Analyzing Nixxy (NASDAQ:NIXX) & TCTM Kids IT Education (NASDAQ:VSA)

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

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares TCTM Kids IT Education and Nixxy”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
TCTM Kids IT Education	$160.41 million	0.02	-$80.36 million	($25.00)	-0.09
Nixxy	$610,000.00	38.79	-$22.59 million	($0.51)	-1.86

Nixxy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TCTM Kids IT Education. Nixxy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TCTM Kids IT Education, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

49.8% of TCTM Kids IT Education shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.1% of Nixxy shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.9% of TCTM Kids IT Education shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of Nixxy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for TCTM Kids IT Education and Nixxy, as provided by MarketBeat.

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

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
TCTM Kids IT Education	N/A	N/A	N/A
Nixxy	-39.19%	-256.04%	-135.70%

Volatility and Risk

TCTM Kids IT Education has a beta of 0.1, indicating that its stock price is 90% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nixxy has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

TCTM Kids IT Education beats Nixxy on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About Nixxy

Nixxy Inc. operates an on-demand recruiting platform which aims to deliver the right talent to both small and large businesses. It provides employers access to independent recruiters and utilizes an innovative web platform, with integrated AI-driven candidate to job matching and video screening software to source qualified talent. Nixxy Inc., formerly known as Recruiter.com Group Inc., is based in Bristol, CT.