Reviewing Blaize (BZAI) & Its Rivals

Blaize (NASDAQ:BZAI) is one of 89 public companies in the “UNCLASSIFIED” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare Blaize to related businesses based on the strength of its profitability, risk, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Blaize and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Blaize	1	1	4	1	2.71
Blaize Competitors	206	262	217	3	2.02

Blaize presently has a consensus target price of $7.60, suggesting a potential upside of 109.94%. As a group, “UNCLASSIFIED” companies have a potential upside of 18.64%. Given Blaize’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Blaize is more favorable than its competitors.

Profitability

This table compares Blaize and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Blaize	N/A	N/A	-49.12%
Blaize Competitors	0.86%	0.95%	0.80%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

97.1% of Blaize shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.0% of shares of all “UNCLASSIFIED” companies are held by institutional investors. 17.4% of Blaize shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 42.9% of shares of all “UNCLASSIFIED” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Blaize and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Blaize	$1.55 million	-$4.11 million	-6.35
Blaize Competitors	$47.83 million	-$19.62 million	94.18

Blaize’s competitors have higher revenue, but lower earnings than Blaize. Blaize is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Risk & Volatility

Blaize has a beta of 0.29, meaning that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Blaize’s competitors have a beta of -0.08, meaning that their average share price is 108% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Blaize beats its competitors on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

About Blaize

Blaize® has created a transformative new compute solution that unites silicon and software to optimize AI from the edge to the core. We’re partnering with customers to transform their products so they can deliver better experiences and better lives.