Synchronoss Technologies (NASDAQ:SNCR) & Klaviyo (NYSE:KVYO) Head-To-Head Survey

Klaviyo (NYSE:KVYO) and Synchronoss Technologies (NASDAQ:SNCR) are both technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Klaviyo and Synchronoss Technologies”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Klaviyo	$1.23 billion	3.90	-$31.77 million	$0.02	844.10
Synchronoss Technologies	$170.91 million	0.61	$6.17 million	($1.02)	-8.82

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

Risk and Volatility

Klaviyo has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Synchronoss Technologies has a beta of 1.41, meaning that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Klaviyo and Synchronoss Technologies, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Klaviyo	1	3	17	1	2.82
Synchronoss Technologies	1	1	0	0	1.50

Klaviyo presently has a consensus target price of $27.14, suggesting a potential upside of 60.78%. Given Klaviyo’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Klaviyo is more favorable than Synchronoss Technologies.

Profitability

This table compares Klaviyo and Synchronoss Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Klaviyo	0.49%	5.67%	4.25%
Synchronoss Technologies	-5.69%	24.44%	3.59%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

45.4% of Klaviyo shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.7% of Synchronoss Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 37.4% of Klaviyo shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.9% of Synchronoss Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Klaviyo beats Synchronoss Technologies on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About Synchronoss Technologies

Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. provides cloud, messaging, digital, and network management solutions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company offers Synchronoss Personal Cloud platform that allows customers' subscribers to backup and protect, engage with, and manage their personal content. It also provides Synchronoss' Messaging platform comprising advanced messaging platform and email suites; and OnboardX products, including mobile content transfer solution that offers wireless transfer of content from one mobile smart device to another in a carrier retail location or at home/work, etc., as well as out of box experience solution, a device setup solution that assists customers in setting up the features of new device, such as Wi-Fi, email, social network accounts and voicemail, prompting restoration of content, and enrollment in a cloud service. In addition, the company provides NetworkX products comprising spatialNX, an enterprise-wide access to network information, including physical location, specifications, attributes, connectivity, and capacity for every plant asset; ConnectNX, a system that eliminates manual handling of service orders and manages the full order lifecycle between customer and supplier through automation and rules-based validation; and ExpenseNX, a financial analytics platform. Further, it offers professional services, such as consulting, installation and deployment, configuration, systems integration, and support services; and software development and customization services. The company markets and sells its services through direct sales force and strategic partners. Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey.