YY Group (NASDAQ:YYGH) vs. Cross Country Healthcare (NASDAQ:CCRN) Head-To-Head Survey

Cross Country Healthcare (NASDAQ:CCRN) and YY Group (NASDAQ:YYGH) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Cross Country Healthcare and YY Group”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cross Country Healthcare	$1.45 billion	0.41	$72.63 million	($0.05)	-361.20
YY Group	$31.77 million	2.39	$850,000.00	N/A	N/A

Cross Country Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than YY Group.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

96.0% of Cross Country Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. 4.9% of Cross Country Healthcare shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Cross Country Healthcare and YY Group, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cross Country Healthcare	0	4	0	0	2.00
YY Group	0	0	0	0	0.00

Cross Country Healthcare presently has a consensus price target of $18.54, indicating a potential upside of 2.64%. Given Cross Country Healthcare’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Cross Country Healthcare is more favorable than YY Group.

Profitability

This table compares Cross Country Healthcare and YY Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cross Country Healthcare	-0.12%	5.38%	3.84%
YY Group	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Cross Country Healthcare beats YY Group on 8 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Cross Country Healthcare

Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. provides talent management and other consultative services for healthcare clients in the United States. The company’s Nurse and Allied Staffing segment provides traditional staffing, recruiting, and value-added total talent solutions, including temporary and permanent placement of travel and local nurse and, allied professionals; temporary placement of healthcare leaders within nursing, allied, physician, and human resources; vendor neutral and managed services programs; education healthcare services; in-home care services; and outsourcing services. It also offers staffing solutions for registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, certified nurse assistants, practitioners, pharmacists, and other allied professionals on per diem and short-term assignments; and clinical and non-clinical professionals on long-term contract assignments, as well as workforce solutions, including MSP, VMS, in- home care, education healthcare, RPO, project management, and other outsourcing and consultative services. This segment provides retained search services for healthcare professionals, as well as contingent search and recruitment process outsourcing services. It serves public and private acute care and non-acute care hospitals, government facilities, local and national healthcare plans, managed care providers, public and charter schools, outpatient clinics, ambulatory care facilities, physician practice groups, and other healthcare providers under the Cross Country brand. Its Physician Staffing segment provides physicians in various specialties, certified registered nurse anesthetists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants under the Cross Country Locums brand on temporary assignments. It serves various healthcare facilities, such as acute and non-acute care facilities, medical group practices, government facilities, and managed care organizations. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.

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.