Yelp (NYSE:YELP – Get Rating) and XWELL (NASDAQ:XWEL – Get Rating) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and profitability.
Volatility & Risk
Yelp has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, XWELL has a beta of 1.9, indicating that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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This table compares Yelp and XWELL's gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Yelp | $1.03 billion | 2.02 | $39.67 million | $0.53 | 56.32 |
| XWELL | $73.73 million | 0.50 | $3.35 million | ($0.17) | -2.29 |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
93.0% of Yelp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.9% of XWELL shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.7% of Yelp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of XWELL shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Yelp and XWELL, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Yelp | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1.86 |
| XWELL | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 |
Yelp presently has a consensus price target of $34.38, suggesting a potential upside of 15.16%. XWELL has a consensus price target of $1.50, suggesting a potential upside of 284.62%. Given XWELL's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe XWELL is more favorable than Yelp.
Profitability
This table compares Yelp and XWELL's net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Yelp | 3.40% | 5.44% | 3.80% |
| XWELL | -20.72% | -19.57% | -15.07% |
Summary
Yelp beats XWELL on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Yelp
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Yelp Inc. operates a platform that connects consumers with local businesses in the United States and internationally. The company's platform covers various local business 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 search advertising and multi-location Ad products, as well as enables businesses to deliver targeted search advertising to local audiences; and business listing page products. The company also offers other services comprising Yelp Reservations that provide online reservations for restaurants, nightlife, and other venues directly from their Yelp business pages; Yelp Waitlist, a subscription-based waitlist management solution that allows consumers to check wait times and join waitlists remotely, as well as businesses to manage seating and server rotation; 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 and paid access to content and data for consumer-facing enterprise use through publicly available APIs. 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, as well as non-advertising partner arrangements. It has strategic partnership with Grubhub for providing consumers with a service to place food orders for pickup and delivery. Yelp Inc. was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
About XWELL
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XWELL, Inc. provides global travel health and wellness services. It operates through the following segments: XpresSpa, XpresTest, Treat, and Corporate and Other. The XpresSpa segment offers travelers premium spa services, including massage, nail and skin care, as well as spa and travel products. The XpresTest segment deals with diagnostic COVID-19 tests at XpresCheck Wellness Centers in airports, to airport employees and to the traveling public. The Treat segment consists of access to integrated care which can seamlessly fit into a post-pandemic world and is designed to deliver on-demand access to integrated healthcare through technology and personalized services, positioned for a traveler to access health care, records and real-time information all in one place. The company was founded by Jonathan Medved and David Goldfarb on January 9, 2006 and is headquartered in New York, NY.
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