Head to Head Comparison: Bright Horizons Family Solutions (NYSE:BFAM) vs. VCI Global (NASDAQ:VCIG)

VCI Global (NASDAQ:VCIG) and Bright Horizons Family Solutions (NYSE:BFAM) are both business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

0.2% of VCI Global shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Bright Horizons Family Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for VCI Global and Bright Horizons Family Solutions, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
VCI Global	1	0	0	0	1.00
Bright Horizons Family Solutions	1	3	3	0	2.29

Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a consensus price target of $128.71, indicating a potential upside of 25.26%. Given Bright Horizons Family Solutions’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Bright Horizons Family Solutions is more favorable than VCI Global.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares VCI Global and Bright Horizons Family Solutions”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
VCI Global	$27.83 million	0.24	$7.87 million	N/A	N/A
Bright Horizons Family Solutions	$2.87 billion	2.02	$140.19 million	$3.48	29.53

Bright Horizons Family Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than VCI Global.

Volatility & Risk

VCI Global has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares VCI Global and Bright Horizons Family Solutions’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
VCI Global	N/A	N/A	N/A
Bright Horizons Family Solutions	6.34%	15.12%	5.27%

Summary

Bright Horizons Family Solutions beats VCI Global on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About VCI Global

VCI Global Limited, together with its subsidiaries, provides business and technology consulting services in Malaysia. The company offers business strategy consultancy services, including listing solutions, investors relations, and boardroom strategies consultancy. It also provides technology consultancy services and solutions, such as digital development, fintech solution, and software solutions. In addition, the company engages in corporate and business advisory services in corporate finance, corporate structuring and restructuring, equity investment, and merger and acquisition; listings on recognized stock exchanges; fintech advisory; technology development; and computer software programming. Further, it is involved in provision of artificial intelligence; image processing; communication; networking and process control software services; money lending services; education and training services; real estate management consultancy services; and leasing and operational management of resort properties. The company serves its products to small-medium enterprises and government-linked agencies, as well as to publicly traded conglomerates across various industries. VCI Global Limited was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

About Bright Horizons Family Solutions

Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. provides early education and childcare, back-up care, educational advisory, and other workplace solutions services for employers and families in the United States, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia, and India. The company operates in three segments: Full Service Center-Based Child Care, Back-Up Care, and Educational Advisory and Other Services. The Full Service Center-Based Child Care segment offers traditional center-based child care and early education, preschool, and elementary education services. The Back-Up Care segment provides center-based back-up child care, in-home child and adult/elder dependent care, school-age camps, virtual tutoring, and self-sourced reimbursed care services through child care centers, school-age campuses, and in-home caregivers, as well as the back-up care network. The Educational Advisory and Other Services segment offers tuition assistance and student loan repayment program administration, workforce education, and related educational consulting services, as well as college admissions and college financial advisory services. The company was formerly known as Bright Horizons Solutions Corp. and changed its name to Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. in July 2012. Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.