Contrasting Net Savings Link (OTCMKTS:NSAV) and Yelp (NYSE:YELP)

Net Savings Link (OTCMKTS:NSAV) and Yelp (NYSE:YELP) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk and dividends.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Net Savings Link and Yelp”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Net Savings Link	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Yelp	$1.41 billion	1.23	$132.85 million	$2.26	12.45

Yelp has higher revenue and earnings than Net Savings Link.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Net Savings Link and Yelp, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Net Savings Link	0	0	0	0	0.00
Yelp	2	4	1	0	1.86

Yelp has a consensus target price of $31.29, suggesting a potential upside of 11.21%. Given Yelp’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Yelp is more favorable than Net Savings Link.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

90.1% of Yelp shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Net Savings Link shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Yelp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Net Savings Link and Yelp’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Net Savings Link	N/A	N/A	N/A
Yelp	10.23%	20.33%	15.23%

Volatility & Risk

Net Savings Link has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yelp has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Yelp beats Net Savings Link on 9 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Net Savings Link

Net Savings Link, Inc. operates as a cryptocurrency, blockchain, and digital asset technology company. It holds interests in Cryptocurrency Trading Platform based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and offers a range of trading services, such as portfolio management and price search function. This platform supports various cryptocurrency exchanges. The company is based in London, the United Kingdom.

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.