Vivakor (OTCMKTS:VIVKD – Get Free Report) and Rimini Street (NASDAQ:RMNI – Get Free Report) are both small-cap technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings and profitability.
Risk & Volatility
Vivakor has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rimini Street has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Vivakor and Rimini Street”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Vivakor | $104.42 million | 0.01 | -$110.23 million | ($624.00) | -0.00 |
| Rimini Street | $421.54 million | 0.92 | $37.10 million | $0.08 | 52.00 |
Rimini Street has higher revenue and earnings than Vivakor. Vivakor is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rimini Street, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Vivakor and Rimini Street’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Vivakor | -105.57% | -141.06% | -56.70% |
| Rimini Street | 1.69% | -53.91% | 3.24% |
Institutional & Insider Ownership
12.3% of Vivakor shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.8% of Rimini Street shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.2% of Vivakor shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 42.0% of Rimini Street shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings for Vivakor and Rimini Street, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Vivakor | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| Rimini Street | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2.50 |
Rimini Street has a consensus target price of $6.33, suggesting a potential upside of 52.24%. Given Rimini Street’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Rimini Street is more favorable than Vivakor.
Summary
Rimini Street beats Vivakor on 14 of the 14 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 Rimini Street
Rimini Street, Inc. provides enterprise software products, services, and support. The company engages in the provision of support services for Oracle and SAP enterprise software products. It also provides Rimini ONE, an outsourcing option that offers a set of unified and integrated services to run, manage, support, customize, configure, connect, protect, monitor, and optimize its clients’ application, database, and technology enterprise software; Rimini Support, a mission-critical support for Oracle, SAP, proprietary and open-source database, and technology software; Rimini Manage, a suite of managed services for application and database software; Rimini Protect, a suite of personalized software security services and solutions; and Rimini Connect, a suite of managed interoperability solutions for browsers, operating systems, and email systems. In addition, the company offers Rimini Watch, a suite of observability solutions that include monitoring and system health check solutions; Rimini Consult, a suite of professional services for clients’ enterprise software customization, configuration, implementation, integration, interoperability, migration, staff augmentation, and other project needs; and Rimini Custom, a program that expands support and related services to a broader portfolio of enterprise software. The company serves Fortune 500 companies and Fortune Global 100 companies across various industries. It sells its solutions primarily through direct sales organizations in North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Asia-Pacific. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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