Kldiscovery Inc's Competitiveness
A competitive positioning analysis and financial ratio benchmarking of Kldiscovery Inc (PVT) against its publicly traded competitors: sales growth, net income, profitability, valuation and market share, plus each peer's market capitalization, revenue, income and employees. Free below: the top 5 peers. Subscriber access adds the full competitor list and CSV downloads.
Key Findings: Kldiscovery Inc vs Its Competitors
- TTM: Trailing 12-month revenue of 324M vs 55,473M combined for tracked competitors (0.6% combined share).
- Trending: Latest-quarter revenue run-rate is decelerating (-2.9% annualized vs trailing 12 months), vs decelerating (-92.1%) for its tracked peer group.
- Growth: Kldiscovery Inc generated -11.6% revenue growth year over year in Q2 2024, vs 10.8% for its tracked competitors combined.
- Profitability: Its -32.2% net margin compares with 6.6% for the peer group.
- Peer revenue share: Kldiscovery Inc accounted for 6.7% of combined revenue among its tracked peer group, down from 8.2% a year earlier.
- Peer differentiation: Revenue per employee of $0.12M compares with $0.36M for the peer group (0.3x).
Every figure above is sourced and cited in detail further down this page (Market Structure, Profitability & Cost Structure, Productivity vs Peers).
PVT Sales vs. its Competitors, Q2 2024
Kldiscovery Inc reported revenue contraction of 11.64 % year on year in Q2 2024, below its competitors' combined revenue growth of 10.83 %.
With a net margin of -32.17 %, Kldiscovery Inc reported lower profitability than its competitors (6.59 %).
Kldiscovery Inc generated 6.67 % of the combined sales of its peer group, down from 8.23 % a year earlier.
Kldiscovery Inc vs. its Competitors, Q2 2024
Revenue growth, year on year
Net margin
Revenue run-rate vs trailing 12 months
TTM net margin
TTM = trailing twelve months. Run-rate annualizes the latest quarter (×4) and compares it to TTM. In millions of $. High-Confidence Competitors are named as a competitor directly in an SEC filing; Similar-Size Competitors are the closest peers by market-cap rank within the same industry; Similar Growth & Profitability Competitors are the closest peers by combined revenue growth, operating margin and ROIC, all independent of the competitor list.
TTM revenue, latest-quarter run-rate and net income/margin benchmarked across Kldiscovery Inc and its 4 competitor groupings. Available under Commercial License.
| Entity | TTM Revenue | Rev Run-rate vs TTM |
|---|---|---|
| Kldiscovery Inc | $12,345M | +12.3% · Accelerating |
| Competitors combined | $12,345M | +12.3% · Accelerating |
| High-Confidence Competitors (5) | $12,345M | +12.3% · Accelerating |
| Similar Growth & Profitability (6) | $12,345M | +12.3% · Accelerating |
TTM revenue, run-rate and net margin benchmarking across Kldiscovery Inc's competitor groups requires a Commercial License.
For context: the Internet Services & Social Media industry grew revenue 20.1% year over year, combined, vs -11.6% for Kldiscovery Inc. Kldiscovery Inc's share of combined industry revenue moved from 0.03% to 0.02%, a loss of 0.01 percentage points.
Kldiscovery Inc's Competitor Quality Breadth
Share of each group, trailing 12 months: profitable (net margin > 0), expanding (revenue growth > 0), growing faster than the industry's own median, and financially distressed (Piotroski F-Score of 2 or below).
| Entity | Profitable | Expanding | Above Industry Growth | Distressed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kldiscovery Inc | No | No | No | Yes |
| Competitors combined (5) | ||||
| High-Confidence Competitors (5) | ||||
| Similar Growth & Profitability (8) | 87.50 % (7 of 8) | 50.00 % (4 of 8) | 0.00 % (0 of 8) | 57.10 % (4 of 7) |
Source: CSIMarket API, trailing 12 months. Altman Z-Score is not shown here: it is not populated in the underlying data for any company. Percentages are of companies in each group that report the relevant metric, not of the full group size.
PVT Stock Performance relative to its Competitors
PVT Stock Performance relative to High-Confidence Competitors
PVT Stock Performance relative to Similar Growth & Profitability Competitors
5 Best-Performing Tracked Competitors, Trailing 12 Months
| # | Competitor | TTM Share Price Return | vs U.S.A. 500 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Intapp Inc | 282.9% | Outperformed |
| 2 | Fti Consulting Inc | 282.9% | Outperformed |
| 3 | Sap Se | 282.9% | Outperformed |
| 4 | Relx Plc | 282.9% | Outperformed |
| 5 | Cs Disco Inc | 282.9% | Outperformed |
TTM share price return and U.S.A. 500 outperformance for Kldiscovery Inc's best-performing tracked competitors requires a Commercial License.
