Financial Review: Bumble (NASDAQ:BMBL) & Getty Images (NYSE:GETY)

Getty Images (NYSE:GETY) and Bumble (NASDAQ:BMBL) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, institutional ownership and valuation.

Volatility & Risk

Getty Images has a beta of 2.07, indicating that its stock price is 107% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bumble has a beta of 1.86, indicating that its stock price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Getty Images and Bumble”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Getty Images	$981.29 million	0.11	-$206.12 million	($0.39)	-0.64
Bumble	$965.66 million	0.42	-$693.14 million	($4.23)	-0.73

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Getty Images and Bumble, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Getty Images	2	3	1	0	1.83
Bumble	2	15	1	0	1.94

Getty Images currently has a consensus price target of $3.92, suggesting a potential upside of 1,476.31%. Bumble has a consensus price target of $3.87, suggesting a potential upside of 25.75%. Given Getty Images’ higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Getty Images is more favorable than Bumble.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

45.8% of Getty Images shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.8% of Bumble shares are held by institutional investors. 9.3% of Getty Images shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.3% of Bumble shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Getty Images and Bumble’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Getty Images	-16.24%	-26.82%	-5.25%
Bumble	-58.99%	35.88%	17.46%

Summary

Getty Images beats Bumble on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Getty Images

Getty Images Holdings, Inc. offers creative and editorial visual content solutions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. Its products include Getty Images that offers creative and editorial content including stills, music and video which focuses on corporate, agency, and media customers; iStock.com, an e-commerce offering where customers have access to creative stills and video; Unsplash.com, a platform offering free stock photo downloads and paid subscriptions targeted to the high-growth prosumer and semi-professional creator segments; and Unsplash+ that provides access to unique model released content with expanded legal protections. In addition, it maintains privately-owned photographic archives covering news, sport, and entertainment, as well as variety of subjects, including lifestyle, business, science, health, wellness, beauty, sports, transportation, and travel. Further, the company provides music licensing, and digital asset management and distribution services. It serves media outlets, advertising agencies and corporations, individual creators, and prosumers. The company was formerly known as Getty Images, Inc. Getty Images Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

About Bumble

Bumble Inc. provides online dating and social networking platforms in North America, Europe, internationally. It owns and operates websites and applications that offers subscription and in-app purchases dating products. The company operates apps, including Bumble, a dating app built with women at the center, where women make the first move; Badoo, the web and mobile free-to-use dating app; Official app where users connect their profile with that of their partner enabling a shared, linked product experience; Bumble BFF and Bumble Bizz Modes that have a format similar to the date mode requiring users to set up profiles and matching users through yes and no votes, similar to the dating platform; and Bumble for Friends, a friendship app where people in all stages of life can meet people nearby and create meaningful platonic connections, as well as Fruitz app is centered around encouraging honesty and transparency by sharing dating intentions from the first touch point. Bumble Inc. was founded in 2006 in and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.