Kaltura (NASDAQ:KLTR – Get Free Report) and Expensify (NASDAQ:EXFY – Get Free Report) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Volatility and Risk
Kaltura has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Expensify has a beta of 1.9, meaning that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
30.8% of Kaltura shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.4% of Expensify shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.3% of Kaltura shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.3% of Expensify shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Analyst Recommendations
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Kaltura | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Expensify | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2.25 |
Kaltura currently has a consensus target price of $2.25, suggesting a potential upside of 0.00%. Expensify has a consensus target price of $2.83, suggesting a potential downside of 26.79%. Given Kaltura’s higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Kaltura is more favorable than Expensify.
Profitability
This table compares Kaltura and Expensify’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Kaltura | -20.71% | -139.50% | -20.35% |
| Expensify | -11.81% | -14.72% | -8.89% |
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Kaltura and Expensify”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Kaltura | $177.59 million | 1.90 | -$46.37 million | ($0.26) | -8.65 |
| Expensify | $137.44 million | 2.17 | -$41.46 million | ($0.18) | -21.50 |
Expensify has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kaltura. Expensify is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kaltura, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Expensify beats Kaltura on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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.
About Expensify
Expensify, Inc. provides a cloud-based expense management software platform to individuals and corporations, small and midsized businesses, and enterprises in the United States and internationally. The company’s platform enables users to manage corporate cards, pay bills, generate invoices, collect payments, and book travel. It also offers track and submit plans for individuals. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Portland, Oregon.
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