Comparing YY Group (NASDAQ:YYGH) & Hudson Global (NASDAQ:HSON)

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

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares YY Group and Hudson Global’s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
YY Group	$31.77 million	1.15	$850,000.00	N/A	N/A
Hudson Global	$142.97 million	0.34	$2.20 million	($0.37)	-47.05

Hudson Global has higher revenue and earnings than YY Group.

Profitability

This table compares YY Group and Hudson Global’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
Hudson Global	-1.45%	-2.60%	-2.00%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

47.2% of Hudson Global shares are held by institutional investors. 10.4% of Hudson Global shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for YY Group and Hudson Global, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
YY Group	0	0	0	0	N/A
Hudson Global	0	0	0	0	N/A

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 Hudson Global

Hudson Global, Inc. provides talent solutions for mid-to-large-cap multinational companies and government agencies under the Hudson RPO brand in the Americas, the Asia Pacific, and Europe. It offers recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) services, such as recruitment outsourcing, project-based outsourcing, contingent workforce solutions, and recruitment consulting for clients' permanent staff hires; and RPO contracting services, including outsourced professional contract staffing and managed services. The company was formerly known as Hudson Highland Group, Inc. and changed its name to Hudson Global, Inc. in April 2012. Hudson Global, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Old Greenwich, Connecticut.