SSTK Stock — Shutterstock, Inc.

Shutterstock, Inc. (SSTK)

Updated October 16, 2026.

SSTK is a Stock. its distribution rate is 32.43%, its trailing-12-month yield is 23.65%. Dividend Vision Distribution Safety Score™ is 32/100 (Elevated risk). Total return is -73.2% over the past 14 years, 650.0 points behind SPY at 576.8%.

Shutterstock operates a creative content platform that licenses photographs, vectors, illustrations, videos, 3D models, music, and generative AI-created content to businesses, marketing agencies, media organizations, and individual creators globally through multiple brand names including Shutterstock, Envato, Pond5, and TurboSquill. The company distributes quarterly and currently offers a high distribution rate. This appeals to income-focused investors seeking exposure to digital content licensing and creative services businesses.

SSTK performance versus SPY

Price and return data through 2026-10-16.

Total return is -73.2% over the past 14 years, 650.0 points behind SPY at 576.8%. Over the past year its total return — price change plus distributions reinvested — is -81.1%. Its deepest 1-year drawdown was 84.3%.

SSTK key facts

Distribution Safety Score™

32 · Elevated risk

Safety-Adjusted Yield

10.38%

Asset type

Stock

Asset class

Equity

Inception date

10/11/2012

Distribution rate

32.43%

Distribution frequency

Quarterly

Trailing yield

23.65%

5-year average yield

2.3

Last close

$4.44 (as of 2026-10-16)

Market cap

$164,047,717

Average volume

862200.0

Dividend

$0.36

Ex-dividend date

06/04/2026

Payment date

06/18/2026

Beta

1.171

Payout ratio

41.5%

Forward P/E

42.1941

EPS

$-5.67

How Dividend Vision calculates yield and returns

Distribution rate (32.43%) uses calculation basis unavailable. Issuer rates can use a different denominator and date, including ex-date NAV. Trailing-12-month yield (23.65%) is the sum of split-adjusted cash distributions with ex-dates in the last 12 months, divided by the published price. It lags a recent raise or cut. Total return uses split-adjusted close with distributions reinvested on the ex-dividend date (a modeling convention, not the cash-settlement date) from the first stored bar on or after inception through the latest bar, compared with the same window on the benchmark. That is the security's total return, not your personal gain/loss.

Yield and safety methodology · Distribution rate methodology · Distribution Safety Score methodology

Sources and review

Primary sources: prices and distributions from Dividend Vision, derived from vendor EOD data.

Reviewed by Bert Sweet, CEO and Co-owner of Dividend Vision. Methodology: Distribution Safety Score.

SSTK risks and drawbacks

Payments are quarterly, so cash flow is lumpy versus a monthly fund. Total return has trailed SPY over the available window. The deepest 1-year drawdown on record here is 84.3%.

Who may consider SSTK — and who may not

It is a weaker fit for investors who need monthly cash flow (SSTK pays quarterly); investors whose main goal is matching SPY total return. This is educational context, not a recommendation to buy or sell.

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