Source: CSIMarket API, trailing 12 months.
Kldiscovery Inc's Comment on Competition and Industry Peers
Software providers
Legacy on-premise software?Providers such as Nuix, Open Text, Relativity, RELX and Thomson Reuters, as well as many other smaller software companies.
Cloud software?Providers such as Everlaw, Logikcull, Relativity through its RelativityOne product offering, and Reveal Data Corporation, as well as many other smaller software companies. CS DISCO, another cloud-native software provider, is also offering a mix of software and human professional services.
Service providers
Legal services?Providers such as Consilio, Epiq Systems, FTI Consulting, the legal services divisions of large professional services firms such as Deloitte, Ernst and Young, KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, as well as an array of smaller regional and local legal services providers. Certain law firms also provide in-house eDiscovery solutions and legal document review services to their clients that may compete with our solutions. We believe the principal competitive factors in this industry include:
breadth of offering;
client service and support;
level of client satisfaction
solution features and capabilities;
flexibility of solution deployment;
ease of access, deployment, implementation, and use;
breadth of geographic coverage;
accuracy, quality and depth of services offered;
quality and use of technology;
cost and predictability of costs;
security; and client relationships and brand loyalty.
There are many small regional eDiscovery providers which may have a few captive relationships but lack the resources or scale to compete for meaningful work. Likewise, most of the global and national providers lack a comprehensive proprietary platform to complement their scale and resources. We believe we are distinctly positioned with an ideal complement of global reach, scale of resources, and proprietary technology to address almost any client need.
Additionally, we serve the data recovery market, which is highly fragmented and generally competitive. Clients choose vendors based on brand awareness and reputation, speed, price, and security. Our competitors in the data recovery market include Drivesavers, Gillware Data Recovery, Stellar Data Recovery, Disk Doctors, Digital Data Recovery DDC, and Myung Information Technologies.
We also compete in the legal hold market with companies such as Exterro, OpenText, ZApproved, and Zylab.
Publicly Traded Peers of Kldiscovery Inc
Revenue and income for trailing 12 months, in millions of $, except employees| Company | Market Cap | Revenues |
|---|---|---|
| Kldiscovery Inc | 428.33 | 323.97 |
| Sap Se | 246,009.75 | 41,216.00 |
| Relx Plc | 60,964.55 | 9,590.00 |
| Fti Consulting Inc | 3,841.15 | 3,923.72 |
| Intapp Inc | 2,817.68 | 577.01 |
| Cs Disco Inc | 268.27 | 166.31 |
| SUBTOTAL | 314,329.73 | 55,797.02 |
Sources: Kldiscovery Inc's official press releases and regulatory filings; CSIMarket.com's market research; and the financial filings and press releases of the other companies cited.
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Kldiscovery Inc's Competitors Named by the Company
Competitive relationships identified from SEC filings and corroborating sources, each with a basis and confidence.| Competitor | Basis | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cs Disco Inc | Named by the company | 85% |
| Open Text | Named by the company | 85% |
| Logikcull | Named by the company | 85% |
| Reveal Data Corporation | Named by the company | 85% |
| Relativity | Named by the company | 85% |
| Nuix | Named by the company | 85% |
| Thomson Reuters | Named by the company | 85% |
| Everlaw | Named by the company | 85% |
| RELX | Named by the company | 85% |
Filing basis, confidence, active dates and source counts for Kldiscovery Inc's named competitors require a Commercial License.
Methodology: relationships are extracted from SEC filings (named-competitor disclosures) and corroborating sources. Named by the company = explicitly disclosed as a competitor; Inferred = derived from corroborating signals. Confidence reflects evidence strength.
Kldiscovery Inc's Business Segment Mix vs Peers
Revenue by operating segment or division, as named and reported by each company. Segment names are the filer's own and are not standardized across companies. Do not assume a same-named or similarly-named segment is defined identically between two companies. Shares are of each company's own total revenue and are not required to sum to 100% (intersegment revenue, unallocated items).| Company | Largest Segment |
|---|---|
| Fti Consulting Inc | Corporate Finance 41.64 % |
Source: operating segment revenue as reported in each company's SEC filings (10-K/10-Q), via the CSIMarket API, leaf-level reportable segments only (parent roll-up segments are excluded where sub-segments are separately disclosed).
