Veritiv Corporation (VRTV)’s Financial Results Comparing With Cryoport Inc. (NASDAQ:CYRX)

Both Veritiv Corporation (NYSE:VRTV) and Cryoport Inc. (NASDAQ:CYRX) are Packaging & Containers companies, competing one another. We will compare their institutional ownership, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and valuation.

Earnings and Valuation

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Veritiv Corporation	16	-0.76	9.14M	0.32	54.44
Cryoport Inc.	15	0.00	35.43M	-0.32	0.00

Table 1 demonstrates Veritiv Corporation and Cryoport Inc.’s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

Profitability

Table 2 has Veritiv Corporation and Cryoport Inc.’s return on assets, return on equity and net margins.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Veritiv Corporation	56,911,581.57%	-5%	-1%
Cryoport Inc.	242,173,615.86%	-28.3%	-21%

Risk & Volatility

A beta of 1.45 shows that Veritiv Corporation is 45.00% more volatile than Standard and Poor’s 500. Cryoport Inc.’s 19.00% less volatile than Standard and Poor’s 500 volatility due to the stock’s 0.81 beta.

Liquidity

The current Quick Ratio of Veritiv Corporation is 1.5 while its Current Ratio is 2.2. Meanwhile, Cryoport Inc. has a Current Ratio of 11.6 while its Quick Ratio is 11.5. Cryoport Inc. is better positioned to pay off its short-term and long-term debts than Veritiv Corporation.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

Veritiv Corporation and Cryoport Inc. has shares owned by institutional investors as follows: 95% and 50.1%. 3.4% are Veritiv Corporation’s share owned by insiders. Insiders Competitively, owned 0.2% of Cryoport Inc. shares.

Performance

Here are the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

	Performance (W)	Performance (M)	Performance (Q)	Performance (HY)	Performance (Y)	Performance (YTD)
Veritiv Corporation	-1.91%	-7.39%	-35.67%	-48.57%	-51.94%	-30.24%
Cryoport Inc.	3.65%	9.64%	44.05%	100.69%	45.18%	85.58%

For the past year Veritiv Corporation had bearish trend while Cryoport Inc. had bullish trend.

Summary

Cryoport Inc. beats Veritiv Corporation on 6 of the 11 factors.

Veritiv Corporation operates as a business-to-business distributor of print, publishing, packaging, and facility solutions in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. It operates through four segments: Print, Publishing & Print Management (Publishing), Packaging, and Facility Solutions. The Print segment sells and distributes commercial printing, writing, copying, digital, wide format, and specialty paper products; and graphics consumables and equipment. This segment also provides customized paper conversion services of commercial printing paper for distribution to document centers and form printers. The Publishing segment sells and distributes coated and uncoated commercial printing papers to publishers, retailers, converters, printers, and specialty businesses for use in magazines, catalogs, books, directories, gaming, couponing, retail inserts, and direct mail. This segment also provides print management, procurement, and supply chain management solutions. The Packaging segment offers standard and custom packaging solutions. The Facility Solutions segment sources and sells cleaning, break-room, and other supplies, such as towels, tissues, wipers and dispensers, can liners, commercial cleaning chemicals, soaps and sanitizers, sanitary maintenance supplies and equipment, safety and hazard supplies, and shampoos and amenities. The company also provides logistics and supply chain management solutions. It offers its products under the Endurance, nordic+, Econosource, Comet, Starbrite Opaque Select, TUFflex, Reliable, and Spring Grove brands, as well as other brands to printers, publishers, data centers, manufacturers, higher education institutions, healthcare facilities, sporting and performance arenas, retail stores, government agencies, property managers, and building service contractors. As of March 14, 2017, the company operated 170 distribution centers. Veritiv Corporation was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

CryoPort, Inc. provides cryogenic logistics solutions to the life sciences industry in the United States, Europe, Asia, and internationally. The company offers Cryoportal, a cloud-based logistics management software that automates the entry of orders, prepares customs documentation, and facilitates status and location monitoring of shipped orders while in transit; and CryoPort Express Shippers, which are cryogenic dry vapor shippers that use liquid nitrogen contained inside a vacuum insulated vessel, which serves as a refrigerant to provide stable storage temperatures. It also provides Cryoport Express Standard Shippers, which are re-usable dry vapor liquid nitrogen storage containers for holding the biological material in the inner chamber; CryoPort Express High Volume Shippers, which use a dry vapor liquid nitrogen technology to maintain temperatures; and Cryoport Express CXVC1 Shipper, which is in dry vapor form and based on the standard dry shipper technology, and utilizes an absorbent material to hold LN2. In addition, the company offers CryoPort Express SmartPak Condition Monitoring System that tracks the key aspects of each shipment; CryoPort Express Analytics to track the time-based metrics for order processing time and on-time deliveries, as well as profiling shipping lanes to determine average transit times and predicting shipping exceptions based on historical metric; and biological material holders that are containment bags used in connection with the shipment of infectious or dangerous goods using the CryoPort Express Shippers. CryoPort, Inc. has strategic partnerships with Worthington Industries and Pacific Bio-Material Management, Inc. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.