Financial Analysis: Keel Infrastructure (KEEL) & The Competition

Keel Infrastructure (NASDAQ:KEEL) is one of 957 publicly-traded companies in the “Software” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare Keel Infrastructure to related companies based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, profitability, valuation and earnings.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

20.6% of Keel Infrastructure shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.2% of shares of all “Software” companies are held by institutional investors. 9.5% of Keel Infrastructure shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.8% of shares of all “Software” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

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

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Keel Infrastructure	1	0	7	0	2.75
Keel Infrastructure Competitors	5535	21180	44218	1463	2.57

Keel Infrastructure currently has a consensus target price of $6.25, indicating a potential upside of 55.86%. As a group, “Software” companies have a potential upside of 335.70%. Given Keel Infrastructure’s competitors higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Keel Infrastructure has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Keel Infrastructure	-230.59%	-66.18%	-27.74%
Keel Infrastructure Competitors	-627.42%	25.96%	-9.06%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Keel Infrastructure and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Keel Infrastructure	$229.28 million	-$284.54 million	-13.37
Keel Infrastructure Competitors	$1.81 billion	$388.27 million	104.22

Keel Infrastructure’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Keel Infrastructure. Keel Infrastructure 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.

Risk & Volatility

Keel Infrastructure has a beta of 4.06, meaning that its share price is 306% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Keel Infrastructure’s competitors have a beta of 1.19, meaning that their average share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Keel Infrastructure competitors beat Keel Infrastructure on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

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