Financial Contrast: Vivakor (VIVKD) vs. Its Rivals

Vivakor (OTCMKTS:VIVKD) is one of 273 public companies in the “IT Services” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Vivakor to similar businesses based on the strength of its valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.

Profitability

This table compares Vivakor and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Vivakor	-105.57%	-141.06%	-56.70%
Vivakor Competitors	-190.51%	-32.79%	-8.37%

Risk & Volatility

Vivakor has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vivakor’s competitors have a beta of 2.16, indicating that their average stock price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for Vivakor and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Vivakor	1	0	0	0	1.00
Vivakor Competitors	2009	5684	9514	343	2.47

As a group, “IT Services” companies have a potential upside of 24.54%. Given Vivakor’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Vivakor has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

12.3% of Vivakor shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.4% of shares of all “IT Services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 12.2% of Vivakor shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.4% of shares of all “IT Services” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Vivakor and its competitors revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Vivakor	$104.42 million	-$110.23 million	-0.00
Vivakor Competitors	$3.51 billion	$223.00 million	-20.32

Vivakor’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Vivakor. Vivakor is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Vivakor competitors beat Vivakor on 11 of the 13 factors compared.

Vivakor Company Profile

Vivakor, Inc. is an environmental technology and resource recovery company focused on converting contaminated materials into usable resources. Its operations center on the remediation of soil and other materials affected by hydrocarbons and industrial waste, with the goal of recovering valuable oil and other substances while reducing environmental contamination. The company develops and deploys proprietary processing technologies designed to separate hydrocarbons from contaminated soil. Vivakor has also pursued the development of remediation processing centers that can receive, treat and process oil-contaminated materials.