Head-To-Head Review: YY Group (NASDAQ:YYGH) and IBEX (NASDAQ:IBEX)

YY Group (NASDAQ:YYGH) and IBEX (NASDAQ:IBEX) 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 dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Recommendations

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

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
YY Group	0	0	0	0	0.00
IBEX	0	3	0	0	2.00

IBEX has a consensus price target of $34.50, indicating a potential downside of 17.03%. Given IBEX’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe IBEX is more favorable than YY Group.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

81.2% of IBEX shares are held by institutional investors. 6.7% of IBEX shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares YY Group and IBEX’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
IBEX	6.60%	28.24%	13.37%

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
YY Group	$41.10 million	0.50	-$4.84 million	N/A	N/A
IBEX	$558.27 million	1.00	$33.65 million	$2.29	18.16

IBEX has higher revenue and earnings than YY Group.

Risk and Volatility

YY Group has a beta of 2.69, meaning that its share price is 169% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IBEX has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

IBEX beats YY Group on 10 of the 11 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 IBEX

IBEX Limited provides end-to-end technology-enabled customer lifecycle experience solutions in the United States and internationally. The company products and services portfolio includes ibex Connect, that offers customer service, technical support, revenue generation, and other revenue generation outsourced back-office services through the CX model, which integrates voice, email, chat, SMS, social media, and other communication applications; ibex Digital, a customer acquisition solution that comprises digital marketing, e-commerce technology, and platform solutions; and ibex CX, a customer experience solution, which provides a suite of proprietary software tools to measure, monitor, and manage its clients' customer experience. It operates customer engagement and customer acquisition delivery centers. The company serves banking and financial services, delivery and logistics, health tech and wellness, high tech, retail and e-commerce, streaming and entertainment, travel and hospitality, and utility industries. The company was formerly known as IBEX Holdings Limited and changed its name to IBEX Limited in September 2019. IBEX Limited was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia. The company is a subsidiary of The Resource Group International Limited.