Critical Review: Keel Infrastructure (KEEL) & Its Peers

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

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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

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%

Risk & Volatility

Keel Infrastructure has a beta of 4.06, indicating that its stock price is 306% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Keel Infrastructure’s competitors have a beta of 1.07, indicating that their average stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Keel Infrastructure and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	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 presently has a consensus price target of $6.25, suggesting 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 plainly believe Keel Infrastructure has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Keel Infrastructure and its competitors top-line 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	$1.82 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.

Summary

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

About Keel Infrastructure

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