Head to Head Contrast: Vivakor (NASDAQ:VIVK) vs. Arrive AI (NASDAQ:ARAI)

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

Institutional and Insider Ownership

12.3% of Vivakor shares are held by institutional investors. 12.2% of Vivakor 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.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Vivakor and Arrive AI, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Vivakor	1	0	0	0	1.00
Arrive AI	1	0	1	0	2.00

Arrive AI has a consensus price target of $12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 925.64%. Given Arrive AI’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Arrive AI is more favorable than Vivakor.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Vivakor	-55.68%	-61.59%	-26.59%
Arrive AI	N/A	-218.95%	-106.29%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Vivakor and Arrive AI”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Vivakor	$125.11 million	0.02	-$22.19 million	($3.12)	-0.01
Arrive AI	N/A	N/A	-$4.54 million	($0.19)	-6.16

Arrive AI has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Vivakor. Arrive AI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vivakor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of 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 Arrive AI

We were incorporated on April 30, 2020, in the State of Delaware under the name of Dronedek Corporation. The Company changed its name to Arrive Technology Inc. on July 27, 2023. The Company changed its name to Arrive AI Inc. on September 30, 2024. We are a developmental technology company with a focus on designing and implementing a commercially viable smart mailbox and platform system for smart, secure, and seamless exchange of packages, goods, supplies, food, and medications between people, through the use of robots, and drones. We have not started conducting commercial operations and we had no revenues for fiscal years 2022, 2023 or 2024. Arrive executed an exclusive patent license agreement on May 26, 2020 with its CEO, Mr. O’Toole and amended in December 2024 and March 2025, whereby Mr. O’Toole granted Arrive rights to use, sell, manufacture and otherwise commercialize certain technologies relating to secured drone delivery ALM mailboxes in exchange for license fees. Such technologies helped jumpstart our business operations and will continue to play such a critical role in our growth that we became heavily reliant on the right to use them. Our corporate address is in Fishers, Indiana.