QNST vs. YELP, ZD, CMPR, ANGI, LQDT, TTGT, OPEN, BCOV, DHX, and TZOO
Should you be buying QuinStreet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of QuinStreet include Yelp (YELP), Ziff Davis (ZD), Cimpress (CMPR), Angi (ANGI), Liquidity Services (LQDT), TechTarget (TTGT), Opendoor Technologies (OPEN), Brightcove (BCOV), DHI Group (DHX), and Travelzoo (TZOO). These companies are all part of the "internet software & services" industry.
QuinStreet vs. Its Competitors
QuinStreet (NASDAQ:QNST) and Yelp (NYSE:YELP) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, risk and media sentiment.
QuinStreet currently has a consensus price target of $29.00, indicating a potential upside of 87.34%. Yelp has a consensus price target of $34.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.73%. Given QuinStreet's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe QuinStreet is more favorable than Yelp.
QuinStreet has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yelp has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
97.8% of QuinStreet shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.1% of Yelp shares are held by institutional investors. 5.0% of QuinStreet shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of Yelp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Yelp had 18 more articles in the media than QuinStreet. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Yelp and 2 mentions for QuinStreet. QuinStreet's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Yelp's score of 0.78 indicating that QuinStreet is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Yelp has a net margin of 9.95% compared to QuinStreet's net margin of -0.06%. Yelp's return on equity of 19.42% beat QuinStreet's return on equity.
Yelp has higher revenue and earnings than QuinStreet. QuinStreet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Yelp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Yelp beats QuinStreet on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NASDAQ:QNST) was last updated on 7/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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