TrueBlue (NYSE:TBI – Get Free Report) and TCTM Kids IT Education (NASDAQ:VSA – Get Free Report) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
97.2% of TrueBlue shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.8% of TCTM Kids IT Education shares are held by institutional investors. 5.0% of TrueBlue shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.9% of TCTM Kids IT Education shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for TrueBlue and TCTM Kids IT Education, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| TrueBlue | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| TCTM Kids IT Education | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Volatility & Risk
TrueBlue has a beta of 1.47, meaning that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TCTM Kids IT Education has a beta of 0.1, meaning that its share price is 90% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares TrueBlue and TCTM Kids IT Education’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| TrueBlue | -1.78% | -4.42% | -1.98% |
| TCTM Kids IT Education | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares TrueBlue and TCTM Kids IT Education”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| TrueBlue | $1.58 billion | 0.09 | -$125.75 million | ($0.95) | -5.08 |
| TCTM Kids IT Education | $660.42 million | 0.00 | -$80.36 million | ($42.00) | -0.06 |
TCTM Kids IT Education has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TrueBlue. TrueBlue 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.
Summary
TrueBlue beats TCTM Kids IT Education on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About TrueBlue
TrueBlue, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides specialized workforce solutions in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Puerto Rico. It operates through three segments: PeopleReady, PeopleManagement, and PeopleScout. The company PeopleReady segment provides general, industrial, and skilled trade contingent staffing services for construction, transportation, manufacturing, retail, hospitality, and renewable energy industries. The PeopleManagement segment offers contingent, on-site industrial staffing, and commercial driver services, which includes on-site management and recruitment for the contingent industrial workforce of manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution facilities; and recruitment and management of contingent and dedicated commercial drivers to the transportation and distribution industries under the Staff Management, SIMOS Insourcing Solutions, and Centerline Drivers brands. The company PeopleScout segment provides recruitment process outsourcing, talent advisory services, and managed service provider solutions including sourcing, screening, hiring, and onboarding services; operates Affinix, a technology platform for sourcing, screening, and delivering a permanent workforce to its clients; talent advisory services, such as employer branding, recruitment marketing, talent insights, diversity, equity and inclusion consulting, candidate assessment, and talent acquisition strategy consulting services; and contingent labor programs including vendor selection, performance management, compliance monitoring, and risk management. TrueBlue, Inc. was formerly known as Labor Ready, Inc. and changed its name to TrueBlue, Inc. in December 2007. The company was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in Tacoma, Washington.
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.
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