Comparing Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV. (NASDAQ:LYT) and TaskUs (NASDAQ:TASK)

TaskUs (NASDAQ:TASK) and Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV. (NASDAQ:LYT) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for TaskUs and Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV., as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
TaskUs	1	4	2	0	2.14
Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV.	0	0	0	0	0.00

TaskUs presently has a consensus target price of $16.43, suggesting a potential upside of 6.61%. Given TaskUs’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe TaskUs is more favorable than Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV..

Profitability

This table compares TaskUs and Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV.’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
TaskUs	5.58%	18.10%	9.35%
Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV.	N/A	N/A	N/A

Institutional and Insider Ownership

44.6% of TaskUs shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.4% of Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV. shares are held by institutional investors. 29.3% of TaskUs shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 84.9% of Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV. shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares TaskUs and Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV.”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
TaskUs	$925.29 million	1.48	$45.69 million	$0.59	26.12
Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV.	$21.36 million	0.15	$290,000.00	N/A	N/A

TaskUs has higher revenue and earnings than Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV..

Volatility and Risk

TaskUs has a beta of 2.28, suggesting that its share price is 128% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV. has a beta of 1.82, suggesting that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

TaskUs beats Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV. on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About TaskUs

TaskUs, Inc. provides digital outsourcing services for companies in Philippines, the United States, India, and internationally. It offers digital customer experience that consists of omni-channel customer care services primarily delivered through non-voice digital channels; and other solutions, including experience and customer care services for new product or market launches, and customer acquisition solutions. The company also provides trust and safety solutions, such as review and disposition of user and advertiser generated visual, text, and audio content, which include removal or labeling of policy violating, and offensive or misleading content, as well as risk management, compliance, identity management, and fraud services; and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that consist of data labeling, annotation, context relevance, and transcription services for training and tuning machine learning algorithms that enables to develop AI systems. It serves clients in various industry segments comprising e-commerce, FinTech, food delivery and ride sharing, gaming, technology, HealthTech, social media, and streaming media. The company was formerly known as TU TopCo, Inc. and changed its name to TaskUs, Inc. in December 2020. TaskUs, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in New Braunfels, Texas.

About Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV.

Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV. Ltd. operates as a platform services company in India. The company engages in the distribution of linear content streaming/telecasting services; and development of telemedicine products. Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV. Ltd. was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.