SSTK — Shutterstock

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Trend Edge Setup Score

Trend Edge rates SSTK Bearish with a Setup Score of 21, net conviction 30, actionability 15. How the Setup Score works →

Total Setup Score21
Directional BiasBearish
Net Conviction30
Actionability15 (in range)

Key signals behind this score

About Shutterstock

Shutterstock, Inc. provides platform to connect brands and businesses to high quality content in North America, Europe, and internationally. The company offers image services consisting of photographs, vectors, and illustrations, which is used in visual communications, such as websites, digital and print marketing materials, corporate communications, books, publications, and others; footage services, including video clips, filmed by industry expe… Read full Trend Edge analysis →

Trend Edge Proprietary Indicators

Key Metrics

Current Price$8.49
Market Cap$321M
Float25.1M
Shares Outstanding36.7M
P/E (Forward)42.19
Price/Sales (TTM)0.34
vs. Analyst Target+239.8% to analyst PT
Profit Margin-2.19%
Operating Margin (TTM)-1.48%
Revenue (TTM)$946M
Earnings Growth (YoY)-26.00%
Dividend Rate1.4%
Analyst Target Price$28.85 (4 analysts)

Financial History

Annual Revenue & Earnings History

YearRevenueNet IncomeGross ProfitEBITDA
2020 $667M $71.8M $407M $127M
2021 $773M $91.9M $496M $154M
2022 $828M $76.1M $514M $161M
2023 $875M $110M $522M $204M
2024 $935M $35.9M $539M $161M
2025 $990M $45.5M $576M $183M

Recent Quarterly Revenue & Net Income

QuarterRevenueNet Income
Jun 2025 $267M $29.4M
Sep 2025 $260M $13.4M
Dec 2025 $220M -$16.0M
Mar 2026 $199M -$47.6M

Ownership & Float

Insider Ownership31.3%
Institutional Ownership63.3%
Short Float4.4%
% of All Funds Holding1.89%
Number of Funds Holding155

Current Moving Averages

Trend Edge tracks near-term, medium-term, cyclical, and secular moving averages across weekly and monthly timeframes to identify trend structure at every horizon.

TimeframeSMAValueTrend Context
Weekly10-Week SMA$13.77Near-term / short-term trend
Weekly40-Week SMA$17.73Medium-term trend
Weekly80-Week SMA$19.48Cyclical trend (business cycle)
Weekly200-Week SMA$35.86Secular trend (multi-year)
Monthly10-Month SMA$17.17Near-term monthly trend
Monthly20-Month SMA$19.30Medium-term monthly trend
Monthly40-Month SMA$31.47Secular monthly trend

Volume Shelves — Support & Resistance

Trend Edge identifies volume shelves: price zones where historically elevated trading volume creates structural support or resistance. A volume shelf forms when a disproportionate share of cumulative volume was transacted at a specific price level, making it a high-conviction anchor for future price reactions.

Price LevelTypeVolume RatioAge
$9.60 resistance 1.47x 0 months ago
$19.80 resistance 1.55x 4 months ago
$35.40 resistance 1.29x 20 months ago
$44.00 resistance 1.33x 22 months ago

Historical Earnings Reactions (55 events)

TimeframeAvg ReturnMedianWin RateBestWorst
Gap 0.61% 0.26% 58.18% 11.51% -9.91%
1 Day 1.00% 0.76% 50.91% 18.85% -8.26%
1 Week 1.58% -0.28% 49.09% 23.82% -20.92%
2 Weeks 0.10% -1.37% 43.64% 26.56% -21.17%
1 Month 0.78% 0.55% 52.73% 60.21% -28.46%

Next earnings: August 4, 2026 (21 days away)

Seasonality & Day-of-Week Patterns

Monthly Seasonality

MonthAvg ReturnWin RateSamples
Jan0.8%42.9%14
Feb4.5%57.1%14
Mar-0.6%42.9%14
Apr-3.8%21.4%14
May-1.8%42.9%14
Jun2.1%50.0%14
Jul5.9%46.2%13
Aug-6.8%30.8%13
Sep2.3%38.5%13
Oct3.7%53.8%13
Nov1.3%57.1%14
Dec-0.6%50.0%14

Day-of-Week Tendencies

DayAvg ReturnWin RateSamples
Monday 0.02% 51.4% 648
Tuesday -0.01% 49.2% 709
Wednesday -0.05% 51.2% 707
Thursday 0.10% 50.2% 693
Friday 0.03% 48.7% 692

Top Institutional Holders

Institutional holder breakdown coming soon.

Total institutional ownership: 63.3%

Insider Transactions — Smart Summary

Total insider ownership: 31.3%

Founder-led management: Jon Oringer (Founder & Executive Chairman)

Full insider transaction history and smart buy/sell sentiment summary available on Trend Edge.

AI Consult Analysis

Trend Edge's AI Consult feature delivers a comprehensive, multi-layer trade plan for Shutterstock (SSTK) powered by Claude Opus — Anthropic's most capable AI model. The analysis covers five layers: technical analysis (near-term, medium-term, cyclical, and secular trend, momentum, volume shelf support and resistance, breakout and breakdown signals), qualitative analysis (business model, competitive moat, sector dynamics), insider sentiment (buy and sell signals from executive and director transactions), share stats analysis (institutional accumulation, fund positioning, short float squeeze potential), and fundamental analysis (valuation, revenue growth, profit margin, earnings quality).

AI Consult synthesizes all five layers into a single bullish or bearish thesis with explicit entry, exit, stop loss, and take profit levels — giving you a complete, AI-powered trade plan with defined risk/reward. Whether you are building a long position, initiating a short, or looking for a reversal setup, AI Consult identifies the highest-probability signal from the current trend.

Get the full AI Consult analysis for SSTK on Trend Edge →