JOYY (JOYY) & Its Rivals Financial Review

JOYY (NASDAQ:JOYY) is one of 192 public companies in the “Interactive Media & Services” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare JOYY to similar businesses based on the strength of its valuation, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for JOYY and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
JOYY	0	2	3	0	2.60
JOYY Competitors	1379	5891	11308	423	2.57

JOYY presently has a consensus price target of $80.50, indicating a potential upside of 9.20%. As a group, “Interactive Media & Services” companies have a potential upside of 29.57%. Given JOYY’s peers higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe JOYY has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Volatility & Risk

JOYY has a beta of 0.47, indicating that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JOYY’s peers have a beta of 1.57, indicating that their average share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares JOYY and its peers revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
JOYY	$2.12 billion	$2.10 billion	17.10
JOYY Competitors	$12.33 billion	$3.48 billion	16.31

JOYY’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than JOYY. JOYY is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

36.8% of JOYY shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.5% of shares of all “Interactive Media & Services” companies are held by institutional investors. 43.0% of JOYY shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.6% of shares of all “Interactive Media & Services” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Dividends

JOYY pays an annual dividend of $5.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. JOYY pays out 138.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. As a group, “Interactive Media & Services” companies pay a dividend yield of 16.7% and pay out 4.9% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. JOYY lags its peers as a dividend stock, given its lower dividend yield and higher payout ratio.

Profitability

This table compares JOYY and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
JOYY	10.42%	3.67%	3.20%
JOYY Competitors	-349.95%	-12.16%	4.19%

Summary

JOYY peers beat JOYY on 9 of the 15 factors compared.

JOYY Company Profile

JOYY Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates social media platforms that offer users engaging and experience across various video and audio-based social platforms. The company operates Bigo Live, a live streaming platform that allows users to live stream specific moments, such as live talk with other users, make video calls, and watch trend videos; Likee, a short-form video social platform that focuses on enabling users to create short-form video; Hago, a casual game-oriented social platform; and imo, a chat and instant messaging application with functions, including video calls, text messages, and photo and video sharing. It operates in the People’s Republic of China, the United States, the Great Britain, Japan, South Korea, Australia, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia and others. The company was formerly known as YY Inc. and changed its name to JOYY Inc. in December 2019. JOYY Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Singapore.