Kldiscovery Inc's Productivity vs Peers Comparison
Revenue and income per employee, trailing 12 months, in $; market cap in millions of $| Company | Market Cap | Revenue / Employee | Income / Employee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kldiscovery Inc | 428 | 120,571 | -25,234 |
| Sap Se | 246,010 | 374,691 | 74,592 |
| Relx Plc | 60,965 | 290,606 | 62,970 |
| Fti Consulting Inc | 3,841 | 483,336 | 31,139 |
| Intapp Inc | 2,818 | 430,607 | -30,828 |
| Cs Disco Inc | 268 | 288,234 | -70,092 |
| PEERS TOTAL | 313,901 | 362,486 | 68,312 |
Kldiscovery Inc's Geographic Revenue Exposure vs Peers
Revenue by country/region as reported in each company's most recent filing. Disclosure granularity varies by filer (some report by country, others by broad region) and is shown as disclosed.| Company | Largest Market |
|---|---|
| Intapp Inc | United States 67.80 % |
| Cs Disco Inc | Non-US 11.21 % |
Source: revenue geography as reported in each company's SEC filings (10-K/10-Q), via the CSIMarket API. Percentages are of that company's own total consolidated revenue for its most recent reported period.
Kldiscovery Inc's Profitability & Cost Structure
Trailing 12-month margins from SEC-filed financials. Operating margin is compared to the Internet Services & Social Media industry median; gross margin, EBITDA margin and capital intensity are compared to the live industry average (112 companies).| Metric | Company | Industry | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross Margin | 48.94 % | 53.20 % (avg) | -4.3 pp |
| Operating Margin | 1.70 % | industry median | +3.6 pp |
| EBITDA Margin | -0.80 % | 8.63 % (avg) | -9.4 pp |
| Capital Intensity (Capex / Revenue) | 4.59 % | 6.24 % (avg) | -1.7 pp |
Source: CSIMarket API, trailing 12 months. SG&A and R&D as a share of revenue have limited coverage as this data is backfilled and appear only where reported. Higher capital intensity is not inherently negative; it reflects the industry's asset requirements.
Kldiscovery Inc's Multi-Year Financial Trajectory
Fiscal-year revenue growth, operating margin, return on invested capital and P/E, as reported in SEC filings.| Metric | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue Growth | - | - | 10.68 % | -0.95 % | 8.65 % |
| Operating Margin | - | 0.62 % | -1.65 % | 3.79 % | 9.94 % |
| Return on Invested Capital | 0.66 % | 0.23 % | -0.74 % | 1.92 % | 10.73 % |
| P/E | - | - | - | - | - |
Source: CSIMarket API, fiscal-year figures. P/E is this company's own historical ratio at each fiscal year end and can swing sharply around an earnings trough: that is real, not a data error.
Kldiscovery Inc's Strategic Group Map
Every company in Kldiscovery Inc's industry and named-competitor list, plotted by trailing 12-month revenue growth and operating margin. Kldiscovery Inc is shown in red; its closest peers by combined growth, margin and ROIC (the Similar Growth & Profitability group above) are labeled.
Source: CSIMarket API, trailing 12 months. Extreme outlier values (from near-zero-revenue companies) are excluded from the plotted cloud but never from the highlighted company or its labeled peers.
Kldiscovery Inc's Competitive Forces (Porter's Five Forces)
Only the forces this data can support honestly are shown; the other three are marked as such rather than guessed.| Force | Assessment | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Barriers to Entry | Lower than typical for the industry | Capital intensity (capex / revenue) of 4.59 % vs industry average 6.24 % (see Profitability & Cost Structure above) |
| Supplier Power | Not covered on this page | See Kldiscovery Inc's dedicated suppliers page for concentration and dependency data |
| Buyer Power | Not covered on this page | See Kldiscovery Inc's dedicated customers page for concentration and dependency data |
| Threat of Substitutes | - | No systematic data source for cross-product substitution exists in this system; not estimated |
Note: this is a partial, data-grounded application of the framework, not a complete strategic assessment. Rivalry and barriers-to-entry readings are mechanical translations of the HHI and capital-intensity figures shown elsewhere on this page, not independent judgments.
Kldiscovery Inc's Industry Attractiveness & Competitive Strength
A CSIMarket composite, not a standard field: each axis is an equal-weighted average of three factors already shown elsewhere on this page (industry growth, industry profitability and rivalry for attractiveness; relative market share, profitability and growth vs industry for strength). Disclosed as a designed methodology, not a precision measurement.
Kldiscovery Inc falls in the Low attractiveness / Low strength cell: Harvest / Divest.
