Yelp Inc (YELP) fair value: what the stock is really worth
As of Sep 23, 2026: fair value of Yelp Inc $53.19, price $17.73, upside +200.0%, quality 88 out of 100. Calculated from audited financials with 26 valuation models and 37 quality factors, updated daily.
- Fair value above price? Yes
- Good quality? Yes
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Yelp Inc
YELP · USStrongly undervaluedStrong Fair Value upside with high Quality.
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Price vs Fair Value
White line = price, green steps = our fair value per fiscal year, dashed = 300-day average. As of Sep 23, 2026.
How to read this chart
60‑month range $17.73 – $48.43 · fair‑value band $37.55 – $69.15 · the $17.73 price screens below the $53.19 fair value. Green steps = our fair value per fiscal year (point-in-time, no hindsight). Dashed = 300-day average. As of Sep 23, 2026.
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Company profile
Yelp Inc. operates a platform that connects consumers with local businesses in the United States and internationally. Its platform covers various 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.
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Yelp Inc. operates a platform that connects consumers with local businesses in the United States and internationally. Its platform covers various 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 advertising and multi-location Ad products, RepairPal network, and business listing pages. The company also offers Yelp Connect that provides advertisers with a channel to market new offerings, such as new menu items and specials, and communicate business updates to customers; Yelp Guaranteed that provides limited coverage to consumers who hire a yelp guaranteed business through request-a-quote in the event; Nearby Jobs solutions; Yelp Guest Manager, a subscription-based suite of front-of-house management tools for restaurants, nightlife, and certain other venues, which include online reservations, a waitlist management solution, as well as through hostless kiosks, and seating and server rotation management tools; Yelp Fusion Insights program that offers business owners local analytics and insights; and Yelp Fusion, which offers free access to basic information through publicly available APIs and paid access to content and data for consumer-facing enterprise use. In addition, it provides content licensing and consumer-interactive tools. Further, the company offers its products directly through its sales force; indirectly through partners; and online through its website and business app, as well as non-advertising partner arrangements. It has partnership with DOORDASH to provide consumers with a service to place food orders for pickup and delivery. The company was formerly known as Yelp! Inc. and changed its name to Yelp Inc. in November 2005. Yelp Inc. was incorporated in 2004 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Stock analysis
Yelp Inc (YELP) currently trades at $17.73, while our model-based Fair Value estimate is $53.19, implying the stock looks roughly 66.7% undervalued today.
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Valuation
Bull case: the DCF Models group reads highest at a median of $86.32 per share, and 23 of the 24 models we run sit above the $17.73 price.
Bear case: the Asset-Based group reads lowest at $8.66, and 1 of the 24 models stay below the price. Evidence for this calculation is low.
Scenario range: $37.55 (bear) to $69.15 (bull), the price of $17.73 sits below it. Bear and bull are the same models on cautious and optimistic assumptions, a range, not a price target.
Quality & growth
The Quality Score stands at 88/100 (high quality), in the Communication Services sector.
Healthy Growth: Revenue growth appears healthy and is supported by profitability and cash-flow quality.
Yelp Inc reported revenue of $1.5B in FY2025 versus $1.0B in FY2021, a compound +9.2%/yr. Reported net income was $146M in FY2025, compounding +38.4%/yr from FY2021.
Key figures
Market cap $1.3B · P/E ratio 8.1 · P/S ratio 0.81 · EPS (TTM) $2.18 · Net margin 9.9% · Return on equity 20.5% · Return on assets (EBIT) 10.2% · Operating margin 9.0%.
Competitive moat
Our AI-assisted moat analysis scores the competitive advantage at 52 out of 100 (medium confidence).
What moves the price
The share trades about 48% below its 52-week high and at its 52-week low, currently below its 200-day average.
For context, the median of 10 Communication Services peers we cover trades at 10% fair-value upside, at 200%, YELP screens cheaper than that median.
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