Head-To-Head Review: THUMZUP MEDIA (NASDAQ:DTCX) & JOYY (NASDAQ:JOYY)

JOYY (NASDAQ:JOYY) and THUMZUP MEDIA (NASDAQ:DTCX) are both services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for JOYY and THUMZUP MEDIA, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
JOYY	0	2	2	0	2.50
THUMZUP MEDIA	0	0	0	0	0.00

JOYY currently has a consensus price target of $74.67, indicating a potential upside of 20.94%. Given JOYY’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe JOYY is more favorable than THUMZUP MEDIA.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares JOYY and THUMZUP MEDIA”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
JOYY	$2.09 billion	1.52	$2.10 billion	$39.03	1.58
THUMZUP MEDIA	N/A	N/A	-$4.00 million	($1.44)	-2.01

JOYY has higher revenue and earnings than THUMZUP MEDIA. THUMZUP MEDIA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JOYY, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares JOYY and THUMZUP MEDIA’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
JOYY	98.79%	3.93%	3.44%
THUMZUP MEDIA	N/A	-109.59%	-105.41%

Risk & Volatility

JOYY has a beta of 0.36, indicating that its share price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, THUMZUP MEDIA has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

36.8% of JOYY shares are held by institutional investors. 43.0% of JOYY shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 43.5% of THUMZUP MEDIA shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

JOYY beats THUMZUP MEDIA on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About JOYY

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.

About THUMZUP MEDIA

Thumzup Media Corporation operates as a software as a service provider in the United States. The company develops and builds influencer and gig economy community under the Thumzup mobile application. Its mobile application incentivizes real people to generate and post authentic posts on social media about the advertiser and its products. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.