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YELP vs. SPSC, ZD, CMPR, QNST, ANGI, LQDT, OPEN, TTGT, BCOV, and TZOO

Should you be buying Yelp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Yelp include SPS Commerce (SPSC), Ziff Davis (ZD), Cimpress (CMPR), QuinStreet (QNST), Angi (ANGI), Liquidity Services (LQDT), Opendoor Technologies (OPEN), TechTarget (TTGT), Brightcove (BCOV), and Travelzoo (TZOO). These companies are all part of the "internet software & services" industry.

Yelp vs.

Yelp (NYSE:YELP) and SPS Commerce (NASDAQ:SPSC) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, dividends, profitability and media sentiment.

Yelp has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SPS Commerce has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Yelp presently has a consensus target price of $34.00, suggesting a potential downside of 9.63%. SPS Commerce has a consensus target price of $195.38, suggesting a potential upside of 35.68%. Given SPS Commerce's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe SPS Commerce is more favorable than Yelp.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Yelp
2 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.71
SPS Commerce
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.56

SPS Commerce has a net margin of 12.08% compared to Yelp's net margin of 9.41%. Yelp's return on equity of 18.07% beat SPS Commerce's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Yelp9.41% 18.07% 13.55%
SPS Commerce 12.08%12.27%10.10%

In the previous week, Yelp had 17 more articles in the media than SPS Commerce. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Yelp and 8 mentions for SPS Commerce. SPS Commerce's average media sentiment score of 1.60 beat Yelp's score of 0.89 indicating that SPS Commerce is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Yelp
16 Very Positive mention(s)
6 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
SPS Commerce
8 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

90.1% of Yelp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.0% of SPS Commerce shares are held by institutional investors. 8.0% of Yelp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of SPS Commerce shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Yelp received 689 more outperform votes than SPS Commerce when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.55% of users gave SPS Commerce an outperform vote while only 68.06% of users gave Yelp an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
YelpOutperform Votes
1334
68.06%
Underperform Votes
626
31.94%
SPS CommerceOutperform Votes
645
73.55%
Underperform Votes
232
26.45%

Yelp has higher revenue and earnings than SPS Commerce. Yelp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SPS Commerce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Yelp$1.44B1.67$132.85M$2.0818.09
SPS Commerce$669.74M8.17$77.05M$2.1467.29

Summary

SPS Commerce beats Yelp on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE 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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YELP vs. The Competition

MetricYelpPersonal services IndustryComputer SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$2.40B$1.23B$24.87B$19.20B
Dividend YieldN/A1.84%2.90%3.83%
P/E Ratio19.6011.9644.1534.29
Price / Sales1.6727.312,147.0734.43
Price / Cash11.3030.5134.8117.51
Price / Book3.332.896.644.67
Net Income$132.85M$76.26M$740.00M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-3.92%2.49%-1.62%-2.80%
1 Month Performance9.15%15.00%10.65%5.82%
1 Year Performance3.33%4.15%52,790.67%5.41%

Yelp Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
YELP
Yelp
3.659 of 5 stars
$37.41
-1.7%
$34.00
-9.1%
+3.7%$2.39B$1.44B19.494,900Insider Trade
SPSC
SPS Commerce
3.1533 of 5 stars
$151.87
+5.6%
$198.11
+30.4%
-24.4%$5.77B$669.74M74.452,220Positive News
Gap Down
ZD
Ziff Davis
4.4036 of 5 stars
$34.70
+12.3%
$54.17
+56.1%
-43.8%$1.49B$1.40B29.414,900Positive News
Gap Down
CMPR
Cimpress
4.7744 of 5 stars
$45.85
+5.0%
$62.50
+36.3%
-47.3%$1.14B$3.37B7.5916,000News Coverage
Analyst Revision
QNST
QuinStreet
2.9685 of 5 stars
$15.68
+5.5%
$29.00
+84.9%
-17.3%$885.43M$928.72M-71.27790Positive News
High Trading Volume
ANGI
Angi
3.251 of 5 stars
$16.11
+0.1%
$21.36
+32.6%
-25.2%$803.00M$1.13B201.404,600High Trading Volume
LQDT
Liquidity Services
2.8872 of 5 stars
$24.06
-5.7%
$38.50
+60.0%
+30.2%$746.80M$439.25M32.08740News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
OPEN
Opendoor Technologies
3.5937 of 5 stars
$0.71
+5.5%
$1.55
+119.1%
-69.1%$511.82M$5.13B-1.312,570High Trading Volume
TTGT
TechTarget
3.7578 of 5 stars
$9.11
+9.6%
$25.17
+176.3%
-75.4%$266.33M$257.41M-21.691,000Gap Down
BCOV
Brightcove
0.4841 of 5 stars
$4.45
flat
$3.98
-10.7%
N/A$202.12M$201.19M-21.19720
TZOO
Travelzoo
3.4856 of 5 stars
$14.22
-3.0%
$25.00
+75.8%
+68.7%$159.90M$85.06M13.29210

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This page (NYSE:YELP) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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