QNST vs. YELP, ZD, CMPR, LQDT, OPEN, ANGI, TTGT, TZOO, BCOV, and DHX
Should you be buying QuinStreet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of QuinStreet include Yelp (YELP), Ziff Davis (ZD), Cimpress (CMPR), Liquidity Services (LQDT), Opendoor Technologies (OPEN), Angi (ANGI), TechTarget (TTGT), Travelzoo (TZOO), Brightcove (BCOV), and DHI Group (DHX). These companies are all part of the "internet software & services" industry.
QuinStreet vs.
QuinStreet (NASDAQ:QNST) and Yelp (NYSE:YELP) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
QuinStreet has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yelp has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Yelp has a net margin of 9.41% compared to QuinStreet's net margin of -1.31%. Yelp's return on equity of 18.07% beat QuinStreet's return on equity.
In the previous week, Yelp had 15 more articles in the media than QuinStreet. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Yelp and 7 mentions for QuinStreet. QuinStreet's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Yelp's score of 0.58 indicating that QuinStreet is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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 company insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of Yelp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
QuinStreet presently has a consensus price target of $29.80, suggesting a potential upside of 41.57%. Yelp has a consensus price target of $37.17, suggesting a potential upside of 1.76%. Given QuinStreet's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe QuinStreet is more favorable than Yelp.
Yelp received 1025 more outperform votes than QuinStreet when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.13% of users gave Yelp an outperform vote while only 56.49% of users gave QuinStreet an outperform vote.
Summary
Yelp beats QuinStreet on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:QNST) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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