TruBridge (NASDAQ:TBRG – Get Free Report) and Tivic Health Systems (NASDAQ:TIVC – Get Free Report) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability and earnings.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
88.6% of TruBridge shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.3% of Tivic Health Systems shares are held by institutional investors. 10.7% of TruBridge shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Tivic Health Systems shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for TruBridge and Tivic Health Systems, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| TruBridge | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Tivic Health Systems | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Risk & Volatility
TruBridge has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tivic Health Systems has a beta of 1.97, suggesting that its share price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares TruBridge and Tivic Health Systems”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| TruBridge | $339.17 million | 0.98 | -$19.67 million | $0.19 | 116.13 |
| Tivic Health Systems | $780,000.00 | 4.11 | -$5.66 million | ($6.68) | -0.27 |
Tivic Health Systems has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
Profitability
This table compares TruBridge and Tivic Health Systems’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| TruBridge | 0.85% | 12.23% | 5.37% |
| Tivic Health Systems | -1,557.26% | -202.20% | -173.34% |
Summary
TruBridge beats Tivic Health Systems on 11 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 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.
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