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YELP

Yelp Inc. Common Stock (YELP) fair value

Communication Services · Internet Content & Information · NYSE · United States
$19.99-3.43%
Market cap $1.1BNext earnings 2026-11-05Updated Oct 20, 2026
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Our verdict
Trades 55% below our fair value
Price
$19.99
Model fair valueConfidence: good
$44.04
Model range
$25.48 to $68.20
Fair value $44.04
Price $19.99
4 models fit Yelp Inc. Common Stock and they disagree: 1 of 4 land within 15% of the average. The price is below every model.
Two or more of our models back this value.
Large discount(i)Bronze58
Valued as a mature, profitable company: Discounted cash flow, P/E comparison, EV/EBITDA comparison, Graham number, and Dividend discount.
ACCE opinionYelp Inc. Common Stock (YELP)
Fair value (4 models)
$44.04
ACCE price target
$20.00
Rating
Undervalued
Horizon
12 months
Fair value published on 20 Oct 2026, 16:04 CEST; previously $35.47 since 16 Oct 2026, 00:00 CEST.
ACCE price target published on 13 Oct 2026, 00:00 CEST.
Rating published on 20 Oct 2026, 16:04 CEST.
Price used: $19.99 at the close on 23 Oct 2026, 22:00 CEST.
Models: Discounted cash flow, P/E comparison, EV/EBITDA comparison, and Graham number.
Fair value: the average of the applicable valuation models (discounted cash flow, multiples, residual income, dividend discount, shareholder yield), each run on the latest financial statements and the market price shown. Opinion columns (fair value, target, rating) are shown apart from the data. Full methodology: acceinvestments.com/data/how-we-value-stocks
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Data
Price vs fair value
54.6% below
+120.3% to fair value
ACCE score
53
out of 100
Analysts
18% buy
11 covering
P/E
10.0x
forward 14.7x
1-year return
-39.7%
Dividend yield
0.00%

Yelp Inc. Common Stock in four questions

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Overview

ACCE thesis

Yelp runs the local business review platform behind its Yelp.com and mobile apps, earning most of its revenue from advertising that local merchants buy to appear in search results and business profiles, alongside a smaller stream from its Yelp Guest Center and Reservations products. The moat rests on a large base of user-written reviews and a long-established brand in restaurant and home-services discovery, with gross margins of 89.6% showing how little it costs to serve each incremental ad impression. Growth is the problem: revenue is up only 1.4%, so the case depends on monetization gains and margin expansion rather than volume, and the score of 53 out of 100 reflects that stall. The stock trades at 9.8 times trailing earnings and 14.7 times forward earnings, a multiple that implies the market expects earnings to fall, not rise, so the forward figure deserves scrutiny before anyone treats the discount as cheap. With a 12.7% operating margin and an 18.2% return on equity, the business is profitable, but it is not in the index memberships screen, which leaves it in a small-cap value niche where the research burden is to show that revenue can re-accelerate.

AI-assisted·How I use AIWritten Oct 18, 2026
⚠ Investor warnings · 2 flagsAI-assisted·How I use AI
  • moderate
    Heavy short interest
    Short interest stands at 34.0% of the float, a large bet against the stock that could amplify volatility in either direction.
  • moderate
    Score drifting lower
    The ACCE score slipped from 56 to 53 over 90 days, with growth at 19 and momentum at 17 pulling it down.

AI research notes

AI-assisted·How I use AIWritten Oct 21, 2026 · figures from 2026-06-30 · prices to Oct 23, 2026
Why it could do well
  • Trailing free cash flow of $323M is substantial for a company priced at only $20.28 a share.
  • The company has cut its diluted share count by 7.8% in the last fiscal year, lifting each shareholder's slice of the business.
  • Latest quarterly earnings per share beat expectations by 93.8%, coming in at 0.62 against 0.32 expected.
Why it could disappoint
  • Net margin of 8.6% leaves little room for error if revenue growth stays this slow.
  • Only 2 of 11 analysts rate the stock Buy or Strong Buy, a sign the professional community is not convinced.
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Where YELP's valuation models land
Price
$19.99
Model fair value
$44.04
Model range
$25.48 to $68.20
Fair value $44.04
Price $19.99
The price is below the whole model range.
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Wall Street consensus

