Head to Head Contrast: Akso Health Group (NASDAQ:AHG) vs. CoStar Group (NASDAQ:CSGP)

Akso Health Group (NASDAQ:AHG) and CoStar Group (NASDAQ:CSGP) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Akso Health Group and CoStar Group, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Akso Health Group	0	0	0	0	0.00
CoStar Group	1	4	10	1	2.69

CoStar Group has a consensus price target of $87.69, suggesting a potential upside of 10.21%. Given CoStar Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe CoStar Group is more favorable than Akso Health Group.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Akso Health Group and CoStar Group”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Akso Health Group	$2.41 million	84.89	-$9.46 million	N/A	N/A
CoStar Group	$2.74 billion	12.27	$138.70 million	$0.29	274.38

CoStar Group has higher revenue and earnings than Akso Health Group.

Volatility & Risk

Akso Health Group has a beta of -0.68, suggesting that its share price is 168% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CoStar Group has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Akso Health Group and CoStar Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Akso Health Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
CoStar Group	4.17%	3.11%	2.54%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

1.2% of Akso Health Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.6% of CoStar Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of CoStar Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

CoStar Group beats Akso Health Group on 12 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Akso Health Group

Akso Health Group operates a social e-commerce mobile platform in China. The company operates Xiaobai Maimai App, which offers food and beverage products, wine, cosmetic products, fashion and apparel, entertainment products, housewares, home appliances, and cost-saving promotions at petrol gas stations. It also offers consultancy and information technology support services; provides health treatment services; sells medical devices; and trades in branded products, as well as promotes products. The company was formerly known as Xiaobai Maimai Inc. and changed its name to Akso Health Group in December 2021. Akso Health Group was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Qingdao, China.

About CoStar Group

CoStar Group, Inc. provides information, analytics, and online marketplace services to the commercial real estate, hospitality, residential, and related professionals industries in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and Latin America. The company offers CoStar Property that provides inventory of office, industrial, retail, multifamily, hospitality, and student housing properties and land; CoStar Sales, a robust database of comparable commercial real estate sales transactions; CoStar Market Analytics to view and report on aggregated market and submarket trends; and CoStar Tenant, an online business-to-business prospecting and analytical tool that provides tenant information. It also provides Leasing, a tool to capture, manage, and maintain lease data; CoStar Lease Analysis; Public Record, a searchable database of commercially zoned parcels; CoStar Real Estate Manager, a real estate lease administration, portfolio management, and lease accounting compliance software solution; and CoStar Risk Analytics and CoStar Investment. In addition, it offers apartment marketing sites, such as ApartmentFinder.com, ForRent.com, ApartmentHomeLiving.com, WestsideRentals.com, AFTER55.com, CorporateHousing.com, ForRentUniversity.com, Apartamentos.com, and Off Campus Partners; LoopNet Premium Lister; LoopNet Diamond, Platinum, and Gold Ads; LandsofAmerica.com, LandAndFarm.com, and LandWatch.com for rural land for-sale; BizBuySell.com, BizQuest.com, and FindaFranchise.com for operating businesses and franchises for-sale; Ten-X, an online auction platform for commercial real estate; and HomeSnap, an online and mobile software platform, as well as Homes.com, a homes for sale listings site. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Washington, the District of Columbia.