Where Food Comes From (WFCF) Competitors

Where Food Comes From (NASDAQ:WFCF) and Backblaze (NASDAQ:BLZE) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in WFCF or BLZE?

18.8% of Where Food Comes From shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.0% of Backblaze shares are held by institutional investors. 50.3% of Where Food Comes From shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of Backblaze shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Do analysts rate WFCF or BLZE?

Backblaze has a consensus target price of $10.83, suggesting a potential upside of 96.26%. Given Backblaze's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Backblaze is more favorable than Where Food Comes From.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Where Food Comes From	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Backblaze	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in WFCF or BLZE?

Where Food Comes From received 76 more outperform votes than Backblaze when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.63% of users gave Where Food Comes From an outperform vote while only 63.83% of users gave Backblaze an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Where Food Comes From	Outperform Votes 106 64.63%	Underperform Votes 58 35.37%
Backblaze	Outperform Votes 30 63.83%	Underperform Votes 17 36.17%

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, WFCF or BLZE?

Where Food Comes From has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Backblaze. Backblaze is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Where Food Comes From, 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
Where Food Comes From	$25.75M	2.34	$2.15M	$0.39	29.47
Backblaze	$127.63M	1.92	-$59.71M	-$1.11	-4.97

Is WFCF or BLZE more profitable?

Where Food Comes From has a net margin of 8.23% compared to Backblaze's net margin of -37.13%. Where Food Comes From's return on equity of 19.31% beat Backblaze's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Where Food Comes From	8.23%	19.31%	11.29%
Backblaze	-37.13%	-100.67%	-34.41%

Does the media prefer WFCF or BLZE?

In the previous week, Where Food Comes From and Where Food Comes From both had 2 articles in the media. Backblaze's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Where Food Comes From's score of 0.75 indicating that Backblaze is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Where Food Comes From	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Backblaze	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more volatility & risk, WFCF or BLZE?

Where Food Comes From has a beta of 0.41, indicating that its share price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Backblaze has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Where Food Comes From beats Backblaze on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.