Yelp Inc

Consumer Discretionary
Other Consumer Services
www.yelp.com

Earnings Score
Moat Score

Market Cap $2.49B
PE 17
Debt -
Cash $222.61M
EV -
FCF $270.06M

Earnings

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Sales & Net Margins

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Earnings	$143.09M
EBIT	$199.25M
ROE	20%
ROA	20%
FCF	$270.06M
Equity	$728.02M
Growth Stability	-23%
PE	17.4
PEG	0.28
PB	3.42
P/FCF	9.22
P/S	1.73
Price/Cash	0.09
Net Margins	7%
Gross Margins	91%
Op. Margins	14%
Earnings CAGR	8%
Sales Growth YoY	8%
Sales Growth QoQ	-1%
Sales CAGR	8%
FCF CAGR	13%
Equity CAGR	-1%
Earnings Stability	0.08
Earnings Growth YoY	72%

Earnings Growth QoQ	-42%
Earnings CAGR 5Y	62%
Sales CAGR 5Y	12%
FCF CAGR 5Y	15%
Equity CAGR 5Y	-3%
Earnings CAGR 3Y	9%
Sales CAGR 3Y	9%
FCF CAGR 3Y	26%
Equity CAGR 3Y	2%
Market Cap	$2.49B
Revenue	$1.44B
Assets	$985.20M
Cash	$222.61M
Shares Outstanding	64.74M
Earnings Score	7%
Moat Score	93%
Working Capital	345.32M
Current Ratio	2.89
Gross Profit	$1.31B
Shares Growth 3y	-3%
Equity Growth QoQ	-2%
Equity Growth YoY	1%

Assets & ROA

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Stockholders Equity & ROE

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Yelp Inc operates in the online content market based primarily in the United States. It provides a web-based platform and mobile application to bridge the gap between businesses and consumers. The platform assists consumers through product reviews, tips, photos and videos thereby enabling them in making better buying decisions and posting their feedbacks. It also caters to businesses in reaching out to potential customers by providing advertising space. In addition, it also lets the buyers directly transact with businesses directly through its platform. Yelp generates revenue mainly from the sale of advertising on its website and mobile app to businesses.

SEC Filings

Direct access to Yelp Inc (YELP) Annual Reports (10K) and Quarterly Reports (10Q) from the SEC website.

2025
- 10-Q Mar 31
2024
- 10-K Dec 31
- 10-Q Sep 30
- 10-Q Jun 30
- 10-Q Mar 31
2023
- 10-K Dec 31
- 10-Q Sep 30
- 10-Q Jun 30
- 10-Q Mar 31

Sector Comparison

How does Yelp Inc compare to its competitors?

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Peter Lynch's Chart

This chart shows the current pricing of Yelp Inc compared to its past. The addition of the earnings trend line provides further insights into the company's earnings power.

CAGR 8%

Stability 8%

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Yelp Inc Discounted Cash Flow

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Years

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= $6.7B

	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	TV
fcf	$270M	$305M	$345M	$389M	$440M	$497M	$561M	$634M	$716M	$809M	$914M	$9.1B
DCF		$277M	$285M	$292M	$300M	$308M	$317M	$325M	$334M	$343M	$352M	$3.5B
Value	$6.7B

Competitiveness and MOAT

High margins render the company resilient under dire circumstances, hence able to drive competitors out or acquire them. ROE and ROA measure the average flow generated by each invested dollar. Their marginal value is a forecast of future growth, and it is considered by Buffett and Munger the most important single indicator.

Years	12/2015	12/2016	12/2017	12/2018	12/2019	12/2020	12/2021	12/2022	12/2023	12/2024	TTM
Net Margins	-6%	-1%	18%	6%	4%	-2%	4%	3%	7%	9%	7%
ROA	-	-1%	15%	2%	6%	-3%	3%	7%	10%	19%	20%
ROE	-	-1%	14%	5%	5%	-2%	5%	5%	13%	18%	20%

Bad Net Margins (6.8%)

Net Margins are too low to guarantee profitability in case of higher costs or higher interest rates. Furthermore lower margins cause higher earnings’ volatility.

Safety and Stability

Being debt the number one cause of investment losses and company death, the ratio Debt/FCF is of utmost importance to guarantee safety. On the other hand the Graham’s stability measures the drawdown of earnings, hence indicating the reliability of the flow generated by the company.

Years	12/2015	12/2016	12/2017	12/2018	12/2019	12/2020	12/2021	12/2022	12/2023	12/2024	TTM
Debt over FCF	-	0.17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Debt over Equity	0.02	0.02	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Growth Stability	-	-	-	100%	60%	-23%	100%	100%	100%	100%	-23%

Neutral Debt/FCF ratio (-)

Net Margins are at a level that is not too high nor too low. They are not a competitive advantage but they are not a competitive disadvantage either.

Neutral Debt/Equity ratio (-)

The company has a balance between equity and debt that is not too good nor too bad.

Bad Graham’s Stability (-23%)

The company has a bad stability in its earnings, which is a sign of a bad competitive advantage.

Growth

Growth can be dangerous when forecasting, simply projecting the current growth is in general wrong. A company passes through multiple phases, from being young and unprofitable, to the first periods of profitability and high growth, until it arrives at a period of regime with limited growth. Identifying in which phase the company is in may help forecasting.

Years	12/2015	12/2016	12/2017	12/2018	12/2019	12/2020	12/2021	12/2022	12/2023	12/2024	CAGR 5Y
Revenue YoY growth	-	30%	19%	11%	8%	-14%	18%	16%	12%	6%	12%
Earnings YoY growth	-	-86%	-3K%	-64%	-26%	-148%	-304%	-8%	173%	34%	62%
Equity YoY growth	-	16%	36%	-2%	-30%	13%	-12%	-5%	6%	-1%	-3%
FCF YoY growth	-	296%	46%	-11%	24%	-13%	27%	-13%	74%	-11%	15%