Nutex Health (NASDAQ:NUTX – Get Free Report) and INVO Fertility (NASDAQ:IVF – Get Free Report) are both small-cap healthcare companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends and earnings.
Profitability
This table compares Nutex Health and INVO Fertility’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Nutex Health | 21.25% | 39.74% | 18.91% |
| INVO Fertility | -116.29% | -85.54% | -31.05% |
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Nutex Health and INVO Fertility”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Nutex Health | $875.26 million | 1.46 | $70.79 million | $25.47 | 7.31 |
| INVO Fertility | $6.84 million | 0.20 | -$25.13 million | ($33.83) | -0.02 |
Nutex Health has higher revenue and earnings than INVO Fertility. INVO Fertility is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nutex Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Nutex Health and INVO Fertility, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Nutex Health | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2.75 |
| INVO Fertility | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2.50 |
Nutex Health presently has a consensus target price of $317.50, indicating a potential upside of 70.61%. INVO Fertility has a consensus target price of $20.00, indicating a potential upside of 3,486.80%. Given INVO Fertility’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe INVO Fertility is more favorable than Nutex Health.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
5.3% of Nutex Health shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.0% of INVO Fertility shares are owned by institutional investors. 44.7% of Nutex Health shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of INVO Fertility shares are owned by 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
Nutex Health has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, INVO Fertility has a beta of 2.39, indicating that its stock price is 139% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Nutex Health beats INVO Fertility on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Nutex Health
Nutex Health Inc. operates as a physician-led, healthcare services, and operations company. It operates through three segments: Hospital, Population Health Management (PHM), and Real Estate. The PHM segment establishes and operates independent physician associations; and offers a cloud-based platform for healthcare organizations to provide value-based care and population health management. The Real Estate segment owns and owns and leases land and hospital building. The Hospital segment develops and operates a network of micro-hospitals, specialty hospitals and hospital outpatient departments which offers 24/7 care. It also provides operational and managerial services, including management, billing, collections, human resources and recruiting, legal, accounting, and marketing. In addition, the company offers healthcare services, including emergency room care, inpatient care, and behavioral health, as well as onsite imaging, such as CT scan, X-ray, MRI, ultrasound, etc.; certified and accredited laboratories; and onsite inpatient pharmacies. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Houston, Texas.
About INVO Fertility
INVO Bioscience, Inc., together with its subsidiary, a healthcare services fertility company, provides assisted reproductive technology solutions worldwide. It offers INVOcell, a medical device that allows fertilization and early embryo development to take place in vivo within the woman’s body. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Sarasota, Florida.
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