QuinStreet (QNST) Competitors

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

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of YELP or QNST?

90.1% of Yelp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.8% of QuinStreet shares are held by institutional investors. 7.4% of Yelp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of QuinStreet 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.

Do analysts rate YELP or QNST?

Yelp currently has a consensus target price of $37.17, indicating a potential downside of 0.15%. QuinStreet has a consensus target price of $29.80, indicating a potential upside of 66.29%. Given QuinStreet's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe QuinStreet 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)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.88
QuinStreet	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.80

Which has stronger earnings & valuation, YELP or QNST?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Yelp	$1.41B	1.71	$132.85M	$1.92	19.39
QuinStreet	$928.72M	1.09	-$31.33M	-$0.22	-81.45

Which has more volatility & risk, YELP or QNST?

Yelp has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, QuinStreet has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer YELP or QNST?

Yelp received 1024 more outperform votes than QuinStreet when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.13% of users gave Yelp an outperform vote while only 56.57% of users gave QuinStreet an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Yelp	Outperform Votes 1334 68.13%	Underperform Votes 624 31.87%
QuinStreet	Outperform Votes 310 56.57%	Underperform Votes 238 43.43%

Is YELP or QNST more profitable?

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.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Yelp	9.41%	18.07%	13.55%
QuinStreet	-1.31%	-4.13%	-2.37%

Does the media prefer YELP or QNST?

In the previous week, Yelp had 2 more articles in the media than QuinStreet. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Yelp and 11 mentions for QuinStreet. QuinStreet's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Yelp's score of 0.83 indicating that QuinStreet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Yelp	7 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
QuinStreet	6 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Yelp beats QuinStreet on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.