Reviewing Integrated Ventures (OTCMKTS:INTV) & Runway Growth Finance (NASDAQ:RWAY)

Integrated Ventures (OTCMKTS:INTV) and Runway Growth Finance (NASDAQ:RWAY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Integrated Ventures and Runway Growth Finance, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Integrated Ventures	0	0	0	0	N/A
Runway Growth Finance	0	5	1	0	2.17

Runway Growth Finance has a consensus price target of $13.25, indicating a potential upside of 5.49%. Given Runway Growth Finance’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Runway Growth Finance is more favorable than Integrated Ventures.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Integrated Ventures and Runway Growth Finance’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Integrated Ventures	$3.86 million	1.63	-$25.46 million	($13.55)	-0.09
Runway Growth Finance	$164.21 million	3.10	$44.34 million	$1.10	11.42

Runway Growth Finance has higher revenue and earnings than Integrated Ventures. Integrated Ventures is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Runway Growth Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

64.6% of Runway Growth Finance shares are held by institutional investors. 30.1% of Integrated Ventures shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Runway Growth Finance shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Integrated Ventures and Runway Growth Finance’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Integrated Ventures	-581.64%	-3,899.18%	-418.14%
Runway Growth Finance	27.00%	13.85%	7.07%

Risk & Volatility

Integrated Ventures has a beta of 2.97, suggesting that its stock price is 197% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Runway Growth Finance has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Runway Growth Finance beats Integrated Ventures on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Integrated Ventures

Integrated Ventures, Inc. engages in the mining of digital currency. The company manufactures and sells mining equipment and mining rigs; as well as develops blockchain software. It also provides transaction verification services for digital currency networks of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, Quant, and Dogecoin. The company is based in Tioga, Pennsylvania.

About Runway Growth Finance

Runway Growth Finance Corp. is a business development company specializing investments in senior-secured loans to late stage and growth companies. It prefers to make investments in companies engaged in the technology, life sciences, healthcare and information services, business services and select consumer services and products sectors. It prefers to investments in companies engaged in electronic equipment and instruments, systems software, hardware, storage and peripherals and specialized consumer services, application software, healthcare technology, internet software and services, data processing and outsourced services, internet retail, human resources and employment services, biotechnology, healthcare equipment and education services. It invests in senior secured loans between $10 million and $75 million.