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BuzzFeed, Inc.NasdaqCM:BZFD Stock Report

Market Cap US$31.0m
Share Price
US$0.82
US$1
17.7% undervalued intrinsic discount
1Y-57.1%
7D1.0%
Portfolio Value
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BuzzFeed, Inc.

NasdaqCM:BZFD Stock Report

Market Cap: US$31.0m

BuzzFeed (BZFD) Stock Overview

A digital media company, distributes content across owned and operated, and third-party platforms in the United States and internationally. More details

BZFD fundamental analysis
Snowflake Score
Valuation4/6
Future Growth0/6
Past Performance0/6
Financial Health1/6
Dividends0/6

Rewards

Trading at 43.8% below our estimate of its fair value

Risk Analysis

Earnings have declined by 11.4% per year over past 5 years

Does not have a meaningful market cap ($31M)

Currently unprofitable and not forecast to become profitable over the next 3 years

Has less than 1 year of cash runway


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US$7.4351.9% undervalued intrinsic discount

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Price History & Performance

Summary of share price highs, lows and changes for BuzzFeed
Historical stock prices
Current Share PriceUS$0.82
52 Week HighUS$2.68
52 Week LowUS$0.54
Beta3.41
1 Month Change35.72%
3 Month Change-5.25%
1 Year Change-57.14%
3 Year Change-62.39%
5 Year Change-97.88%
Change since IPO-97.90%

Recent News & Updates

Recent updates

Seeking Alpha • Sep 11

BuzzFeed, Inc.: The Elephant In The Room Can Pirouette

Summary BuzzFeed's Q3 FY 2024 guidance is the highest ever, showcasing a strong business turnaround with significant improvements in engagement and advertising revenues. The $120 million 8.5% convertible debt put option due December 3, 2024, poses a major risk, but management has multiple strategies to address it. Selling First We Feast, refinancing the debt, or extending the put option with warrants are viable solutions to defuse the debt issue. The 2024 Presidential election cycle and Kamala Harris's nomination could drive substantial free cash flow in the second half of 2024 for BuzzFeed. Read the full article on Seeking Alpha
Seeking Alpha • Apr 11

My Best Current Micro-Cap Idea: BuzzFeed, Inc.

Summary BuzzFeed sold its Complex business for $114 million or 2X revenue, in late February 2024. This transforms the balance sheet. The market is irrationally fearful of BZFD's $120 million 8.5% 12/3/2026 convertible, which has a 12/3/24 lender put option. Selling complex means everyone can row in the same direction, coupled with $23 million of FY 2024 cost savings, and this stock is (super mis-priced), at its current valuation. Read the full article on Seeking Alpha
Analysis Article • Mar 15

Things Look Grim For BuzzFeed, Inc. (NASDAQ:BZFD) After Today's Downgrade

The analysts covering BuzzFeed, Inc. ( NASDAQ:BZFD ) delivered a dose of negativity to shareholders today, by making a...
Seeking Alpha • Sep 01

