GE HealthCare Technologies (NASDAQ:GEHC) & Oramed Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ORMP) Critical Review

Oramed Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ORMP) and GE HealthCare Technologies (NASDAQ:GEHC) are both medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Oramed Pharmaceuticals and GE HealthCare Technologies, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Oramed Pharmaceuticals	0	1	0	0	2.00
GE HealthCare Technologies	0	7	7	0	2.50

GE HealthCare Technologies has a consensus price target of $88.17, suggesting a potential upside of 0.01%. Given GE HealthCare Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe GE HealthCare Technologies is more favorable than Oramed Pharmaceuticals.

Profitability

This table compares Oramed Pharmaceuticals and GE HealthCare Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Oramed Pharmaceuticals	N/A	-5.57%	-5.22%
GE HealthCare Technologies	10.94%	22.52%	6.09%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

12.7% of Oramed Pharmaceuticals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.1% of GE HealthCare Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 17.8% of Oramed Pharmaceuticals shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of GE HealthCare Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Oramed Pharmaceuticals and GE HealthCare Technologies”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Oramed Pharmaceuticals	$2.00 million	69.26	-$19.06 million	$1.26	2.76
GE HealthCare Technologies	$19.67 billion	2.04	$1.99 billion	$4.84	18.21

GE HealthCare Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Oramed Pharmaceuticals. Oramed Pharmaceuticals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GE HealthCare Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility & Risk

Oramed Pharmaceuticals has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GE HealthCare Technologies has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

GE HealthCare Technologies beats Oramed Pharmaceuticals on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Oramed Pharmaceuticals

Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. engages in the research and development of pharmaceutical solutions for the treatment of diabetes and for the use of orally ingestible capsules for delivery of polypeptides. The company's product portfolio includes ORMD-0801, an oral insulin capsule, which is in phase III clinical trial for the treatment of individuals with diabetes, as well as in phase II clinical trial for the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis; and ORA-D-013-1 and ORA-D-013-2, which have completed phase II clinical trial for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. It has license agreements with Oravax Medical Inc. to commercialize oral vaccines for COVID-19 and other novel coronaviruses. Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. was incorporated in 2002 and is headquartered in New York.

About GE HealthCare Technologies

GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of products, services, and complementary digital solutions used in the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of patients in the United States, Canada, and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Imaging, Ultrasound, Patient Care Solutions, and Pharmaceutical Diagnostics. The Imaging segment offers molecular imaging, computed tomography (CT) scanning, magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, image-guided therapy, X-ray systems, and women’s health products. The Ultrasound segment provides medical devices and solutions for screening, diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of certain diseases in clinical areas, such as radiology and primary care, women’s health, cardiovascular, and point of care and handheld ultrasound solutions, as well as surgical visualization and guidance products. The Patient Care Solutions segment provides medical devices, consumables, services, and digital solutions. Its portfolio includes patient monitoring solutions, anesthesia delivery and respiratory care products, electrocardiogram solutions, maternal infant care products, and consumables and services. The Pharmaceutical Diagnostics supplies diagnostic agents, including CT, angiography and X-ray, MR, single-photon emission computed tomography, positron emission tomography, and ultrasound to the radiology and nuclear medicine industry. The segment also provides contrast media pharmaceuticals that are administered to a patient prior to certain diagnostic scans to increase the visibility of tissues or structures during imaging exams; and molecular imaging agents or radiopharmaceuticals, which are molecular tracers labeled with radioisotopes. It has an AI collaboration with Mass General Brigham. The company was formerly known as GE Healthcare Holding LLC and changed its name to GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. in December 2022. The company was incorporated in 2022 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.