Tivic Health Systems (NASDAQ:TIVC – Get Free Report) and TruBridge (NASDAQ:TBRG – Get Free Report) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, dividends and institutional ownership.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
4.3% of Tivic Health Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.6% of TruBridge shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Tivic Health Systems shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.7% of TruBridge shares are owned by 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.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Tivic Health Systems and TruBridge, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Tivic Health Systems | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| TruBridge | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
Profitability
This table compares Tivic Health Systems and TruBridge’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Tivic Health Systems | -1,557.26% | -202.20% | -173.34% |
| TruBridge | 0.85% | 12.23% | 5.37% |
Volatility and Risk
Tivic Health Systems has a beta of 1.97, indicating that its share price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TruBridge has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Tivic Health Systems and TruBridge”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Tivic Health Systems | $780,000.00 | 4.07 | -$5.66 million | ($6.68) | -0.27 |
| TruBridge | $339.17 million | 0.99 | -$19.67 million | $0.19 | 117.79 |
Tivic Health Systems has higher earnings, but lower revenue than TruBridge. Tivic Health Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TruBridge, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
TruBridge beats Tivic Health Systems on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Tivic Health Systems
Tivic Health Systems Inc. operates as a health tech company, focuses on developing and commercializing bioelectronic medicine. Its primary product is ClearUP, a bioelectronic medicine for the treatment of sinus and nasal inflammation. The company sells its products on direct-to-consumer channel through its own websites; and platforms, such as Amazon.com and Walmart.com, as well as to U.S. online retailers, such as BestBuy and FSAStore and through distributors. Tivic Health Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Hayward, California.
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.
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