hot right now with tesla leading the way and competitors ramping up all over the world like
Nio that we did a stock analysis on previously. So let's take a look at Rivian an American electric
vehicle company that builds SUVs and trucks for on and off-road driving they just IPO'd in November!
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a major part of our investment strategy over the past 15 years has been our million dollar stock
portfolio we look for specific companies that have what it takes to grow and fuel our financial
independence for the rest of our lives we've already done a stock analysis on tesla Alibaba
and neo please check out those videos after this so you don't miss out so today we're going to walk
through our stock analysis of Rivian. Rivian is an American electric vehicle company that
was founded in 2009 what's unique is that its SUV and truck are built on a skateboard platform that
can support future vehicles or be adopted by other companies their vehicles are designed for both on
and off-road driving if you look at the snowflake analysis on the right you'll see that it's pretty
limited at this point because there's just not a lot of information available because it just IPO'd
but it does look strong in financial health and for now that's about what we do so listen to what
ribbian's founder and CEO has to say about the company he says the scale of the challenge is
enormous but we're lucky to be a part of this to be able to help solve how we shift our planet's
energy and transportation systems entirely away from fossil fuel here's Rivian's R1T truck you
have to admit it looks pretty cool it's pretty cool for an electric truck i mean yeah yeah i
like it's got a nice futuristic look to it and i like the color okay now let's take a closer look
so first with ruby and we're going to take a look at the capability and here you can see that their
focus is on building products that inspire and enable their customers to see the world on road
and way off the powertrain for this truck is a quad motor it goes zero to 60 miles per hour
in three seconds it's towing capacity is up to a thousand pounds and its weighting depth is three
over three like three plus feet i love that's even a speck that they actually isn't that crazy that's
one of the top four specs is that it's weighting depth in water over three feet that's awesome
so now let's talk about experience every aspect of the the r1t is designed to enhance your wildest
adventures so for data it has the lte and wi-fi aboard for the audio it has Rivian elevation
seating vegan leather and the roof is panoramic so the colors for the truck are inspired from places
that they've been and things that Rivian loves their silver is the color that they wanted to
first share with the world when they premiered in an in l.a their yellow is inspired by their
logo the Rivian compass and the Rivian blue is actually their founder's favorite color check
out this truck's panoramic moon roof not bad for a truck so now we move on to the utility of
this truck Rivian has spent years researching the field they talked about hauling gear loading bikes
wrestling wetsuits cooking out sleeping under the stars and in the end all those experiences
resulted in an actual purpose-built truck and not just a truck one to equip any of their adventures
it seats five and the storage capacity is 62 cubic feet it has four 120 volts and two 12 volt outlets
on board and then its truck bed is actually lockable and it has a retractable cover which is
as someone that's personally done a lot of hiking and camping i really liked what they had with the
camp kitchen and i love the way they said it too they said that it gives you all the essentials
of home our camp kitchen enables you to prepare complete meals wherever you are our camp kitchen
enables you to prepare complete meals wherever you are easily comfortably and with a great view
it comes out of the side of the truck pop right out I've never seen anything like that another
feature of the Rivian truck is driver plus and this comes standard on all their vehicles and
it has a combination of hands-free driving assistance and the full set of of safety
features it has 12 cameras 5 radars 12 ultrasonic sensors and a field of vision of 360 degrees
as you can see here Rivian offers three different packages for the truck the launch edition the
adventure package and the explore package and the prices range from around sixty seven thousand to
seventy three thousand here's Rivian's R1S SUV we thought this was a great picture of this vehicle
in that green color in front of the mountains picturesque yeah definitely screams like adventure
or hike or some kind of camping trip anyway let's take a closer look at what this vehicle can do
so
so with capability i love how they said from city streets to the far off trails i love how
they think of both worlds in that instance um its powertrain is a quad motor again it goes 0 to 60
miles per hour in 60 seconds its towing capacity is 7 700 pounds and its weighting depth is 3 plus
feet again so this one too so that's pretty cool driving in water why not Rivian's founder and CEO
said it best about the r1s it was designed to take families friends dogs and all your gear on long
road trips to the places you love now for Rivian's suv the experience is similar to the truck it has
LTE and wi-fi the audio is Rivian elevation the seating is vegan leather and it has a panoramic
moon roof so here you can see the r1s colors again the same as the truck but here you can
see the yellow which is a really cool a different a different yellow it's not your bumblebee yellow
but i like all the colors and that they tend to lend themselves to nature like it's more nature
inspired too here are the utility features for Rivian's SUV it has three rows it seats seven