BuzzFeed Has Lost Its Buzz

Summary BuzzFeed's stock price has declined 84% in just nine months. Since coming into the spotlight between 2011 and 2015, BuzzFeed has steadily lost relevance over time. Even at 0.5x sales, BuzzFeed is not an attractive investment as future prospects remain weak. BuzzFeed's (BZFD) stock price has experienced a free fall since its SPAC in November 2021 where it traded at ~$10 a share. Today, BuzzFeed trades at just $1.50. Top-line growth is dwindling while net losses are widening - operating costs are rising more aggressively than sales. Even at current prices, I do not see BuzzFeed as an attractive investment. Future prospects look dim; new content isn't resonating with consumers, and the company is battling against a poor advertising backdrop. BuzzFeed may appear cheap at 0.5x FY22 sales, but don't be fooled - margins are moving in the wrong direction, with little evidence that this will change as the company unsuccessfully tries to turn the ship around. Sell. Why has BuzzFeed stock fallen? BuzzFeed's performance has fallen victim to the same fate as many other 2021 SPACs due to an over-optimistic (to put it lightly) initial valuation. Take a look at Bloomberg's De-SPAC index as a quick measure of what I mean by this SPAC 'fate'. Bloomberg It, therefore, isn't too surprising to see a significant slowdown in the SPAC activity in 2022; the number of SPAC IPOs dropped more than 80% in the first half of 2022 compared to the prior year. For BuzzFeed's pre-IPO shareholders, it appears they got the merger away at a good time (before the big crumble). But even under more accommodating SPAC conditions, BuzzFeed had little demand from investors. When the company merged with blank-check company 890 Avenue Partners Inc, 94% of the money raised by the SPAC was withdrawn as investors started to rotate away from SPACs, leaving BuzzFeed with just $16M. This general consensus move foreboded what was to come, just nine months later and the BuzzFeed stock price is down 84%. Like the initial valuation, BuzzFeed's guidance was likely aggressive. The firm expected a revenue CAGR of 25% annually through 2024. Just a year later and this expectation has been revised, the market now expects BuzzFeed to achieve a CAGR of just 10% through '24. This slower growth has come despite a stark increase in marketing spend. In Q2, BuzzFeed reported 20% revenue growth while sales and marketing expenses increased 61%. This was only slightly higher than the overall jump in total costs (47%). These higher costs drove BuzzFeed to a net loss of $23.7M. Loss of reader traction A key aspect of BuzzFeed's business is the YouTube channel, and the statistics on this account can provide a good insight into the overall performance and traction of BuzzFeed content. Purely looking at subscriber count, it's clear for a long period BuzzFeed experienced consistent exemplary channel growth. Trackalytics But there has been a notable slowdown in this growth since 2019. It appears the BuzzFeed channel is starting to reach maturity. 20 Million is a lot of subscribers, but it means very little without similar levels of engagement Trackalytics The above Trackalytics feature gives estimates of Ad revenue over time. The revenue estimates are very broad but do show a gradual decline in earnings since late 2018. Google trends paint a similar story. Google Of course, these stats aren't a complete reflection of BuzzFeed's performance but they do provide a good overview of the brand's potentially diminishing relevance. Is BuzzFeed undervalued now? The US and global economy are slowing down and that does not spell good news for BuzzFeed. Nearly half of Q2 revenue came from advertising, therefore weak guidance was expected against this poor backdrop (~6% growth expected in Q2 Y/Y). BuzzFeed is expecting sequentially deeper losses in Q3. The company has guided for Adjusted EBITDA in the range of $5-10M. Investors should also strap in for greater net losses as stock-based compensation is expected to be between $3.5-$4.5M.
Analysis Article • Aug 13

Time To Worry? Analysts Are Downgrading Their BuzzFeed, Inc. (NASDAQ:BZFD) Outlook

Market forces rained on the parade of BuzzFeed, Inc. ( NASDAQ:BZFD ) shareholders today, when the analysts downgraded...
Analysis Article • Apr 11

BuzzFeed's (NASDAQ:BZFD) Solid Earnings Have Been Accounted For Conservatively

The market seemed underwhelmed by last week's earnings announcement from BuzzFeed, Inc. ( NASDAQ:BZFD ) despite the...
Analysis Article • Mar 24

Analysts Have Made A Financial Statement On BuzzFeed, Inc.'s (NASDAQ:BZFD) Annual Report

Investors in BuzzFeed, Inc. ( NASDAQ:BZFD ) had a good week, as its shares rose 5.1% to close at US$4.91 following the...
Seeking Alpha • Dec 10

BuzzFeed Needs To Scale To Grow And Be Profitable

BuzzFeed has gone public, making it the first publicly traded purely digital media company. BuzzFeed went public via a merger with a SPAC that suffered a spate of investor withdrawals on the eve of BuzzFeed’s listing. Growth has slowed down at BuzzFeed, and the company needed the Complex acquisition that came with the SPAC deal, to fuel growth. Without acquisitions, it is debatable just how much. Having had its growth and profitability hit by the pandemic, the company has returned to growth and profitability. The company’s strategy remains one of buying its way into profitability, by acquiring companies like Complex, although this strategy may have been hurt by the SPAC withdrawals. After all, BuzzFeed said it needed this deal to make it more able to chase down targets, so having a smaller war chest cannot have been a good thing.

