Head to Head Review: Blaize (BZAI) versus Its Rivals

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

Risk and Volatility

Blaize has a beta of 0.29, suggesting that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Blaize’s peers have a beta of -0.09, suggesting that their average share price is 109% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Blaize and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Blaize	$1.55 million	-$4.11 million	-3.23
Blaize Competitors	$203.60 million	-$18.84 million	70.89

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

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Blaize	N/A	N/A	-31.40%
Blaize Competitors	0.86%	0.95%	0.80%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Blaize and its peers, 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	254	268	217	3	1.96

Blaize currently has a consensus price target of $7.60, indicating a potential upside of 231.88%. As a group, “UNCLASSIFIED” companies have a potential upside of 49.57%. Given Blaize’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Blaize is more favorable than its peers.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

97.1% of Blaize shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.0% of shares of all “UNCLASSIFIED” companies are owned by institutional investors. 17.4% of Blaize shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 42.9% of shares of all “UNCLASSIFIED” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

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

Blaize Company Profile

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.