Akso Health Group (NASDAQ:AHG) versus MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) Head to Head Survey

Akso Health Group (NASDAQ:AHG) and MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and earnings.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Akso Health Group and MSCI, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Akso Health Group	0	0	0	0	N/A
MSCI	0	7	9	0	2.56

MSCI has a consensus target price of $584.79, suggesting a potential upside of 4.45%. Given MSCI’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe MSCI is more favorable than Akso Health Group.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

1.2% of Akso Health Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.0% of MSCI shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of MSCI shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility and Risk

Akso Health Group has a beta of 0.15, indicating that its stock price is 85% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MSCI has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Akso Health Group and MSCI’s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Akso Health Group	$2.41 million	9.97	-$9.46 million	N/A	N/A
MSCI	$2.70 billion	16.41	$1.15 billion	$14.65	38.22

MSCI has higher revenue and earnings than Akso Health Group.

Profitability

This table compares Akso Health Group and MSCI’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Akso Health Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
MSCI	43.86%	-143.09%	21.30%

Summary

MSCI beats Akso Health Group on 10 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Akso Health Group

Akso Health Group operates a social e-commerce mobile platform in China. The company operates Xiaobai Maimai App, which offers food and beverage products, wine, cosmetic products, fashion and apparel, entertainment products, housewares, home appliances, and cost-saving promotions at petrol gas stations. It also offers consultancy and information technology support services; provides health treatment services; sells medical devices; and trades in branded products, as well as promotes products. The company was formerly known as Xiaobai Maimai Inc. and changed its name to Akso Health Group in December 2021. Akso Health Group was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Qingdao, China.

About MSCI

MSCI Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides critical decision support tools and solutions for the investment community to manage investment processes worldwide. The Index segment provides indexes for use in various areas of the investment process, including indexed financial product, such as ETFs, mutual funds, annuities, futures, options, structured products, and over-the-counter derivatives; performance benchmarking; portfolio construction and rebalancing; and asset allocation, as well as licenses GICS and GICS Direct. The Analytics segment offers risk management, performance attribution and portfolio management content, application, an integrated view of risk and return service, and an analysis of market, credit, liquidity, counterparty, and climate risk across asset classes; managed services, including consolidation of client portfolio data, review and reconciliation of input data and results, and customized reporting; and HedgePlatform to measure, evaluate, and monitor the risk of hedge fund investments. The ESG and Climate segment provides products and services that help institutional investors understand how ESG impacts the long-term risk and return of their portfolio and individual security-level investments; and data, ratings, research, and tools to help investors navigate increasing regulation. The All Other Private Assets segment includes real estate and infrastructure data, benchmarks, return-analytics, climate assessments and market insights; business intelligence to real estate owners, managers, developers, and brokers; and offers investment decision support tools for private capital. The Private Capital Solutions segment offers tools to help private asset investors across mission-critical workflows, such as sourcing terms and conditions, evaluating operating performance, managing risk and other activities supporting private capital investing. MSCI Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in New York, New York.