Klaviyo (NYSE:KVYO) & Datavault AI (NASDAQ:DVLT) Critical Review

Datavault AI (NASDAQ:DVLT) and Klaviyo (NYSE:KVYO) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Datavault AI and Klaviyo, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Datavault AI	1	0	1	0	2.00
Klaviyo	1	3	18	2	2.88

Datavault AI currently has a consensus price target of $4.00, suggesting a potential upside of 370.48%. Klaviyo has a consensus price target of $41.05, suggesting a potential upside of 114.46%. Given Datavault AI’s higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Datavault AI is more favorable than Klaviyo.

Profitability

This table compares Datavault AI and Klaviyo’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Datavault AI	-1,394.07%	-100.90%	-75.51%
Klaviyo	-5.70%	-1.00%	-0.79%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

0.7% of Datavault AI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.4% of Klaviyo shares are held by institutional investors. 7.7% of Datavault AI shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 49.9% of Klaviyo shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Datavault AI and Klaviyo”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Datavault AI	$2.67 million	182.66	-$51.41 million	($1.05)	-0.81
Klaviyo	$937.46 million	6.16	-$46.14 million	($0.24)	-79.75

Klaviyo has higher revenue and earnings than Datavault AI. Klaviyo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Datavault AI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility & Risk

Datavault AI has a beta of 0.15, meaning that its stock price is 85% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Klaviyo has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Klaviyo beats Datavault AI on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Datavault AI

Datavault AI Inc., a data sciences technology company, owns and operates data management and supercomputer platforms. It offers data technology and software solutions. The company was formerly known as WiSA Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Datavault AI Inc. in February 2025. Datavault AI Inc. was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon.

About Klaviyo

Klaviyo, Inc., a technology company, provides a software-as-a-service platform in the United States, other Americas, the Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company offers Klaviyo, a cloud-native platform for data store, segmentation engine, campaigns and flows, and messaging infrastructure. It also provides email to send personalized marketing emails, including drag-and-drop email templates to edit and customize pre-built templates; email campaigns and automations with smart send time features, generative artificial intelligence for subject line creation, A/B testing tools, and consumer list segmentation; short message services to send targeted marketing text messages to consumers, as well as built-in contact cards to ensure that texts does not appear as random numbers; and push, a personalized push notification to engage with consumer. In addition, the company offers other applications, such as reviews, which collect product reviews; and customer data platform that allows to manage, deploy, transform, and sync data. It serves its products to entrepreneurs, small and medium-sized businesses to mid-market businesses, and enterprises. The was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.