Comparing Nextdoor (NYSE:NXDR) & Yelp (NYSE:YELP)

Nextdoor (NYSE:NXDR) and Yelp (NYSE:YELP) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.

Risk & Volatility

Nextdoor has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yelp has a beta of 0.43, indicating that its share price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Nextdoor and Yelp’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Nextdoor	-11.08%	-6.16%	-5.45%
Yelp	8.59%	19.52%	13.44%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Nextdoor and Yelp”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Nextdoor	$257.65 million	3.53	-$54.20 million	($0.08)	-29.81
Yelp	$1.46 billion	0.81	$145.60 million	$2.09	10.44

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

Insider and Institutional Ownership

35.7% of Nextdoor shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.1% of Yelp shares are owned by institutional investors. 33.5% of Nextdoor shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.3% of Yelp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Nextdoor and Yelp, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Nextdoor	1	2	1	0	2.00
Yelp	3	3	1	0	1.71

Nextdoor presently has a consensus target price of $2.80, suggesting a potential upside of 17.40%. Yelp has a consensus target price of $26.57, suggesting a potential upside of 21.73%. Given Yelp’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Yelp is more favorable than Nextdoor.

Summary

Yelp beats Nextdoor on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Nextdoor

Nextdoor Holdings, Inc. operates as the neighborhood network that connects neighbors, businesses, and public services in the United States and internationally. It enables small and mid-sized businesses, large brands, public agencies, and nonprofits to receive information, give and get help, and build connections. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

About Yelp

Yelp Inc. operates a platform that connects consumers with local businesses in the United States and internationally. The company's platform covers various categories, including restaurants, shopping, beauty and fitness, health, and other categories, as well as home, local, auto, professional, pets, events, real estate, and financial services. It provides free and paid advertising products to businesses, which include cost-per-click advertising and multi-location Ad products, as well as enables businesses to deliver targeted advertising to large and high-intent audience; and business listing page products. The company also offers other services comprising Yelp Guest Manager, a subscription-based suite of front-of-house management tools for restaurants, nightlife and certain other venues, which include online reservations, a waitlist management solution that allows consumers to check wait times and join waitlists remotely, as well as through hostless kiosks, and seating and server rotation management tools; Yelp Knowledge program that offers business owners local analytics and insights through access to its historical data and other proprietary content; and Yelp Fusion, which offers free access to various basic information through publicly available APIs, and paid access to content and data for consumer-facing enterprise use. In addition, it provides content licensing, as well as allows third-party data providers to update and manage business listing information on behalf of businesses. Further, the company offers its products directly through its sales force; indirectly through partners; and online through its website and business app, as well as non-advertising partner arrangements. It has partnership with Grubhub for providing consumers with a service to place food orders for pickup and delivery. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is based in San Francisco, California.