Klaviyo (KVYO) & Its Peers Financial Contrast

Klaviyo (NYSE:KVYO) is one of 455 publicly-traded companies in the “Prepackaged software” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Klaviyo to related companies based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, earnings, profitability and risk.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Klaviyo and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Klaviyo	$698.10 million	-$308.23 million	-185.32
Klaviyo Competitors	$2.06 billion	$337.89 million	-6.83

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

Volatility and Risk

Klaviyo has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Klaviyo’s peers have a beta of 0.42, meaning that their average stock price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

45.4% of Klaviyo shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.1% of shares of all “Prepackaged software” companies are owned by institutional investors. 53.2% of Klaviyo shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.8% of shares of all “Prepackaged software” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Klaviyo and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Klaviyo	-5.23%	0.87%	0.74%
Klaviyo Competitors	-59.78%	-32.34%	-7.77%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Klaviyo and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Klaviyo	0	3	15	0	2.83
Klaviyo Competitors	2370	16009	31427	875	2.61

Klaviyo currently has a consensus target price of $39.00, indicating a potential upside of 16.91%. As a group, “Prepackaged software” companies have a potential upside of 7.10%. Given Klaviyo’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Klaviyo is more favorable than its peers.

Summary

Klaviyo beats its peers on 8 of the 12 factors compared.

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.