Reviewing Yelp's Year So Far

By Evan Niu, CFA – Aug 12, 2013 at 6:00PM

NYSE: YELP

Yelp

Market Cap

$3B

Today's Change

(0.60%) $0.24

Current Price

$40.39

Price as of April 24, 2024, 4:00 p.m. ET

Yelp has had an incredible year and continues to flirt with all-time highs. Along with the rise comes frothy valuations that the social reviewer will need to justify eventually to investors.

Social reviewer Yelp (YELP 0.60%) is up huge so far this year, recently topping the $50 per share threshold. Much of the investor optimism is due to mobile revenue growth, but the company still faces threats from larger rivals like Google (GOOGL 0.55%), who tried to acquire Yelp years ago. As Yelp transitions to mobile, it will rely less on Google for traffic, which is a good thing.

In the following video, Fool contributor Evan Niu, CFA, and Eric Bleeker, CFA, discuss why Yelp has had such a good year, and whether or not the current valuation makes sense.

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