Healthcare Services Group (NASDAQ:HCSG) versus YY Group (NASDAQ:YYGH) Head-To-Head Analysis

YY Group (NASDAQ:YYGH) and Healthcare Services Group (NASDAQ:HCSG) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares YY Group and Healthcare Services Group”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
YY Group	$41.10 million	0.34	-$4.84 million	N/A	N/A
Healthcare Services Group	$1.72 billion	0.80	$39.47 million	$0.54	35.87

Healthcare Services Group has higher revenue and earnings than YY Group.

Profitability

This table compares YY Group and Healthcare Services Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
YY Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
Healthcare Services Group	2.20%	12.23%	7.52%

Volatility and Risk

YY Group has a beta of 1.72, indicating that its stock price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Healthcare Services Group has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

98.0% of Healthcare Services Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Healthcare Services Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for YY Group and Healthcare Services Group, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
YY Group	1	0	0	0	1.00
Healthcare Services Group	0	4	3	0	2.43

Healthcare Services Group has a consensus price target of $19.40, suggesting a potential upside of 0.15%. Given Healthcare Services Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Healthcare Services Group is more favorable than YY Group.

Summary

Healthcare Services Group beats YY Group on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About YY Group

YY Group Holding Limited, a data and technology driven company, provides manpower outsourcing and cleaning services in Singapore and Malaysia. Its cleaning services include commercial cleaning for offices and schools; hospitality cleaning for hotels and shopping centers; industrial cleaning, facade cleaning, disinfection, and stewarding services for meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions, as well as banquets; and pest control services. The company also offers cleaning robots and machines to enhance cleaning performance by deploying them at designated premises. In addition, it provides YY Smart iClean App, which is a smart toilet central management platform. Further, the company offers manpower contracting services; employment agencies; general cleaning services; manpower outsourcing with information technology solution; management consulting; and employment placement and recruitment services. YY Group Holding Limited was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Singapore.

About Healthcare Services Group

Healthcare Services Group, Inc. provides management, administrative, and operating services to the housekeeping, laundry, linen, facility maintenance, and dietary service departments of nursing homes, retirement complexes, rehabilitation centers, and hospitals in the United States. It operates through two segments, Housekeeping and Dietary. The Housekeeping segment engages in the cleaning, disinfecting, and sanitizing of resident rooms and common areas of the customers' facilities, as well as laundering and processing of the bed linens, uniforms, resident personal clothing, and other assorted linen items utilized at the customers' facilities. The Dietary segment provides food purchasing, meal preparation, and professional dietitian services, which include the development of menus that meet the dietary needs of residents; and on-site management and clinical consulting services to facilities. It serves long-term and post-acute care facilities, hospitals, and the healthcare industry through referrals and solicitation of target facilities. The company was incorporated in 1976 and is based in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.