Financial Analysis: SKYX Platforms (NASDAQ:SKYX) vs. V2X (NYSE:VVX)

SKYX Platforms (NASDAQ:SKYX) and V2X (NYSE:VVX) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends and risk.

Risk & Volatility

SKYX Platforms has a beta of -4002.06, suggesting that its stock price is 400,306% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, V2X has a beta of 0.13, suggesting that its stock price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for SKYX Platforms and V2X, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SKYX Platforms	1	1	2	0	2.25
V2X	2	4	3	1	2.30

SKYX Platforms presently has a consensus target price of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 124.22%. V2X has a consensus target price of $61.88, suggesting a potential downside of 7.93%. Given SKYX Platforms’ higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe SKYX Platforms is more favorable than V2X.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares SKYX Platforms and V2X”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SKYX Platforms	$86.28 million	3.14	-$35.77 million	($0.35)	-6.37
V2X	$4.32 billion	0.49	$34.68 million	$2.50	26.88

V2X has higher revenue and earnings than SKYX Platforms. SKYX Platforms is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than V2X, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares SKYX Platforms and V2X’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SKYX Platforms	-39.35%	N/A	-56.71%
V2X	1.81%	15.22%	5.06%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

11.8% of SKYX Platforms shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.2% of V2X shares are held by institutional investors. 30.0% of SKYX Platforms shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of V2X shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

V2X beats SKYX Platforms on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About SKYX Platforms

SKYX Platforms Corp. provides a series of safe-smart platform technologies. The company’s first and second-generation technologies enable light fixtures, ceiling fans, and other electrically wired products to be installed and plugged into a ceiling’s electrical outlet box. It also provides universal power-plugs and receptacle products. In addition, it offers smart products, such as SkyHome App; sky smart universal power-plug and receptacle; sky-smart plug and play ceiling fans and lightings; and all-in-one smart sky platform. The company was formerly known as SQL Technologies Corp. and changed its name to SKYX Platforms Corp. in June 2022. SKYX Platforms Corp. was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Pompano Beach, Florida.

About V2X

V2X, Inc. provides critical mission solutions and support services to defense clients worldwide. It offers a suite of integrated solutions across the operations and logistics, aerospace, training, and technology markets to national security, defense, civilian, and international clients. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Mclean, Virginia.