Head-To-Head Review: Black Diamond Group (OTCMKTS:BDIMF) and YY Group (NASDAQ:YYGH)

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Black Diamond Group and YY Group, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Black Diamond Group	0	0	1	0	3.00
YY Group	1	0	0	0	1.00

Risk & Volatility

Black Diamond Group has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, YY Group has a beta of 1.87, meaning that its stock price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Black Diamond Group and YY Group”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Black Diamond Group	$294.14 million	2.78	$18.72 million	$0.41	29.05
YY Group	$41.10 million	0.29	-$4.84 million	N/A	N/A

Black Diamond Group has higher revenue and earnings than YY Group.

Profitability

This table compares Black Diamond Group and YY Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Black Diamond Group	8.23%	10.76%	4.79%
YY Group	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Black Diamond Group beats YY Group on 8 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Black Diamond Group

Black Diamond Group Limited rents and sells modular space and workforce accommodation solutions. It operates through two segments, Modular Space Solutions and Workforce Solutions. The Modular Space Solutions segment provides modular space rentals to customers in the construction, real estate development, education, manufacturing, health care, financial, government, and defense industries in North America. Its products include office units, lavatories, storage units, large multi-unit office complexes, classroom facilities, banking and health care facilities, high security modular buildings, custom manufactured modular facilities, blast resistant structures, SmartSpace interchangeable paneled units, and storage containers. This segment also sells new and used space rentals units; and provides delivery, installation, project management, and ancillary rental items, products, and services. The Workforce Solutions segment provides workforce housing solutions, including rental of accommodations and surface equipment, and provision of turnkey lodging and travel management logistics services in Canada, the United States, and Australia. This segment also provides associated services, such as installation, transportation, dismantlement, and sale of used fleet assets. This segment primarily serves the resource, infrastructure, construction, disaster recovery, and education sectors. It also provides specialized field rentals to oil and gas industries. The company markets its rental assets, custom sales, and ancillary products and services through in-house sales personnel, its website, social media, web campaigns, and its digital marketplace. Black Diamond Group Limited was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

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.