Reviewing Blaize (BZAI) and Its Competitors

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

Volatility and Risk

Blaize has a beta of 0.29, indicating that its stock price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Blaize’s peers have a beta of -0.08, indicating that their average stock price is 108% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Blaize	$1.55 million	-$4.11 million	-4.46
Blaize Competitors	$36.21 million	-$16.53 million	93.19

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.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Blaize and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Blaize	1	1	4	1	2.71
Blaize Competitors	225	265	217	3	2.00

Blaize presently has a consensus target price of $7.60, indicating a potential upside of 199.21%. As a group, “UNCLASSIFIED” companies have a potential upside of 12.90%. Given Blaize’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Blaize is more favorable than its peers.

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

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	-49.12%
Blaize Competitors	0.86%	0.95%	0.80%

Summary

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

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.