Contrasting Health Catalyst (NASDAQ:HCAT) and Reliq Health Technologies (OTCMKTS:RQHTF)

Reliq Health Technologies (OTCMKTS:RQHTF) and Health Catalyst (NASDAQ:HCAT) are both healthcare companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

0.0% of Reliq Health Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.0% of Health Catalyst shares are held by institutional investors. 19.4% of Health Catalyst shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Reliq Health Technologies 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
Reliq Health Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Health Catalyst	$311.14 million	0.38	-$177.97 million	($3.68)	-0.43

Reliq Health Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Health Catalyst.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Reliq Health Technologies and Health Catalyst, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Reliq Health Technologies	0	0	0	0	0.00
Health Catalyst	1	8	3	0	2.17

Health Catalyst has a consensus target price of $2.45, suggesting a potential upside of 54.09%. Given Health Catalyst’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Health Catalyst is more favorable than Reliq Health Technologies.

Profitability

This table compares Reliq Health Technologies and Health Catalyst’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Reliq Health Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A
Health Catalyst	-90.61%	-1.83%	-0.80%

Summary

Health Catalyst beats Reliq Health Technologies on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Reliq Health Technologies

Reliq Health Technologies Inc., a healthcare technology company, develops secure telemedicine and virtual care solutions for the healthcare market. It offers iUGO Care platform, a software as a solution that allows complex patients to receive care in the home. The company was formerly known as Moseda Technologies Inc. and changed its name to Reliq Health Technologies Inc. in May 2016. Reliq Health Technologies Inc. was incorporated in 2005 is headquartered in Hamilton, Canada.

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.