Head-To-Head Comparison: Vivakor (NASDAQ:VIVK) vs. NextNav (NASDAQ:NN)

NextNav (NASDAQ:NN) and Vivakor (NASDAQ:VIVK) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.

Volatility & Risk

NextNav has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vivakor has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

79.2% of NextNav shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.3% of Vivakor shares are held by institutional investors. 7.7% of NextNav shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.2% of Vivakor shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for NextNav and Vivakor, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NextNav	1	1	0	0	1.50
Vivakor	1	0	0	0	1.00

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares NextNav and Vivakor”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
NextNav	$5.67 million	389.03	-$101.88 million	($1.30)	-12.58
Vivakor	$125.11 million	0.01	-$22.19 million	($3.12)	0.00

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.

Profitability

This table compares NextNav and Vivakor’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NextNav	-3,109.88%	-556.83%	-45.92%
Vivakor	-55.68%	-61.59%	-26.59%

Summary

Vivakor beats NextNav on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

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.