GigCapital7 (NASDAQ:GIG) & Blaize (NASDAQ:BZAI) Head to Head Analysis

Blaize (NASDAQ:BZAI) and GigCapital7 (NASDAQ:GIG) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability and valuation.

Risk and Volatility

Blaize has a beta of 0.34, meaning that its stock price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GigCapital7 has a beta of 0.05, meaning that its stock price is 95% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Blaize and GigCapital7, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Blaize	1	1	4	1	2.71
GigCapital7	1	0	0	0	1.00

Blaize presently has a consensus target price of $7.60, indicating a potential upside of 260.19%. Given Blaize’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Blaize is more favorable than GigCapital7.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Blaize and GigCapital7″s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Blaize	$1.55 million	151.09	-$4.11 million	($0.71)	-2.97
GigCapital7	N/A	N/A	$2.38 million	$0.09	117.22

GigCapital7 has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Blaize. Blaize is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GigCapital7, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Blaize and GigCapital7’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Blaize	N/A	N/A	-31.40%
GigCapital7	N/A	N/A	N/A

Institutional and Insider Ownership

97.1% of Blaize shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.4% of Blaize shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 26.5% of GigCapital7 shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Blaize beats GigCapital7 on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About GigCapital7

GigCapital7 Corp. is a blank check company or special purpose acquisition company. It was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The company was founded by Avishay S. Katz and Raluca Dinu on May 8, 2024 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.