Kaltura (NASDAQ:KLTR – Get Free Report) and Commerce.com (NASDAQ:CMRC – Get Free Report) are both small-cap technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and profitability.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Kaltura and Commerce.com”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Kaltura | $180.85 million | 1.18 | -$12.07 million | ($0.09) | -15.56 |
| Commerce.com | $346.90 million | 0.83 | -$19.34 million | ($0.07) | -49.71 |
Kaltura has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Commerce.com. Commerce.com is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kaltura, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Volatility & Risk
Kaltura has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Commerce.com has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
30.8% of Kaltura shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.2% of Commerce.com shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.3% of Kaltura shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Commerce.com shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Profitability
This table compares Kaltura and Commerce.com’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Kaltura | -6.92% | -51.05% | -2.33% |
| Commerce.com | -1.66% | 20.49% | 2.92% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Kaltura and Commerce.com, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Kaltura | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Commerce.com | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2.00 |
Kaltura currently has a consensus target price of $3.00, indicating a potential upside of 114.29%. Commerce.com has a consensus target price of $4.17, indicating a potential upside of 19.73%. Given Kaltura’s higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Kaltura is more favorable than Commerce.com.
Summary
Commerce.com beats Kaltura on 7 of the 13 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 Commerce.com
BigCommerce Holdings, Inc. operates a software-as-a-service platform for small businesses, mid-markets, and large enterprises in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, and internationally. The company’s platform provides various services for launching and scaling e-commerce operation, including store design, catalog management, hosting, checkout, order management, reporting, and pre-integrations. As of December 31, 2021, it served approximately 60,000 online stores across industries. BigCommerce Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
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