Contrasting Kaltura (KLTR) and The Competition

Kaltura (NASDAQ:KLTR) is one of 953 public companies in the “Software” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its rivals? We will compare Kaltura to related companies based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Kaltura and its rivals top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Kaltura	$180.93 million	-$12.07 million	-15.89
Kaltura Competitors	$1.93 billion	$386.97 million	109.20

Kaltura’s rivals have higher revenue and earnings than Kaltura. Kaltura is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

30.8% of Kaltura shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.9% of shares of all “Software” companies are held by institutional investors. 16.3% of Kaltura shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 20.0% of shares of all “Software” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Kaltura and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Kaltura	-6.92%	-51.05%	-2.33%
Kaltura Competitors	-607.02%	22.93%	-8.85%

Volatility & Risk

Kaltura has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kaltura’s rivals have a beta of 1.34, suggesting that their average share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Kaltura and its rivals, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Kaltura	1	0	1	0	2.00
Kaltura Competitors	5750	21539	44908	1497	2.57

Kaltura currently has a consensus price target of $3.00, suggesting a potential upside of 109.79%. As a group, “Software” companies have a potential upside of 29.02%. Given Kaltura’s higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Kaltura is more favorable than its rivals.

Summary

Kaltura rivals beat Kaltura on 10 of the 13 factors compared.

About Kaltura

Kaltura, Inc. provides various software-as-a-service (SaaS) products and solutions and a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Enterprise, Education, and Technology (EE&T); and Media and Telecom (M&T). It offers video products, such as virtual and hybrid events, webinars, video portals, online learning, and content portals for training, marketing, virtual and hybrid events, communication, collaboration, sales, and customer care; and education solutions, such as learning management system video and lecture capture solutions. The company also provides online video experiences, including for over-the-top (OTT) television, cloud TV, web video publishing, video-based teaching, learning, training, video-based marketing, and video-based collaboration. In addition, it offers application programming interfaces (APIs), software development kits, and experience components, including live, real-time and on-demand video, ingestion, transcoding, enrichment, management, distribution, engagement, monetization, and deep viewer analytics, as well as video player, video editor, video capture tool, and chat and networking widgets. The company serves a range of industries, including financial services, high technology, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, education, public sector, media, telecommunications, information technology (IT) and professional services, retail, and manufacturing. Kaltura, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in New York, New York.