Bearish18% buy · 11 covering analysts
● Strong buy 2● Buy 0● Hold 6● Sell 2● Strong sell 1
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Where it sits vs peers

News and Record

Press releases mentioning this company

Recent performance

1 week
+0.6%
1 month
+12.7%
3 months
-20.4%
6 months
-30.4%
YTD
-34.2%
1 year
-39.7%

SEC filings

Recommendation history, last 12 months

DateTypeNewPreviousPrice
20 Oct 2026, 16:04 CESTRatingUndervaluedfirst publication$19.57
20 Oct 2026, 16:04 CESTFair value$44.04$35.47$19.57
16 Oct 2026, 00:00 CESTFair value$35.47$34.25$19.45
13 Oct 2026, 00:00 CESTACCE price target$20.00first publication$18.59
11 Oct 2026, 00:00 CESTFair value$34.25$29.27$18.59
4 Oct 2026, 00:00 CESTFair value$29.27$28.98$18.26
30 Sept 2026, 00:00 CESTFair value$28.98$29.38$17.59
27 Sept 2026, 00:00 CESTFair value$29.38$29.01$18.03
25 Sept 2026, 00:00 CESTFair value$29.01$32.52$17.73
20 Sept 2026, 00:00 CESTFair value$32.52$33.60$19.63

This analysis is not personalised investment advice and does not take your situation, objectives or risk tolerance into account. ACCE Investments is not an authorised investment firm.

Investing in shares carries a risk of losing capital. The value of an investment can go down as well as up.

Valuation horizon: 12 months from the publication date.

Conflicts of interest. ACCE Investments is operated by Adrien Chantreuil, who may hold personal positions in the securities analysed. Positions are declared on each security. ACCE receives no payment from the companies analysed or from any intermediary for this analysis.

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Snapshot

Growth19Value95Quality81Momentum17Total53
Valuation
Trailing P/E
10.0x
Forward P/E
14.7x
PEG
no data
P/B
1.49x
EV / Revenue
0.7x
Book value/sh
$11.72
Enterprise value
$991M
Profitability
ROE
18.2%
FCF yield
28.76%
ROIC
16.2%
Health and risk
Debt / equity
0.03
Dividend yield
0.00%
Beta
0.45

Price

-39.5% · 1Y

Ask anything about YELP

Answered from Yelp Inc. Common Stock fundamentals + recent valuations. Every number shows its source and date.

This stock Peer Peer median weaker → stronger
P/Ebetter than 75% of peers
low 0.0x10.0xhigh 19.9x
ROEbetter than 67% of peers
low -103%18%high 53%
Div yieldbetter than 50% of peers
low 0.0%0.0%high 9.1%

Peers

Prices Oct 23, 2026
CompanyPriceFair valuevs fair valueP/EROEQualityScore
YELP Yelp Inc. Common Stock$19.99$4455% below10.0x18.2%8153
HEM.ST Hemnet Group AB (publ)kr 75.65kr 9823% below19.9x39.6%9649
STUB StubHub Holdings Inc. Class A Common Stock$5.85----103.0%4846
RUM Rumble Inc. Class A Common Stock$5.64----18.4%3131
ATHM Autohome Inc. American Depositary Shares each representing four class A ordinary shares.$20.36$228% below17.7x3.7%6953
CARG CarGurus Inc. Class A Common Stock $31.52$3920% below16.8x53.5%9372
SEK.AX SEEK LimitedA$13.69A$788% above--12.7%5255

Sector report card

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  • PR Newswire•Oct 6, 2026
    Ampersand closes generation gap between agents and the enterprise software stack, backed by $15 million from Bessemer Venture Partners
  • Business Wire•Sep 10, 2026
    Yelp and Hatch Advance Voice AI for Restaurants and Service Pros with OpenAI's GPT-Live-1
  • Business Wire•Sep 2, 2026
    Yelp to Participate in the Goldman Sachs Communacopia & Technology Conference
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40 filings
October 2026
Oct 23
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Oct 19
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