Innventure (NASDAQ:INV) and NextNav (NASDAQ:NN) Financial Analysis

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Innventure and NextNav, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Innventure	1	0	0	0	1.00
NextNav	1	1	2	0	2.25

Innventure currently has a consensus price target of $8.00, indicating a potential upside of 42.60%. NextNav has a consensus price target of $37.50, indicating a potential upside of 74.42%. Given NextNav’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe NextNav is more favorable than Innventure.

Volatility & Risk

Innventure has a beta of 0.38, indicating that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NextNav has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

56.0% of Innventure shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.2% of NextNav shares are held by institutional investors. 14.3% of Innventure shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.8% of NextNav shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Innventure	-5,225.19%	-34.73%	-27.36%
NextNav	-3,921.17%	N/A	-34.03%

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Innventure	$2.06 million	228.87	-$293.32 million	($2.82)	-1.99
NextNav	$4.57 million	641.89	-$189.25 million	($1.21)	-17.77

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

Summary

NextNav beats Innventure on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Innventure

Innventure Inc. founds, funds and operates companies with a focus on transformative, sustainable technology solutions acquired or licensed from multinational corporations. Innventure Inc., formerly known as Learn CW Investment Corporation, is based in ORLANDO, Fla.

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.