Kaltura (NASDAQ:KLTR – Get Free Report) and SS&C Technologies (NASDAQ:SSNC – Get Free Report) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership and valuation.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
30.8% of Kaltura shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.9% of SS&C Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.1% of Kaltura shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.4% of SS&C Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Kaltura and SS&C Technologies”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Kaltura | $176.83 million | 1.13 | -$46.37 million | ($0.33) | -4.12 |
| SS&C Technologies | $5.66 billion | 3.30 | $607.10 million | $2.51 | 30.09 |
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Kaltura and SS&C Technologies, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Kaltura | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2.33 |
| SS&C Technologies | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2.63 |
Kaltura currently has a consensus price target of $2.67, indicating a potential upside of 96.08%. SS&C Technologies has a consensus price target of $73.75, indicating a potential downside of 2.36%. Given Kaltura’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Kaltura is more favorable than SS&C Technologies.
Profitability
This table compares Kaltura and SS&C Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Kaltura | -24.82% | -155.01% | -24.34% |
| SS&C Technologies | 12.33% | 17.43% | 6.50% |
Risk & Volatility
Kaltura has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SS&C Technologies has a beta of 1.38, indicating that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
SS&C Technologies beats Kaltura on 13 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 SS&C Technologies
SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides software products and software-enabled services to financial services and healthcare industries. The company owns and operates technology stack across securities accounting; front-office functions, such as trading and modeling; middle-office functions comprising portfolio management and reporting; back-office functions, such as accounting, performance measurement, reconciliation, reporting, processing and clearing, and compliance and tax reporting; and healthcare solutions consisting of claims adjudication, benefit management, care management, and business intelligence solutions. Its products and services allow professionals in the financial services and healthcare industries to automate complex business processes and are instrumental in helping its clients to manage information processing requirements. The company's software-enabled services include SS&C GlobeOp, Global Investor and Distribution Solutions, SS&C Retirement Solutions, Black Diamond Wealth Platform, CRM Solutions, Advent Managed Services, Advent Data Solutions, ALPS Advisors, and Virtual Data Rooms, as well as pharmacy, healthcare administration, and health outcomes optimization solutions. Its software products comprise portfolio/investment accounting and analytics software, portfolio management software, trading software, automation solutions, and banking and lending solutions, as well as research, analytics, risk, and training solutions. The company also provides professional services that includes consulting and implementation services consisting of initial system installation, conversion of historical data, and ongoing training and support, as well as product support services. It operates in the United States; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; the Asia Pacific and Japan; Canada; and the Americas. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut.
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