Critical Review: Keel Infrastructure (KEEL) & Its Rivals

Keel Infrastructure (NASDAQ:KEEL) is one of 958 publicly-traded companies in the “Software” industry, but how does it contrast to its rivals? We will compare Keel Infrastructure to related businesses based on the strength of its risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Profitability

This table compares Keel Infrastructure and its rivals’ 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	-628.32%	26.00%	-9.06%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

20.6% of Keel Infrastructure shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.1% 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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Risk and Volatility

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

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Keel Infrastructure and its rivals, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Keel Infrastructure	1	0	7	0	2.75
Keel Infrastructure Competitors	5532	21170	44216	1463	2.57

Keel Infrastructure currently has a consensus target price of $6.25, indicating a potential upside of 70.91%. As a group, “Software” companies have a potential upside of 335.43%. Given Keel Infrastructure’s rivals higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Keel Infrastructure has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Keel Infrastructure and its rivals top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Keel Infrastructure	$188.14 million	-$284.54 million	-12.19
Keel Infrastructure Competitors	$1.84 billion	$388.38 million	104.34

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

Summary

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

About Keel Infrastructure

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