TruBridge (NASDAQ:TBRG – Get Free Report) and Clover Health Investments (NASDAQ:CLOV – Get Free Report) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and earnings.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
88.6% of TruBridge shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.8% of Clover Health Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.7% of TruBridge shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.1% of Clover Health Investments shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Profitability
This table compares TruBridge and Clover Health Investments’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| TruBridge | -3.63% | 3.30% | 1.43% |
| Clover Health Investments | -2.68% | -12.20% | -6.95% |
Analyst Ratings
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| TruBridge | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Clover Health Investments | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2.25 |
TruBridge presently has a consensus target price of $23.67, indicating a potential upside of 19.71%. Clover Health Investments has a consensus target price of $4.37, indicating a potential upside of 49.54%. Given Clover Health Investments’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Clover Health Investments is more favorable than TruBridge.
Risk & Volatility
TruBridge has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clover Health Investments has a beta of 2.1, indicating that its share price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares TruBridge and Clover Health Investments”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| TruBridge | $345.87 million | 0.86 | -$19.67 million | ($0.84) | -23.54 |
| Clover Health Investments | $1.37 billion | 1.09 | -$43.01 million | ($0.08) | -36.50 |
TruBridge has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Clover Health Investments. Clover Health Investments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TruBridge, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Clover Health Investments beats TruBridge on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About TruBridge
TruBridge, Inc. provides healthcare solutions and services for community hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare systems in the United States and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Revenue Cycle Management (RCM), Electronic Health Record (HER), and Patient Engagement. It focuses on providing RCM solutions for care settings, regardless of primary healthcare information solutions provider along with business management, consulting, managed IT services, and analytics and business intelligence. The company provides acute care solutions and related services for community hospitals, and physician clinics; and patient engagement and empowerment technology solutions to improve patient outcomes and engagement strategies with care providers. In addition, it offers patient liability estimates eligibility verification, claim scrubbing and submission, remittance management, denial/audit management, and contract management; and offers RCM services, such as accounts receivable management, private pay service, medical coding, revenue cycle consulting, and other additional insurance and patient billing services. Further, it offers consulting and business management services; managed IT services; encoder solutions; patient management; financial accounting; clinical; patient care; and enterprise applications. Additionally, it offers TruBridge HER platform, including total system support, national client conference, continuing education, software releases, hardware replacement, cloud electronic health record, forms and supplies, and public cloud infrastructure services; post-acute care software systems, and support and maintenance services; and InstantPHR, an interactive portal and CHBase which funnels data from multiple sources into one platform. The company was formerly known as Computer Programs and Systems, Inc. and changed its name to TruBridge, Inc. in March 2024. TruBridge, Inc. was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Mobile, Alabama.
About Clover Health Investments
Clover Health Investments, Corp. provides medicare advantage plans in the United States. It operates through two segments: Insurance and Non-Insurance. It also offers Clover Assistant, a cloud-based software platform, that enables physicians to detect, identify, and manage chronic diseases earlier; and access to data-driven and personalized insights for the patients they treat. Clover Health Investments, Corp. is based in Franklin, Tennessee.
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