SSTK Shutterstock Inc

$SSTK Shutterstock has a solid business group! Between Shutterstock, Envato, Giphy, picmonkey, pond5, and turbosquid there is a large diverse portfolio of brands and capabilities. The enterprise client sstk largely serves enjoys the indemnification sstk provides. The guarantee and intent to provide legal licenced content is important for all corporations especially in court. Envato is expanding their platform to become more of a workflow solution similar to Canva. Giphy is just now becoming monetized with programic advertising. There is no doubt AI is changing the business and sstk could end up smaller. But with API integrations into Anthropic and OpenAI , the expanding Envato solution, Giphy becoming an advertising channel, and AI training Shutterstock could actually grow for many years to come......at 2x free cash flow sstk is way oversold. I'm personally buying, accumulating, cost averaging, and holding for the earnings to compound..... my 1 yr PPS target is 25.00 for sstk

$SSTK what if I told you there was a stock with low debt and annual free cash flow roughly equal to its market cap. And the FCF is relatively stable. Is that something you might be interested in?

$SSTK Debt is $274M, unsecured, due 2029, costing about $19M a year. Cash flow can retire it. This is not Getty. A company preparing to fade doesn't act like this. Shutterstock is hiring across data licensing, AI products and GIPHY, running ads on Instagram and Facebook, and promoting its Studios business on LinkedIn. The assets are real: a global editorial wire, GIPHY across Meta's apps, Envato, Pond5, TurboSquid and a Meitu stake. And on Sept 29 the Third Circuit ruled that training AI to compete with the original isn't fair use. Strategic review pending. I'm buying the assets, not the headlines.

$SSTK I'm out this company is going to post horrible earnings and get to have no strategy and I'll buy the stock back when it hits 3

$SSTK Show me stability after all this kerfuffle, then show me $10. This is truly the pits. I do have cash on the sidelines waiting for a few names to pull back further but if Shutterstock gets to the mid $3 dollar range, I very well may have to sell everything else and full port.

$SSTK Based on the complete lack of communications with shareholders coupled with the wildly irrational share price, I strongly suspect Shutterstock management is preparing to take the company private. I would under these circumstances. Any offer that is less than $15 per share is a robbery attempt and should be rejected.

$SSTK There are very few on this board. sstk got removed from indices and indexes like Russell and so on because of the merger. then no dividend so all dividend funds and portfolios sold...there are no buyers that's why it's so cheap just give it time. I'm accumulating buying when I can and cost averaging. 2x free cash flow is way too good to pass up on.

$SSTK after some digestion I'm thinking the Getty merger is back in play. wrapping up Getty and Shutterstock provide a very compressive and desirable AI training data set. Not only for training but also for updating the AI capabilities. obviously if training was set to and stopped in 1970 things would look disco and 1970. These AI's have to be continuously updated. Getty leaving the UK editorial business is a small price to pay for this merger to commence. There are fantastic synergies with this combination. The Getty and koch families put up large chunks of cash again to save Getty they obviously think there is a business there that will create profits..... truth is Shutterstock is undervalued at 27 PPS but I would take it.......

$SSTK this is not the news we were looking for I don't know how the CEO is going to sugar coat the company and I wish they would have found somebody that had fresher ideas they took 3 months to hire back the founder stocks going down

$SSTK hired Jonathan Oringer as CEO and Chairman, and named Hichame Assi as President and COO.

$SSTK wow...this board seems to be a one man show of talking to himself daily about a "strategic review"?? So sad!

$SSTK I expect a substantial relief rally November 5. Five announcements that would actually justify this $4 valuation: 1. “The cash balance is a stock photo of a bank statement. We can’t repay debt with it; we only bought the editorial license.” 2. “We executed the buyback. Unfortunately, Rik bought Getty with it. He’s on hold asking if bankruptcy is a problem.” 3. “We sold GIPHY for exposure. The buyer has 410 followers, but they’re all decision-makers.” 4. “Envato is now free. Contributors still get cash. We lose money on every customer, but eight billion people haven’t signed up yet. Huge runway.” 5. “All free cash flow will buy Philly blunts. Shareholders get secondhand smoke. Counsel says passing it around isn’t a dividend.” Otherwise, I’m asking for an earnings call that doesn’t end with the CFO asking if somebody can spot him $20 until Friday.

$SSTK horrible company horrible management have not said one word in over a month when their primary competition is filed bankruptcy they should say something it doesn't make any sense for a say hey we're doing good you know

$SSTK Sorry but why does there seem to be some consensus here that SSTK will buyback shares? Given SSTK suspended their dividend and explicitly stated they’re focusing on being financially flexible, they won’t want to buyback shares and probably aren’t allowed to. Terms of covenants usually prevent distributing dividends and buying back shares during a liquidity risk. SSTK does have debt. 2 years of FCF would cover it but it’s not guaranteed (which is kind of the whole premise of the bear case). That’s why management wants to hoard cash. They do have a remaining $30 million available on an outstanding repurchase program but they won’t use it, the corporate shift into survival mode implies credit obligations and operational costs come first. Why would capital returns for investors be a priority? GETY just basically collapsed ffs. Wasting money on buybacks now, even if they could, would do nothing to convince the market they’re being sensible with cash during a short term crisis.

$SSTK Hold tight here. This Company is fundamentally worth $10 per share, minimum. Just wait until they provide updates and earnings.

$SSTK Oringer is selling his Colorado townhouse at an asking price of $49 million (purchased for ≈ $25 million in 2021). Will be a nice ROI for him. Now if he could do the same for the company, that’d be great 👍

$SSTK The European Commission has opened a targeted consultation specifically on copyright and generative AI, with a dedicated section on “licensing and enforcement of copyright and related rights.” The Commission says it is evaluating whether the EU’s existing copyright framework should be reinforced because of AI and other technological changes. The consultation runs through November 3, 2026. The significance is that one of the world’s largest regulatory markets is explicitly examining the mechanics of licensing protected works for generative AI, rather than treating unrestricted training as a settled entitlement. That fits Shutterstock’s positioning around licensed, rights-cleared, traceable datasets.

$SSTK My short order at the open got filled at 4.16. Looking forward to riding this down once again.

$SSTK this price drop was expected. New executives hired...new shares given for free as welcome package. Millions of shares....hopefully they justify that

$SSTK Oringer coming back is the best possible outcome for the CEO. He is at the forefront of AI and how best to navigate it.