Blaize (BZAI) versus Its Peers Critical Contrast

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

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Blaize	$1.55 million	-$4.11 million	-5.02
Blaize Competitors	$41.37 million	-$18.54 million	92.96

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 breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Blaize and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Blaize	1	1	4	1	2.71
Blaize Competitors	217	264	217	3	2.01

Blaize currently has a consensus target price of $7.60, suggesting a potential upside of 165.73%. As a group, “UNCLASSIFIED” companies have a potential upside of 8.70%. Given Blaize’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Blaize is more favorable than its peers.

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%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

97.1% of Blaize shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.0% of shares of all “UNCLASSIFIED” companies are owned by institutional investors. 17.4% of Blaize shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 42.7% of shares of all “UNCLASSIFIED” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

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.

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.