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Scholastic$SCHL · filed: saw revenue fall 2.7% in FY2026 to $1.6BNew shipTrillion Score 566Fall Risk MediumNext year $1.3B–$1.8B sealedCheck ▾Close ▴
What Scholastic filed
Saw revenue fall 2.7% in FY2026 to $1.6 billion, operating margin 1.0% against a 10.5% median for books: publishing or publishing & printing, equity 43.4% of assets. Every figure links to the filing it came from on Scholastic’s card. New ship: no warning signs. Trillion Score 566, #3 of 14 in its field; Fall Risk Medium (how it is measured).
What the house said in advance
Revenue for the fiscal year after 2026-05-31 between $1.3B and $1.8B, an 80% range sealed on 27 Sept 2026 · receipt #7f26ec · graded in public by the revenue in Scholastic’s next annual report.
Figures as filed with the SEC. Ranges, scores and boats are statistical descriptions of past filings, not ratings or recommendations. Reporting, not advice.
In plain words
Scholastic deploys **$200M** to shrink float after restructuring cycle, pricing tender **3-15%** above market with no debt required.
$200 million
of its common stock at prices between
$25.00
per share
15-17%
of the company's outstanding float and marks the first…
2023
and early
Scholastic Corporation announced a modified Dutch auction tender offer to repurchase up to $200 million of its common stock at prices between $22.00 and $25.00 per share. The offer represents roughly 15-17% of the company's outstanding float and marks the first major capital deployment action since the publisher restructured its operations through 2023 and early 2024.
The price range sits 3-15% above recent trading levels, with Scholastic closing near $21.35 before the announcement. Management set the tender to expire April 2, 2025, with settlement expected within three business days of the final count. The company retained Goldman Sachs as dealer manager and D.F. King as information agent, standard choices for a tender of this scale. No debt issuance accompanies the buyback—the offer draws entirely on existing cash.
This matters because Scholastic spent the last eighteen months shedding underperforming units and tightening distribution. The publisher sold its educational technology assets to HMH for an undisclosed sum in Q3 2023, then consolidated warehouse operations across six facilities into four. Free cash flow turned positive in fiscal 2024 after three years of restructuring drag. The tender offer signals management believes the stock trades below intrinsic value and that incremental growth investments no longer warrant the cash.
The broader context: print publishing remains under secular pressure, but Scholastic holds durable moats in school book fairs and classroom libraries. The company reported $1.65 billion in revenue for fiscal 2024, down 4% year-over-year but stabilizing. Gross margins improved 230 basis points to 38.7% as the cost structure reset. The $200 million tender consumes roughly 40% of the $495 million cash position reported in the most recent quarter, leaving enough liquidity for seasonal working capital swings tied to the school calendar.
Allocators should note that insider ownership sits near 9%, concentrated in the Robinson family lineage that has guided the company since 1920. The tender does not require insiders to participate, meaning the effective buyback could reduce public float by closer to 18-20% if family holders abstain. That would tighten the stock's trading dynamics materially. Watch for the preliminary tender results due roughly April 3, which will clarify actual take-up and the clearing price within the stated range.
The offer period runs through the end of the fiscal year, coinciding with Scholastic's strongest seasonal cash generation from spring book fair activity. Management scheduled no concurrent acquisition discussions and issued no new guidance, suggesting capital allocation priorities have shifted toward shareholder returns rather than inorganic expansion. The next meaningful datapoint arrives with Q3 fiscal 2025 earnings in late March, one week before tender expiration.
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