BuzzFeed (NASDAQ:BZFD) and Beamr Imaging (NASDAQ:BMR) Head-To-Head Contrast

BuzzFeed (NASDAQ:BZFD) and Beamr Imaging (NASDAQ:BMR) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for BuzzFeed and Beamr Imaging, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BuzzFeed	0	0	0	1	4.00
Beamr Imaging	0	0	0	0	0.00

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares BuzzFeed and Beamr Imaging”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
BuzzFeed	$189.89 million	0.38	-$10.10 million	$0.25	7.76
Beamr Imaging	$3.13 million	11.44	-$3.35 million	N/A	N/A

Beamr Imaging has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BuzzFeed.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

37.6% of BuzzFeed shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.7% of Beamr Imaging shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.3% of BuzzFeed shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares BuzzFeed and Beamr Imaging’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BuzzFeed	4.75%	-28.11%	-11.14%
Beamr Imaging	N/A	N/A	N/A

Risk and Volatility

BuzzFeed has a beta of 3.45, meaning that its stock price is 245% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Beamr Imaging has a beta of 3.68, meaning that its stock price is 268% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

BuzzFeed beats Beamr Imaging on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed, Inc., a digital media company, distributes content across owned and operated, as well as third-party platforms. The company offers BuzzFeed, a go-to authority for entertainment, pop culture, and Internet with articles, lists, quizzes, videos, and original series; BuzzFeed News, a pocket friendly newsroom; Tasty, a platform for food content; HuffPost, media platform for news, politics, opinion, entertainment, features, and lifestyle content. It also provides display, programmatic, and video advertising on its owned and operated sites and applications. BuzzFeed, Inc. is headquartered in New York, New York.

About Beamr Imaging

Beamr Imaging Ltd. provides video encoding, transcoding, and optimization solutions in the United States, Israel, and internationally. It offers a suite of video compression software encoder solutions, including Beamr 4 H.264, Beamr 4X H.264 content adaptive, Beamr 5 HEVC, and Beamr 5X HEVC content adaptive encoders; Beamr JPEGmini photo optimization software solutions for reducing joint photographic experts group file sizes; and Beamr Silicon IP block, a hardware solution for integration into dedicated video encoding application-specific integrated circuits, graphics processing units, and application processors. The company serves tier one over-the-top platforms, content distributors, video streaming platforms, and Hollywood studios. The company was formerly known as I.C.V.T Ltd. and changed its name to Beamr Imaging Ltd. in January 2015. Beamr Imaging Ltd. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.