Head-To-Head Survey: Sekisui House (OTCMKTS:SKHSY) vs. SSGI (OTCMKTS:VICP)

Sekisui House (OTCMKTS:SKHSY) and SSGI (OTCMKTS:VICP) are both construction companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends and profitability.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Sekisui House and SSGI”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Sekisui House	$26.67 billion	0.55	$1.44 billion	$2.03	10.99
SSGI	N/A	N/A	-$1.18 million	($0.04)	-44.25

Sekisui House has higher revenue and earnings than SSGI. SSGI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sekisui House, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility and Risk

Sekisui House has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SSGI has a beta of -4.58, meaning that its share price is 558% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for Sekisui House and SSGI, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Sekisui House	0	1	0	0	2.00
SSGI	0	0	0	0	0.00

Profitability

This table compares Sekisui House and SSGI’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Sekisui House	4.78%	9.88%	4.10%
SSGI	N/A	N/A	N/A

Insider & Institutional Ownership

0.0% of Sekisui House shares are held by institutional investors. 6.0% of SSGI shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Sekisui House beats SSGI on 10 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Sekisui House

Sekisui House, Ltd. designs, constructs, and contracts built-to-order detached houses in Japan and internationally. The company operates through Custom Detached Houses, Rental Housing, Architectural/Civil Engineering, Remodeling, Real Estate Management Fees, Houses For Sale, Condominiums, Urban Redevelopment, and Overseas segments. It also engages in contracting of design and construction of custom detached houses, rental housing, office building, commercial buildings, and other properties; construction of reinforced concrete rental housing and commercial buildings; contracting of design and construction of civil engineering works; remodeling and renovation of houses; subleasing, management, operation, and brokerage of real estate; sale of houses and residential land; and sales of condominiums. Sekisui House, Ltd. was incorporated in 1929 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan.

About SSGI

Vicapsys Life Sciences, Inc. focuses on the development and commercialization of VICAPSYN, a proprietary product. The company’s product is applied to transplantation therapies and related stem-cell applications in the transplantation field. It also develops VYBRIN, a product based on CXCL12 for prevention of post-surgical adhesions in abdominal surgery, coating of implantable medical devices and other implants to eliminate fibrosis, and wound healing with a focus on diabetic ulcers. The company was formerly known as Phage Therapeutics International, Inc. and changed its name to Vicapsys Life Sciences, Inc. in September 2017. Vicapsys Life Sciences, Inc. was incorporated in 1997 and is based in Suwanee, Georgia.