, International at $280 million, and 1 more. 3 of 4 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 60% of revenue (its annual report).

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Scholastic Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.6 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 0.4% below the $1.6 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 33% of its family); net income of $57 million against a prior three-year average of $32 million (top 37%); a net margin of 3.6% against 1.9% before (top 42%) (its annual reports).