Keel Infrastructure (KEEL) and Its Peers Critical Review

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

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Keel Infrastructure and its peers, 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 peers higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Keel Infrastructure has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Volatility and Risk

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 peers have a beta of 1.19, meaning that their average stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

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

Profitability

This table compares Keel Infrastructure and its peers’ 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 peers gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) 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 peers have higher revenue and earnings than Keel Infrastructure. Keel Infrastructure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

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

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