Head-To-Head Contrast: BrightView (NYSE:BV) vs. YY Group (NASDAQ:YYGH)

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

Institutional and Insider Ownership

92.4% of BrightView shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of BrightView shares are held by company 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.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares YY Group and BrightView”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
YY Group	$57.24 million	0.00	-$21.42 million	N/A	N/A
BrightView	$2.67 billion	0.50	$56.00 million	($0.07)	-204.57

BrightView has higher revenue and earnings than YY Group.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for YY Group and BrightView, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
YY Group	1	0	0	0	1.00
BrightView	2	3	3	1	2.33

BrightView has a consensus price target of $14.52, suggesting a potential upside of 1.37%. Given BrightView’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe BrightView is more favorable than YY Group.

Volatility and Risk

YY Group has a beta of 2.56, indicating that its stock price is 156% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BrightView has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares YY Group and BrightView’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
BrightView	1.70%	7.25%	2.73%

Summary

BrightView beats YY Group on 12 of the 13 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 BrightView

BrightView Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides commercial landscaping services in the United States. It operates through two segments, Maintenance Services and Development Services. The Maintenance Services segment delivers a suite of recurring commercial landscaping services, including mowing, gardening, mulching and snow removal, water management, irrigation maintenance, tree care, golf course maintenance, and specialty turf maintenance. Its customers' properties include corporate and commercial properties, homeowners associations, public parks, hotels and resorts, airport authorities, municipalities, hospitals and other healthcare facilities, educational institutions, restaurants and retail, and golf courses. This segment's customer base includes approximately 8,800 office parks and corporate campuses 7,100 residential communities, and 550 educational institutions. The Development Services segment offers landscape architecture and development services for new facilities and redesign projects. Its services include project design and management services, landscape architecture and installation, irrigation installation, tree moving and installation, pool and water features, sports field, and other services. BrightView Holdings, Inc. also operates as official field consultant to various league baseball. The company was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.