Contrasting Yelp (NYSE:YELP) and Beyond Commerce (OTCMKTS:BYOC)

Yelp (NYSE:YELP) and Beyond Commerce (OTCMKTS:BYOC) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Valuation & Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Yelp	$1.45 billion	1.44	$132.85 million	$2.21	14.94
Beyond Commerce	$2.59 million	0.64	$3.32 million	N/A	N/A

Yelp has higher revenue and earnings than Beyond Commerce.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Yelp	10.28%	20.17%	15.18%
Beyond Commerce	N/A	-71.18%	288.82%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

90.1% of Yelp shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.0% of Yelp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Beyond Commerce shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Risk & Volatility

Yelp has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Beyond Commerce has a beta of -1.45, indicating that its share price is 245% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Yelp and Beyond Commerce, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Yelp	2	4	1	0	1.86
Beyond Commerce	0	0	0	0	0.00

Yelp presently has a consensus price target of $35.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.98%. Given Yelp’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Yelp is more favorable than Beyond Commerce.

Summary

Yelp beats Beyond Commerce on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About Beyond Commerce

Beyond Commerce, Inc. engages in the business-to-business Internet marketing technology and services, and information management market businesses. It offers content, business process management, customer feedback management, customer experience management, business network, and BYOC analytics services. The company was formerly known as BOOMj, Inc. and changed its name to Beyond Commerce, Inc. in February 2009. Beyond Commerce, Inc. is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.