Holiday Island (OTCMKTS:HIHI) and MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) Head-To-Head Contrast

Holiday Island (OTCMKTS:HIHI) and MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership and dividends.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

90.0% of MSCI shares are held by institutional investors. 15.2% of Holiday Island shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of MSCI shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Risk and Volatility

Holiday Island has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MSCI has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Holiday Island and MSCI’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Holiday Island	N/A	N/A	N/A
MSCI	43.86%	-143.09%	21.30%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Holiday Island and MSCI”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Holiday Island	N/A	N/A	N/A	($0.08)	-0.43
MSCI	$2.70 billion	17.48	$1.15 billion	$14.65	40.71

MSCI has higher revenue and earnings than Holiday Island. Holiday Island is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MSCI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Holiday Island and MSCI, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Holiday Island	0	0	0	0	N/A
MSCI	0	6	9	0	2.60

MSCI has a consensus price target of $615.23, indicating a potential upside of 3.16%. Given MSCI’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe MSCI is more favorable than Holiday Island.

Summary

MSCI beats Holiday Island on 9 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Holiday Island

Holiday Island Holdings, Inc. primarily engages in land development activities. It acquires, develops, manages, and sells income producing commercial and residential real estate properties located in Holiday Island, Arkansas. The company was formerly known as VillageEDOCS, Inc. and changed its name to Holiday Island Holdings, Inc. in February 2014. Holiday Island Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in Holiday Island, Arkansas.

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.