Kaltura (NASDAQ:KLTR – Get Free Report) and EverCommerce (NASDAQ:EVCM – Get Free Report) are both small-cap technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
30.8% of Kaltura shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.9% of EverCommerce shares are held by institutional investors. 16.3% of Kaltura shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.1% of EverCommerce 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.
Profitability
This table compares Kaltura and EverCommerce’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Kaltura | -6.92% | -51.05% | -2.33% |
| EverCommerce | 5.69% | 3.95% | 2.06% |
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Kaltura | $180.85 million | 1.11 | -$12.07 million | ($0.09) | -14.67 |
| EverCommerce | $588.91 million | 2.74 | $17.60 million | $0.18 | 50.78 |
EverCommerce has higher revenue and earnings than Kaltura. Kaltura is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EverCommerce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Volatility and Risk
Kaltura has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EverCommerce has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings for Kaltura and EverCommerce, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Kaltura | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| EverCommerce | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2.10 |
Kaltura presently has a consensus price target of $3.00, suggesting a potential upside of 127.27%. EverCommerce has a consensus price target of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 20.35%. Given Kaltura’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Kaltura is more favorable than EverCommerce.
Summary
EverCommerce beats Kaltura on 11 of the 14 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 EverCommerce
EverCommerce Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides integrated software-as-a-service solutions for service-based small and medium sized businesses in the United States and internationally. The company’s solutions include business management software that offers route-based dispatching, medical practice management, and gym member management solutions; billing and payment solutions comprising e-invoicing, mobile payments, and integrated payment processing; customer experience solution, which include reputation management and messaging solutions; and marketing technology solutions that cover websites, hosting, and digital lead generation. It also provides EverPro suite of solutions in home services; EverHealth suite of solutions within health services; and EverWell suite of solutions in fitness and wellness services. In addition, the company offers professional services, such as implementation, configuration, installation, or training services. It serves home service professionals, including home improvement contractors and home maintenance technicians; physician practices and therapists in the health services industry; and personal trainers and salon owners in the fitness and wellness sectors. The company was formerly known as PaySimple Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to EverCommerce Inc. in December 2020. EverCommerce Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
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