Vivakor (NASDAQ:VIVK – Get Free Report) and NextNav (NASDAQ:NN – Get Free Report) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings and risk.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
12.3% of Vivakor shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.2% of NextNav shares are held by institutional investors. 12.2% of Vivakor shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.7% of NextNav shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Profitability
This table compares Vivakor and NextNav’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Vivakor | -55.68% | -61.59% | -26.59% |
| NextNav | -3,109.88% | -556.83% | -45.92% |
Analyst Ratings
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Vivakor | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| NextNav | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.50 |
Volatility and Risk
Vivakor has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NextNav has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Vivakor and NextNav”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Vivakor | $125.11 million | 0.02 | -$22.19 million | ($3.12) | 0.00 |
| NextNav | $5.67 million | 402.35 | -$101.88 million | ($1.30) | -13.02 |
Vivakor has higher revenue and earnings than NextNav. NextNav is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vivakor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Vivakor beats NextNav on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Vivakor
Vivakor, Inc. operates, acquires, and develops technologies and assets in the oil and gas industry and related environmental solutions in the United States and Kuwait. The company owns and operates a crude oil gathering, storage, and transportation facility in Delhi, Louisiana. It also owns a crude oil storage tank located near Colorado City, Texas. In addition, the company offers remediation of soil and the extraction of hydrocarbons, such as oil from properties contaminated by or laden with heavy crude oil and other hydrocarbon-based substances. The company was formerly known as NGI Holdings, LLC and changed its name to Vivakor, Inc. in April 2008. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Dallas, Texas.
About NextNav
NextNav Inc. provides next generation positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) solutions in the United States. It offers Pinnacle, a dedicated vertical positioning network to cover entire metropolitan areas including devices equipped with a barometric pressure sensor with the highest quality wide-area altitude service. The company also provides TerraPoiNT, an 3D PNT system, provides positioning, navigation and timing services provided by GPS through a land-based GPS satellite constellation. It serves Wi-Fi, telecom, public safety, gaming and location apps, and critical infrastructure applications. NextNav Inc. was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.
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