Analyzing Backblaze (NASDAQ:BLZE) and GMO Payment Gateway (OTCMKTS:GMYTF)

GMO Payment Gateway (OTCMKTS:GMYTF) and Backblaze (NASDAQ:BLZE) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, dividends, valuation and earnings.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares GMO Payment Gateway and Backblaze”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
GMO Payment Gateway	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Backblaze	$115.29 million	2.64	-$59.71 million	($1.42)	-5.17

GMO Payment Gateway has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Backblaze.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

54.0% of Backblaze shares are held by institutional investors. 5.2% of Backblaze shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares GMO Payment Gateway and Backblaze’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
GMO Payment Gateway	N/A	N/A	N/A
Backblaze	-42.34%	-104.71%	-36.79%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for GMO Payment Gateway and Backblaze, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
GMO Payment Gateway	0	0	0	0	N/A
Backblaze	0	0	4	0	3.00

Backblaze has a consensus target price of $11.25, suggesting a potential upside of 53.27%. Given Backblaze’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Backblaze is more favorable than GMO Payment Gateway.

Summary

Backblaze beats GMO Payment Gateway on 5 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About GMO Payment Gateway

GMO Payment Gateway, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides financial services and integrated payment related services. The company offers online payment system comprising PG multi-payment service, a payment system that allows to select payment methods, such as credit card payment and CVS payment; Ginko Pay Base System, a smartphone app that enables payments to be made by an immediate debit from the bank account; and GMO-PG processing platform, which helps financial institutions and financial service providers in the business of payment-related services by enabling payment infrastructure building, as well as security and GMO payment after delivery services. It also provides global payment services; and early payment, GMO-PG remittance, guarantees, and transaction lending services. In addition, the company offers online advertising services consisting of administrative services for listing ads that use Yahoo! Promotional advertising, and Google AdWords; and administrative services for Facebook Ads, Google Analytics, etc. Further, it provides website analysis support, consulting, and other support services. GMO Payment Gateway, Inc. was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Shibuya, Japan.

About Backblaze

Backblaze, Inc., a storage cloud platform, provides businesses and consumers cloud services to store, use, and protect data in the United States and internationally. The company offers cloud services through a web-scale software infrastructure built on commodity hardware. It also provides Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, which enables customers to store data, developers to build applications, and partners to expand their use cases. This service is offered as a consumption-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and serves use cases, such as public, hybrid, and multi-cloud data storage; application development and DevOps; content delivery and edge computing; security and ransomware protection; media management; backup, archive, and tape replacement; repository for analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning; and Internet of Things. In addition, the company offers Backblaze Computer Backup that automatically backs up data from laptops and desktops for businesses and individuals, which provides a subscription-based Software-as-a-Service and serves use cases, including computer backup, ransomware protection, theft and loss protection, and remote access. It serves the public cloud IaaS storage and Data-Protection-as-a-Service markets. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.