CareCloud (NASDAQ:CCLD – Get Free Report) and Health Catalyst (NASDAQ:HCAT – Get Free Report) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
10.2% of CareCloud shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.0% of Health Catalyst shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.7% of CareCloud shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Health Catalyst shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Volatility and Risk
CareCloud has a beta of 1.94, indicating that its stock price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Health Catalyst has a beta of 1.72, indicating that its stock price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| CareCloud | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2.25 |
| Health Catalyst | 1 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 2.29 |
CareCloud presently has a consensus price target of $2.38, suggesting a potential downside of 26.01%. Health Catalyst has a consensus price target of $4.36, suggesting a potential upside of 78.84%. Given Health Catalyst’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Health Catalyst is more favorable than CareCloud.
Profitability
This table compares CareCloud and Health Catalyst’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| CareCloud | 9.80% | 24.31% | 17.03% |
| Health Catalyst | -34.05% | -6.67% | -3.21% |
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares CareCloud and Health Catalyst”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| CareCloud | $110.84 million | 1.23 | $7.85 million | $0.04 | 80.25 |
| Health Catalyst | $306.58 million | 0.56 | -$69.50 million | ($1.59) | -1.53 |
CareCloud has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Health Catalyst. Health Catalyst is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CareCloud, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
CareCloud beats Health Catalyst on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About CareCloud
CareCloud, Inc., a healthcare information technology (IT) company, provides a suite of cloud-based solutions and related business services to healthcare providers and hospitals primarily in the United States. It operates in two segments, Healthcare IT and Medical Practice Management. The company's portfolio of proprietary software and business services includes technology-enabled business solutions; cloud-based software; digital health services; healthcare IT professional services and staffing; and medical practice management services. Its technology-enabled business solutions comprise revenue cycle management services, healthcare claims clearinghouse, and medical coding and credentialing services; electronic health records, practice management software and related capabilities, patient experience management solutions, business intelligence and healthcare analytics platforms, and customized applications, interfaces, and various other technology solutions, as well as artificial intelligence, such as CareCloud cirrusAI, AI-powered clinical decision support, AI-powered virtual support assistant, AI-driven appeals, and CareCloud cirrusAI. In addition, the company provides chronic care management, remote patient monitoring, and telemedicine solutions; and professional and consulting services, workforce augmentation and on-demand staffing, and strategic advisory services. Further, it offers medical practice management services to medical practices comprising appropriate facilities, equipment, supplies, support services, nurses, and administrative support staff, as well as management, bill-paying, and financial advisory services. It serves physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other clinicians that render bills for their services. The company was formerly known as MTBC, Inc. and changed its name to CareCloud, Inc. in March 2021. CareCloud, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey.
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.
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