TCTM Kids IT Education (NASDAQ:VSA) and HAYS (OTCMKTS:HAYPY) Financial Analysis

HAYS (OTCMKTS:HAYPY) and TCTM Kids IT Education (NASDAQ:VSA) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, dividends and valuation.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

49.8% of TCTM Kids IT Education shares are held by institutional investors. 32.9% of TCTM Kids IT Education shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for HAYS and TCTM Kids IT Education, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
HAYS	0	1	0	1	3.00
TCTM Kids IT Education	1	0	0	0	1.00

Profitability

This table compares HAYS and TCTM Kids IT Education’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
HAYS	N/A	N/A	N/A
TCTM Kids IT Education	N/A	N/A	N/A

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares HAYS and TCTM Kids IT Education”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
HAYS	$8.55 billion	0.14	-$10.09 million	N/A	N/A
TCTM Kids IT Education	$160.41 million	0.02	-$80.36 million	($0.50)	-0.14

HAYS has higher revenue and earnings than TCTM Kids IT Education.

Volatility and Risk

HAYS has a beta of 0.41, suggesting that its share price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TCTM Kids IT Education has a beta of 0.04, suggesting that its share price is 96% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

HAYS beats TCTM Kids IT Education on 6 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About HAYS

Hays plc engages in the provision of recruitment services in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and internationally. The company provides qualified, professional, and skilled recruitment in permanent, temporary, and contractor formats to public and private sectors. It offers its recruitment services in the specialisms, such as technology, accountancy and finance, engineering, construction and property, office support, life sciences, sales and marketing, and others. Hays plc was founded in 1968 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.

About TCTM Kids IT Education

Tarena International, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides professional education services through full-time and part-time classes under the Tarena brand in the People’s Republic of China. It operates through two segments, Adult Professional Education and Childhood & Adolescent Quality Education Services. The company offers education courses in 7 information technology (IT) subjects, such as Java, software testing, Linux and network engineering, Big Data, Web front-end development, Python, and network engineer courses; and 3 non-IT subjects, including digital art, online sales and marketing, and visual effects-VFX, as well as live distance instruction, classroom-based tutoring, and online learning modules. It also provides 9 childhood and adolescent quality education programs, including robotics programming, graphical intelligent programming, NOI informatics Olympiad, Python artificial intelligence, high level hardware programming for secondary school, soft and hard programming enlightenment, creative programming starter, and SPIKE starter and advanced under the TongchengTongmei brand. In addition, the company offers online learning platform for education courses and job placement training courses. As of December 31, 2021, it had a network of 100 directly managed learning centers in 44 cities; and 238 TongchengTongmei standalone learning centers in 54 cities. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China.