Klaviyo (KVYO) and Its Competitors Head to Head Survey

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

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Klaviyo	-5.23%	0.86%	0.73%
Klaviyo Competitors	-57.22%	-28.65%	-7.66%

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Klaviyo	$868.92 million	-$308.23 million	-202.94
Klaviyo Competitors	$2.43 billion	$336.94 million	5.95

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

Volatility and Risk

Klaviyo has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Klaviyo’s competitors have a beta of 0.44, suggesting that their average stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Klaviyo and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Klaviyo	0	3	15	0	2.83
Klaviyo Competitors	2376	16036	31466	876	2.61

Klaviyo currently has a consensus target price of $39.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.76%. As a group, “Prepackaged software” companies have a potential upside of 5.59%. Given Klaviyo’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Klaviyo is more favorable than its competitors.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

45.4% of Klaviyo shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.9% of shares of all “Prepackaged software” companies are owned by institutional investors. 53.2% of Klaviyo shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 18.9% of shares of all “Prepackaged software” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Klaviyo beats its competitors on 8 of the 13 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.