Communication Services
Live Price
Offline$23.10
+0.35% today
1Y Change
-33.95%
Window
Jun 23, 2025 โ Jun 15, 2026
Coverage: 246 bars ยท Jun 23, 2025 โ Jun 15, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Yelp Inc. (YELP) is a Communication Services stock with a market cap of $1.60B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $23.10 and down 33.9% across the available one-year price window (Jun 23, 2025 โ Jun 15, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +3.7%, EPS growth of +16.8%, a dividend yield of 0.0%. What stands out right now is revenue +3.7%, EPS +16.8%, free cash flow +30.0% with operating margin 12.6% and ROIC 16.6%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 12.0 and price/sales 1.1. Stock Foundry combines YELP price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Communication Services peers on this page.
Sector Context
How this name stacks up against nearby peers on first-pass metrics.
Revenue Growth
Near sector median
+3.7% vs +5.5% peer median
Operating Margin
Above sector median
+12.6% vs +3.6% peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
Latest report is on the board
2026 was reported on May 14, 2026, but the surprise data is still limited.
The operating story is still moving forward
Revenue is running at +3.7% and EPS at +16.8%, with operating margin around 12.6%.
Earnings Reaction Memory
How the stock has tended to move after recent reports.
Across the last 3 reported quarters, the stock averaged -4.3% over the next 5 trading days and finished higher after 1 of those reports.
| Quarter | EPS ฮ | 1D | 5D | 20D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026 May 14, 2026 | โ | +2.7% | +3.6% | +9.6% |
2026 Feb 12, 2026 | +29.8% | -8.1% | -6.9% | +4.4% |
2025 Nov 6, 2025 | +29.8% | -10.0% | -9.5% | -7.6% |
Benchmark Comparison
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YELP Max Drawdown
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Company Overview
Yelp Inc.
New York Stock Exchange
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.
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