Financial Survey: Hims & Hers Health (NYSE:HIMS) and Health Catalyst (NASDAQ:HCAT)

Hims & Hers Health (NYSE:HIMS) and Health Catalyst (NASDAQ:HCAT) are both medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and risk.

Profitability

This table compares Hims & Hers Health and Health Catalyst’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Hims & Hers Health	-0.56%	6.10%	1.52%
Health Catalyst	-87.69%	-3.52%	-1.77%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Hims & Hers Health and Health Catalyst”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Hims & Hers Health	$2.37 billion	2.28	$128.37 million	($0.09)	-263.46
Health Catalyst	$311.14 million	0.31	-$177.97 million	($3.72)	-0.35

Hims & Hers Health has higher revenue and earnings than Health Catalyst. Hims & Hers Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Health Catalyst, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk and Volatility

Hims & Hers Health has a beta of 2.43, meaning that its share price is 143% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Health Catalyst has a beta of 1.63, meaning that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Hims & Hers Health and Health Catalyst, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Hims & Hers Health	2	11	4	0	2.12
Health Catalyst	1	8	4	0	2.23

Hims & Hers Health presently has a consensus price target of $28.90, indicating a potential upside of 21.88%. Health Catalyst has a consensus price target of $2.77, indicating a potential upside of 114.94%. Given Health Catalyst’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Health Catalyst is more favorable than Hims & Hers Health.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

63.5% of Hims & Hers Health shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.0% of Health Catalyst shares are held by institutional investors. 11.8% of Hims & Hers Health shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Health Catalyst shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Hims & Hers Health beats Health Catalyst on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Hims & Hers Health

Hims & Hers Health, Inc. operates a telehealth consultation platform. It connects consumers to healthcare professionals, enabling them to access medical care for mental health, sexual health, dermatology and primary care. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

About Health Catalyst

Health Catalyst, Inc. provides data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations in the United States. It operates in two segments, Technology and Professional Services. The company provides data operating system data platform which provides clients single comprehensive environment to integrate and organize data from their disparate software systems; and analytics applications, a software analytics applications build for data platform to analyze clients face across clinical and quality, population health, and financial and operational use cases. It offers services expertise solutions comprising data and analytics, domain expertise and education, tech-enabled managed, and implementation services; and opportunity analysis and prioritization, data governance, data modeling and analysis, quality and process improvement strategy, cost accounting, data abstraction, and population health strategies. The company was formerly known as HQC Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Health Catalyst, Inc. in March 2017. Health Catalyst, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in South Jordan, Utah.