Comparing Banzai International (NASDAQ:BNZI) & Braze (NASDAQ:BRZE)

Braze (NASDAQ:BRZE) and Banzai International (NASDAQ:BNZI) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

90.5% of Braze shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.8% of Banzai International shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.0% of Braze shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 57.7% of Banzai International shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Braze and Banzai International”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Braze	$535.87 million	5.70	-$129.17 million	($1.28)	-23.48
Banzai International	$4.34 million	14.61	-$14.41 million	N/A	N/A

Banzai International has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Braze.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Braze and Banzai International, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Braze	0	0	19	0	3.00
Banzai International	0	0	1	0	3.00

Braze presently has a consensus price target of $57.33, indicating a potential upside of 90.79%. Banzai International has a consensus price target of $125.00, indicating a potential upside of 4,166.21%. Given Banzai International’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Banzai International is more favorable than Braze.

Profitability

This table compares Braze and Banzai International’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Braze	-22.01%	-25.89%	-14.25%
Banzai International	N/A	N/A	-127.56%

Volatility and Risk

Braze has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Banzai International has a beta of -0.63, indicating that its share price is 163% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Banzai International beats Braze on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Braze

Braze, Inc. operates a customer engagement platform that provides interactions between consumers and brands worldwide. The company offers Braze software development kits that automatically manage data ingestion and deliver mobile and web notifications, in-application/in-browser interstitial messages, and content cards; REST API that can be used to import or export data or to trigger workflows between Braze and brands' existing technology stacks; Partner Data Integrations, which allow brands to sync user cohorts from partners; Data Transformation, in which brands can programmatically sync and transform user data; and Braze Cloud Data Ingestion that enables brands to harness their customer data. It also offers classification products, including segmentation that can define reusable segments of consumers based upon attributes, events, or predictive propensity scores; segment insights, which allows customers to analyze how segments are performing relative to each other across a set of pre-selected key performance indicators; and predictive suite that allows customers to identify groups of consumers that are of critical business value. In addition, the company provides Canvas, an orchestration tool that allows customers to create journeys, mapping out multi-steps, and cross-channel messaging experiences; campaigns, which allows customers to send one set of single-channel or multi-channel messages to be delivered to customers in a particular user segment; event and API triggering; marketing pressure management; and reporting and analytics. Further, it offers personalization products, such as liquid templating platform, connected content platform, content blocks, intelligent timing and channel, personalized variant, and AI item recommendations, and catalogs; and action products. The company was formerly known as Appboy, Inc. and changed its name to Braze, Inc. in November 2017. Braze, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

About Banzai International

Banzai International, Inc., a marketing technology company, provides data-driven marketing and sales solutions for various businesses in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. Its products include Demio, a browser-based webinar platform with data and marketing features designed to help businesses engage with their audience through live events and on-demand, interactive video content; Boost, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for social sharing by event registrants; and Reach, a SaaS and managed service to increase registration and attendance of marketing events. The company serves healthcare, financial services, e-commerce, technology, media, and other industries. Banzai International, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Bainbridge Island, Washington.