Reviewing Kyndryl (NYSE:KD) and Zenvia (NASDAQ:ZENV)

Kyndryl (NYSE:KD) and Zenvia (NASDAQ:ZENV) are both technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk and profitability.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Kyndryl and Zenvia, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Kyndryl	2	7	0	0	1.78
Zenvia	1	0	0	0	1.00

Kyndryl presently has a consensus target price of $16.50, indicating a potential upside of 41.86%. Given Kyndryl’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Kyndryl is more favorable than Zenvia.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

71.5% of Kyndryl shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.2% of Zenvia shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Kyndryl shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 78.4% of Zenvia shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Kyndryl and Zenvia’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Kyndryl	0.58%	12.24%	1.33%
Zenvia	-10.62%	-14.36%	-6.52%

Risk and Volatility

Kyndryl has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zenvia has a beta of 1.86, indicating that its stock price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Kyndryl and Zenvia”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Kyndryl	$15.09 billion	0.17	$199.00 million	$0.37	31.44
Zenvia	$1.10 billion	0.02	-$28.67 million	($0.40)	-1.17

Kyndryl has higher revenue and earnings than Zenvia. Zenvia is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kyndryl, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Kyndryl beats Zenvia on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Kyndryl

Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. operates as a technology services company and IT infrastructure services provider worldwide. The company offers cloud services; core enterprise and zCloud services; application, data, and artificial intelligence services; digital workplace services; security and resiliency services; and network services and edge services. It serves financial, communications, retail and travel, and automotive industries. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

About Zenvia

Zenvia Inc. provides customer experience communications platform which empowers businesses to create unique journeys for their end-customers along their life cycle across range of B2C verticals. Zenvia Inc. is based in S?O PAULO.