Critical Analysis: Healthcare Triangle (NASDAQ:HCTI) versus Brand Engagement Network (NASDAQ:BNAI)

Brand Engagement Network (NASDAQ:BNAI) and Healthcare Triangle (NASDAQ:HCTI) 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 institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

15.8% of Brand Engagement Network shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.3% of Healthcare Triangle shares are owned by institutional investors. 62.9% of Brand Engagement Network shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Healthcare Triangle shares are owned by 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.

Volatility and Risk

Brand Engagement Network has a beta of 0.51, indicating that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Healthcare Triangle has a beta of 0.26, indicating that its share price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Brand Engagement Network and Healthcare Triangle’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Brand Engagement Network	N/A	-140.18%	-56.38%
Healthcare Triangle	-60.08%	-773.20%	-143.68%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Brand Engagement Network and Healthcare Triangle, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Brand Engagement Network	0	0	1	0	3.00
Healthcare Triangle	0	0	0	0	0.00

Brand Engagement Network presently has a consensus price target of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 1,829.26%. Given Brand Engagement Network’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Brand Engagement Network is more favorable than Healthcare Triangle.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Brand Engagement Network and Healthcare Triangle”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Brand Engagement Network	$35,210.00	346.35	-$6.88 million	N/A	N/A
Healthcare Triangle	$11.70 million	0.16	-$12.34 million	($2.18)	-0.10

Brand Engagement Network has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Healthcare Triangle.

Summary

Brand Engagement Network beats Healthcare Triangle on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Brand Engagement Network

Brand Engagement Network, Inc. provides conversational AI assistants. The company offers security-focused, multimodal communication, and human-like assistants. Its AI assistants are built on proprietary natural language processing, anomaly detection, multisensory awareness, sentiment, and environmental analysis, as well as real-time individuation and personalization capabilities. It serves the automotive, healthcare, and other industries through direct sales force and channel partners. Brand Engagement Network, Inc. was formerly known as Blockchain Exchange Network Inc. and changed its name to Brand Engagement Network, Inc. in April 2023. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Jackson, Wyoming.

About Healthcare Triangle

Healthcare Triangle, Inc., a healthcare information technology company, focuses on developing solutions in the sectors of cloud services, data science, and professional and managed services for the electronic health record, and healthcare and life sciences industry. It provides a suite of software, solutions, platforms, and services that enables healthcare and pharma organizations to deliver personalized healthcare, precision medicine, advances in drug discovery, development and efficacy, collaborative research and development, respond to evidence, and accelerate their digital transformation. The company’s software platforms include CloudEz, an enterprise multi-cloud transformation and management platform that enables customers to manage their cloud infrastructure in private, hybrid, and public cloud infrastructures; and DataEz, a cloud-based data analytics and data science platform for the data analytics and data science requirements of life sciences/pharmaceutical and healthcare provider organizations. It also provides Readabl.AI, a Software-as-a-Service solution that uses public cloud artificial intelligence and machine learning to recognize and extract healthcare information from documents, faxes, and narrative reports. In addition, the company offers cloud IT services; and healthcare IT services, such as electronic health records and software implementation, optimization, and extension to community partners, as well as application managed services, and backup and disaster recovery on public cloud. It primarily serves healthcare delivery organizations, healthcare insurance companies, pharmaceutical and life sciences, biotech companies, and medical device manufacturers. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Pleasanton, California. Healthcare Triangle, Inc. is a subsidiary of SecureKloud Technologies, Inc.