BLND vs. YALA, HSTM, SMWB, KIND, EB, VNET, CEVA, HUYA, PUBM, and SABR
Should you be buying Blend Labs stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blend Labs include Yalla Group (YALA), HealthStream (HSTM), Similarweb (SMWB), Nextdoor (KIND), Eventbrite (EB), VNET Group (VNET), CEVA (CEVA), HUYA (HUYA), PubMatic (PUBM), and Sabre (SABR). These companies are all part of the "computer programming, data processing, & other computer related" industry.
Blend Labs (NYSE:BLND) and Yalla Group (NYSE:YALA) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk and profitability.
Yalla Group has higher revenue and earnings than Blend Labs. Blend Labs is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Yalla Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
52.6% of Blend Labs shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.7% of Yalla Group shares are held by institutional investors. 11.8% of Blend Labs shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 52.2% of Yalla Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Blend Labs received 19 more outperform votes than Yalla Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.50% of users gave Yalla Group an outperform vote while only 36.36% of users gave Blend Labs an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Blend Labs had 7 more articles in the media than Yalla Group. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Blend Labs and 3 mentions for Yalla Group. Yalla Group's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Blend Labs' score of 0.39 indicating that Yalla Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Blend Labs presently has a consensus price target of $3.15, indicating a potential downside of 1.56%. Given Blend Labs' higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Blend Labs is more favorable than Yalla Group.
Blend Labs has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yalla Group has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Yalla Group has a net margin of 36.80% compared to Blend Labs' net margin of -90.62%. Yalla Group's return on equity of 22.83% beat Blend Labs' return on equity.
Summary
Yalla Group beats Blend Labs on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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