MDxHealth (NASDAQ:MDXH – Get Free Report) and TruBridge (NASDAQ:TBRG – Get Free Report) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends and valuation.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
88.6% of TruBridge shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of MDxHealth shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.7% of TruBridge shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares MDxHealth and TruBridge”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| MDxHealth | $90.05 million | 1.80 | -$38.07 million | ($0.64) | -5.34 |
| TruBridge | $339.17 million | 0.83 | -$19.67 million | $0.19 | 99.21 |
TruBridge has higher revenue and earnings than MDxHealth. MDxHealth 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 MDxHealth and TruBridge’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| MDxHealth | -30.50% | -1,078.01% | -20.05% |
| TruBridge | 0.85% | 12.23% | 5.37% |
Volatility & Risk
MDxHealth has a beta of 1.64, suggesting that its share price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TruBridge has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for MDxHealth and TruBridge, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| MDxHealth | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2.60 |
| TruBridge | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
MDxHealth presently has a consensus target price of $7.75, suggesting a potential upside of 126.61%. TruBridge has a consensus target price of $24.88, suggesting a potential upside of 31.96%. Given MDxHealth’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe MDxHealth is more favorable than TruBridge.
Summary
TruBridge beats MDxHealth on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About MDxHealth
MDxHealth SA, a commercial-stage precision diagnostics company, provides urologic solutions in the United States, Europe, and internationally. Its testing solutions includes Select mdx, a non-invasive urine test for prostate cancer that measures the expression of two mRNA cancer-related biomarkers; Confirm mdx for prostate cancer tissue test that validates epigenetic test that guides the detection of occult prostate cancer on a patient's previously biopsied negative tissue; and Resolved mdx for urinary tract infection that identifies personalized effective antibiotic options against the patient's infection. The company offers genomic prostate score which provides personalized genomic insights to both physicians and patients navigating the complexities of prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment. It sells its products through urology sales force, consisting of direct sales representatives, strategic account managers, and regional sales managers. The company was formerly known as OncoMethylome Sciences SA and changed its name to MDxHealth SA in October 2010. MDxHealth SA was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in Herstal, Belgium.
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.
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