Shareholder Returns

BZFDUS Interactive Media and ServicesUS Market
7D1.0%3.0%2.2%
1Y-57.1%87.6%31.1%

Return vs Industry: BZFD underperformed the US Interactive Media and Services industry which returned 87.6% over the past year.

Return vs Market: BZFD underperformed the US Market which returned 31.1% over the past year.

Price Volatility

Is BZFD's price volatile compared to industry and market?
BZFD volatility
BZFD Average Weekly Movement8.6%
Interactive Media and Services Industry Average Movement8.3%
Market Average Movement7.3%
10% most volatile stocks in US Market16.1%
10% least volatile stocks in US Market3.2%

Stable Share Price: BZFD has not had significant price volatility in the past 3 months compared to the US market.

Volatility Over Time: BZFD's weekly volatility (9%) has been stable over the past year.

About the Company

FoundedEmployeesCEOWebsite
2006507Jonah Perettiwww.buzzfeed.com

BuzzFeed, Inc., a digital media company, distributes content across owned and operated, and third-party platforms in the United States and internationally. The company offers BuzzFeed that provides entertainment, pop culture, and the internet with articles, lists, quizzes, videos, and original series; Tasty, a platform for food content; and HuffPost, a media platform for news, politics, opinion, entertainment, features, and lifestyle content. It also provides display, programmatic, and video advertising on its owned and operated sites and applications, as well as feature films, micro-dramas, content licensing, TV projects, and other projects.

BuzzFeed, Inc. Fundamentals Summary

How do BuzzFeed's earnings and revenue compare to its market cap?
BZFD fundamental statistics
Market capUS$30.98m
Earnings (TTM)-US$57.72m
Revenue (TTM)US$185.27m
0.2x
P/S Ratio
-0.5x
P/E Ratio

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Earnings & Revenue

Key profitability statistics from the latest earnings report (TTM)
BZFD income statement (TTM)
RevenueUS$185.27m
Cost of RevenueUS$107.25m
Gross ProfitUS$78.02m
Other ExpensesUS$135.74m
Earnings-US$57.72m

Last Reported Earnings

Dec 31, 2025

Next Earnings Date

May 11, 2026

Earnings per share (EPS)-1.53
Gross Margin42.11%
Net Profit Margin-31.16%
Debt/Equity Ratio116.6%

How did BZFD perform over the long term?

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Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

DataLast Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis2026/05/11 16:56
End of Day Share Price 2026/05/08 00:00
Earnings2025/12/31
Annual Earnings2025/12/31

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

PackageDataTimeframeExample US Source *
Company Financials10 years
  • Income statement
  • Cash flow statement
  • Balance sheet
Analyst Consensus Estimates+3 years
  • Forecast financials
  • Analyst price targets
Market Prices30 years
  • Stock prices
  • Dividends, Splits and Actions
Ownership10 years
  • Top shareholders
  • Insider trading
Management10 years
  • Leadership team
  • Board of directors
Key Developments10 years
  • Company announcements

* Example for US securities, for non-US equivalent regulatory forms and sources are used.

Unless specified all financial data is based on a yearly period but updated quarterly. This is known as Trailing Twelve Month (TTM) or Last Twelve Month (LTM) Data. Learn more.

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Analyst Sources

BuzzFeed, Inc. is covered by 3 analysts. 1 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

AnalystInstitution
Brent NavonBofA Global Research
Jason KreyerCraig-Hallum Capital Group LLC
John BlackledgeTD Cowen