ManpowerGroup (NYSE:MAN) and TCTM Kids IT Education (NASDAQ:VSA) Head to Head Analysis

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

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings for ManpowerGroup and TCTM Kids IT Education, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
ManpowerGroup	2	5	0	0	1.71
TCTM Kids IT Education	1	0	0	0	1.00

ManpowerGroup presently has a consensus price target of $42.67, suggesting a potential upside of 26.90%. Given ManpowerGroup’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe ManpowerGroup is more favorable than TCTM Kids IT Education.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

98.0% of ManpowerGroup shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.8% of TCTM Kids IT Education shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of ManpowerGroup shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 32.9% of TCTM Kids IT Education shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Risk & Volatility

ManpowerGroup has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TCTM Kids IT Education has a beta of 0.33, meaning that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
ManpowerGroup	-0.12%	7.02%	1.74%
TCTM Kids IT Education	N/A	N/A	N/A

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
ManpowerGroup	$17.85 billion	0.09	$145.10 million	($0.47)	-71.53
TCTM Kids IT Education	$160.41 million	0.17	-$80.36 million	N/A	N/A

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

Summary

ManpowerGroup beats TCTM Kids IT Education on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About ManpowerGroup

ManpowerGroup Inc. provides workforce solutions and services worldwide. The company offers recruitment services, including permanent, temporary, and contract recruitment of professionals, as well as administrative and industrial positions under the Manpower and Experis brands. It also offers various assessment services; training and development services; career and talent management; and outsourcing services related to human resources functions primarily in the areas of large-scale recruiting and workforce-intensive initiatives. In addition, the company provides workforce consulting services; contingent staffing and permanent recruitment services; professional resourcing and project-based services; and recruitment process outsourcing, TAPFIN managed, and talent solutions. The company was incorporated in 1948 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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.