YNDX vs. BZ, WIX, DV, DOCN, BMBL, RUM, ZM, CIEN, BWXT, and ARW
Should you be buying Yandex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Yandex include Kanzhun (BZ), Wix.com (WIX), DoubleVerify (DV), DigitalOcean (DOCN), Bumble (BMBL), Rumble (RUM), Zoom Video Communications (ZM), Ciena (CIEN), BWX Technologies (BWXT), and Arrow Electronics (ARW). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Kanzhun (NASDAQ:BZ) and Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and profitability.
Yandex has a net margin of 11.73% compared to Yandex's net margin of 7.06%. Kanzhun's return on equity of 5.29% beat Yandex's return on equity.
Kanzhun has a beta of 0.42, indicating that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yandex has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Yandex received 651 more outperform votes than Kanzhun when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.76% of users gave Yandex an outperform vote while only 46.15% of users gave Kanzhun an outperform vote.
Yandex has higher revenue and earnings than Kanzhun. Yandex is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kanzhun, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Yandex had 1 more articles in the media than Kanzhun. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Yandex and 1 mentions for Kanzhun. Yandex's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Kanzhun's score of 0.26 indicating that Kanzhun is being referred to more favorably in the media.
60.7% of Kanzhun shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.5% of Yandex shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.2% of Yandex shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Kanzhun presently has a consensus target price of $19.00, suggesting a potential upside of 22.66%. Given Yandex's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Kanzhun is more favorable than Yandex.
Summary
Yandex beats Kanzhun on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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