BLND vs. YALA, HSTM, SMWB, KIND, EB, VNET, CEVA, HUYA, PUBM, and SABR
Should you be buying Blend Labs stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blend Labs include Yalla Group (YALA), HealthStream (HSTM), Similarweb (SMWB), Nextdoor (KIND), Eventbrite (EB), VNET Group (VNET), CEVA (CEVA), HUYA (HUYA), PubMatic (PUBM), and Sabre (SABR). These companies are all part of the "computer programming, data processing, & other computer related" industry.
Blend Labs (NYSE:BLND) and Yalla Group (NYSE:YALA) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking and institutional ownership.
52.6% of Blend Labs shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.7% of Yalla Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.8% of Blend Labs shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 52.2% of Yalla Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Blend Labs has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yalla Group has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Yalla Group has higher revenue and earnings than Blend Labs. Blend Labs is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Yalla Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Blend Labs had 4 more articles in the media than Yalla Group. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Blend Labs and 2 mentions for Yalla Group. Yalla Group's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Blend Labs' score of 0.15 indicating that Yalla Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Blend Labs received 19 more outperform votes than Yalla Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.50% of users gave Yalla Group an outperform vote while only 36.36% of users gave Blend Labs an outperform vote.
Yalla Group has a net margin of 36.80% compared to Blend Labs' net margin of -90.62%. Yalla Group's return on equity of 22.83% beat Blend Labs' return on equity.
Blend Labs presently has a consensus target price of $3.15, suggesting a potential downside of 0.32%. Given Blend Labs' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Blend Labs is more favorable than Yalla Group.
Summary
Yalla Group beats Blend Labs on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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