Yelp Just A 2-Star Stock: Vetr Crowd

• Shares of Yelp Inc YELP fell almost 50 percent over 2015.
• Most of the stock's value was lost over the past six months.
• In a depressed valuations environment, the Vetr crowd has decided to upgrade the stock's rating from 1.5 stars to two stars.

Fifty-five percent of the crowd's ratings are bullish. It should be noted that the site's formula considers several factors on top of Buy, Hold or Sell ratings to award stars.

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The Vetr crowd’s Sell rating is accompanied by a $24.93 target price for the stock, which implies a downside potential of almost 10 percent from current prices. Wall Street is considerably more bullish, and sports an average price target of $39.97, according to Vetr's calculations.

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In a report issued Tuesday, Roth Capital Partners analyst Darren Aftahi reiterated a Sell rating and $17.50 price target on Yelp, arguing that Facebook Professional Services further supports the firm's Sell thesis on Yelp.

A few days earlier, Macquarie analysts Tom White and Mack Hueber issued an Outperform rating and $33 price target on the stock. However, they would rather buy Groupon Inc GRPN's stock in account of its risk/reward profile.

About a month ago, RBC Capital's Mark S. Mahaney upgraded the rating on the company from Sector Perform to Outperform, while raising the price target from $34 to $42.

Disclosure: Javier Hasse holds no positions in any of the securities mentioned above.