Source: CSIMarket API, trailing 12 months. Each axis score is a simple 1(low)/2(medium)/3(high) average across its three inputs -- a transparent, disclosed simplification, not a validated academic scoring model.
Kldiscovery Inc's SWOT
Every point below is a fixed rule applied to a metric already shown elsewhere on this page (Market Structure, Profitability, Valuation, Run-Rate, Stock Performance, Quality Breadth) not an independent strategic assessment. A blank quadrant means no rule was met, not that none apply.Strengths
- Return on equity 740.7 points above the industry aggregate.
Weaknesses
- Latest-quarter revenue run-rate is decelerating (-2.9% annualized vs trailing 12 months).
- Piotroski F-Score of 2 or below, the standard financial-distress signal.
Opportunities
No rule matched.
Threats
- Tracked peer group's revenue run-rate is broadly decelerating (-92.1% annualized).
Methodology: mechanical, rule-based SWOT. Each bullet reuses a figure already sourced and cited elsewhere on this page; nothing here is generated narrative or independent analyst judgment.
Kldiscovery Inc's Financial Strength vs Peers Comparison
Quick ratio, working capital, debt to equity and asset turnover, trailing 12 months| Company | Quick Ratio | Working Capital | Debt / Equity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kldiscovery Inc | - | 0.26 | - |
| Sap Se | 0.47 | 1.16 | - |
| Relx Plc | 0.02 | 0.49 | - |
| Fti Consulting Inc | 0.24 | 1.90 | 0.41 |
| Intapp Inc | 0.63 | 1.00 | - |
| Cs Disco Inc | 0.51 | 3.91 | - |
Quick ratio = cash / current liabilities; working capital ratio = current assets / current liabilities; asset turnover = revenue / total assets. Peers in the Blank Checks industry are excluded.
Kldiscovery Inc's Revenue and Income Growth vs Peers
Quarterly revenue and net income growth, year over year and quarter over quarter| Company | Period | Revenue Y/Y | Income Y/Y |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kldiscovery Inc | Q2 2024 | -11.6 % | - |
| Sap Se | Q4 2025 | +7.7 % | +132.6 % |
| Relx Plc | Q4 2025 | +1.7 % | +6.9 % |
| Fti Consulting Inc | Q2 2026 | +5.3 % | -19.4 % |
| Intapp Inc | Q2 2026 | +11.4 % | - |
| Cs Disco Inc | Q2 2026 | +13.2 % | - |
| PEERS TOTAL | +6.4 % | +86.4 % |
Growth is shown only where both periods are positive. Peers in the Blank Checks industry are excluded.
Kldiscovery Inc's Peers' Costs of Sales and Capital Expenditures
Context for revenue growth: peer costs and capex, year over year and quarter over quarter| Company | Period | Costs Y/Y | Capex Y/Y |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kldiscovery Inc | Q2 2024 | -9.1 % | -9.8 % |
| Sap Se | Q4 2025 | +8.0 % | - |
| Relx Plc | Q4 2025 | +1.1 % | +8.4 % |
| Fti Consulting Inc | Q2 2026 | +5.6 % | -35.3 % |
| Intapp Inc | Q2 2026 | -5.1 % | -19.0 % |
| Cs Disco Inc | Q2 2026 | +13.9 % | +19.4 % |
Kldiscovery Inc's Returns and Turnover vs Peers
ROA, ROI and ROE (trailing 12 months), receivables and inventory turnover| Company | ROA | ROI | ROE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kldiscovery Inc | - | - | - |
| Sap Se | 10.41% | 13.84% | 16.25% |
| Relx Plc | 14.08% | 13.60% | 86.95% |
| Fti Consulting Inc | 7.21% | 8.94% | 15.61% |
| Intapp Inc | - | - | - |
| Cs Disco Inc | - | - | - |
ROA = net income / total assets; ROI = net income / investments; ROE = net income / equity; turnover ratios use trailing 12 month revenue (receivables) and cost of sales (inventory).
Kldiscovery Inc's Valuation vs Peers
P/E, price to sales, PEG, price to cash flow and price to book| Company | P/E | Price / Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Kldiscovery Inc | - | 1.32 |
| Sap Se | 34.35 | 5.97 |
| Relx Plc | 22.38 | 6.36 |
| Fti Consulting Inc | 16.23 | 0.98 |
| Intapp Inc | - | 4.88 |
| Cs Disco Inc | - | 1.61 |
| PEERS AVERAGE | 30.26 | 5.63 |
P/E = price / diluted EPS (trailing 12 months); PEG = P/E divided by EPS growth; the average row divides the peers' combined market cap by their combined income, sales, cash flow and equity.