passengers all the seats fold down and it has a storage of over 104 cubic feet here's a pretty
cool feature that we came across you can raise the ground clearance by up to 14.9 inches when going
over rocky terrain or steep grades it's a really a customizable truck yeah this is the suv but i've
never heard of that before so here again another feature of the rivian suv is the driver plus
feature which is their um free hands-free driving experience and again i liked how they said their
goal is to make driving safer easier and less stressful for everyone it has this one actually
has 11 cameras there's five radars and 12 ultrasonic sensors and then if their field
of vision is 360 degrees here are the equipment packages for Rivian's SUV they have the launch
edition adventure package and explore package the prices range from seventy thousand to seventy five
five so the next line that riven offers is the fleet which we all know from the news articles
they've got a a deal with amazon to create these fleet vehicles for them the Rivian commercial vans
are built for business they set new standards for safety performance and longevity in fleet vehicles
their interiors are designed for superior driver comfort and ergonomics available with all-wheel
drive and ads technologies that help increase driver's safety and operating efficiency so here
we have Rivian fleet OS which is really cool it allows them to optimize and automate fleet
operations to help improve your company's total cost of ownership and maximize the uptime i don't
know about you but every time i see a vehicle like this i just think of Doug Heffernan from king of
queens i just imagine him riding around in Rivian what would he think let's look at Rivian's chart
normally we look at a one-year chart but in Rivian's case they just IPO'd in November so
they have a month chart and so far so good the uh the stock is above the starting price and it
looks like it's sort of going sideways at the moment uh but we'll see what happens over the
past month they've gone up 50 over 52 percent which is pretty impressive so now let's take
a look at some current news articles about Rivian here's one from the motley fool could Rivian lucid
or neo become the next tesla from seeking alpha is Rivian stock overvalued or undervalued be careful
when others are greedy and from the motley full again three reasons to sell Rivian automotive
so the article that we're going to dive a little bit deeper into is the motley fools could Rivian
lucid or neo become the next tesla the main points on this article are that lucid has a technological
edge that should take it far before delivering vehicles Rivian has already built an impressive
brand i thought that was a really good point i mean before they built a single vehicle they
already have this great brand and you can see the marketing and all the things that went into
the website that we're showing you guys neo should finish 2021 with over 150 000 lifetime deliveries
so when it comes to valuation we look at a number of different methods to calculate fair value for
stocks that we track Finbox actually defines fair value as the real or underlying intrinsic worth
and they use over 12 different models usually to calculate fair value and also show a confidence
level for each but you'll see in this case it's a little bit different yeah so if inbox shows a fair
value at seventy six dollars and eight cents with a high level of uncertainty leaving over
36 percent downside potential from the current price so that's a little scary um and like like
amber said this fair value is only based on one model in this case the price to book multiples
so very limited information not a very high confidence level in that fair value in this case
there's not any analyst targets yet and that's probably because Rivian just IPO'd in November
let's take a look at Rivian's financial health once again because it just IPO there's not as
much information as we usually have Finbox does give it a fair rating and the only the
only section that it has a group the score for is a d in cash flow health so here we have management
and again like we've mentioned in our previous videos we'd like to look at several categories
but in particular we like to look at the average tenure of management the board members the CEO and
the leadership here you can see rivian's average tenure is four years for management and we like
to compare that again to apple and Microsoft and apples is around four years and Microsoft is six
years here's a breakdown of company ownership institutions at 15 percent general public
at thirty eight percent public companies twenty nine and insiders one percent compared to apple
at institutions fifty three percent general public forty two percent and public companies 5
Microsoft institutions at 72 and general public at 28 here's what we like about Rivian
amazon's contract to buy fleet vehicles amazon's 18 percent stake in the company the potential of
the ev industry as a whole the impressive vehicle lineup that we just went through with you guys
brand recognition and the price performance after ipo so now for what we don't like about Rivian as
we've mentioned before it IPOd and was listed on November 10 2021 with that there are many unknowns
um it's a limited track record and there's a lot of hype right now on it which could inflate
the price maybe yeah um and then it's no longer jointly working with ford and here the statement
from Rivian was as ford has scaled its own EV strategy and demand for riven vehicles has grown
they've mutually decided to focus on their own projects and deliveries their relationship with
ford is an important part of their journey and ford remains an investor and ally on their shared
path to an electrified future now that we've gone through our analysis on Rivian we hope
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