Grab (NASDAQ:GRAB – Get Free Report) and Backblaze (NASDAQ:BLZE – Get Free Report) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Grab and Backblaze, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Grab | 0 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 2.91 |
| Backblaze | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 2.70 |
Grab presently has a consensus target price of $6.01, suggesting a potential upside of 79.27%. Backblaze has a consensus target price of $13.21, suggesting a potential upside of 7.35%. Given Grab’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Grab is more favorable than Backblaze.
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Grab | $3.37 billion | 4.07 | $268.00 million | $0.01 | 335.00 |
| Backblaze | $145.84 million | 5.07 | -$25.61 million | ($0.39) | -31.56 |
Grab has higher revenue and earnings than Backblaze. Backblaze is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grab, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Grab and Backblaze’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Grab | 10.67% | 5.79% | 3.28% |
| Backblaze | -14.97% | -20.54% | -8.90% |
Insider & Institutional Ownership
55.5% of Grab shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.0% of Backblaze shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.6% of Grab shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Backblaze shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Volatility and Risk
Grab has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Backblaze has a beta of 1.55, indicating that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Grab beats Backblaze on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Grab
Grab Holdings Limited engages in the provision of superapps in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The company offers its Grab ecosystem, a single platform with superapps for driver- and merchant-partners and consumers, that allows access to mobility, delivery, digital financial services, and enterprise sector offerings. Grab Holdings Limited is headquartered in Singapore.
About Backblaze
Backblaze, Inc., a storage cloud platform, provides businesses and consumers cloud services to store, use, and protect data in the United States and internationally. The company offers cloud services through a web-scale software infrastructure built on commodity hardware. It also provides Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, which enables customers to store data, developers to build applications, and partners to expand their use cases. This service is offered as a consumption-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and serves use cases, such as public, hybrid, and multi-cloud data storage; application development and DevOps; content delivery and edge computing; security and ransomware protection; media management; backup, archive, and tape replacement; repository for analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning; and Internet of Things. In addition, the company offers Backblaze Computer Backup that automatically backs up data from laptops and desktops for businesses and individuals, which provides a subscription-based Software-as-a-Service and serves use cases, including computer backup, ransomware protection, theft and loss protection, and remote access. It serves the public cloud IaaS storage and Data-Protection-as-a-Service markets. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.
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