Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX) versus Tuniu (NASDAQ:TOUR) Head-To-Head Review

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Tucows and Tuniu”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Tucows	$369.43 million	0.67	-$109.86 million	($9.21)	-2.45
Tuniu	$70.37 million	1.44	$10.57 million	$0.08	10.79

Tuniu has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Tucows. Tucows is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tuniu, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

73.6% of Tucows shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.4% of Tucows shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 76.1% of Tuniu shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Tucows and Tuniu’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Tucows	-27.43%	N/A	-9.39%
Tuniu	11.38%	6.30%	3.28%

Volatility and Risk

Tucows has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tuniu has a beta of 1.57, meaning that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Tuniu beats Tucows on 9 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Tucows

Tucows Inc. provides network access, domain name registration, email, mobile telephony, and other Internet services in North America and Europe. It operates in three segments: Ting, Wavelo and Tucows Domains. The Ting segment provides fiber and fixed wireless internet services. The Wavelo segment offers individual developer tools, subscription, billing management, network orchestration, and provisioning services. This segment also provides billing solutions under Platypus brand. The Tucows Domains segment offers name registration, as well as value added services under OpenSRS, eNom, Ascio, EPAG, and Hover brands. The company was formerly known as Infonautics, Inc. and changed its name to Tucows Inc. in August 2001. Tucows Inc. was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

About Tuniu

Tuniu Corporation operates as an online leisure travel company in China. The company offers various packaged tours, including organized and self-guided tours; and other travel-related services, such as tourist attraction tickets, visa application services, accommodation reservation, financial services, and hotel booking services, as well as air, train, and bus ticketing for leisure travelers. It also provides car rental and insurance services, as well as advertising services to tourism boards and bureaus. The company offers its products and services through various online and offline channels, including tuniu.com website; mobile platform; a call center in Nanjing; and other offline retail stores in China. Tuniu Corporation was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Nanjing, the People's Republic of China.