Reviewing Healthcare Triangle (NASDAQ:HCTI) and Zhongchao (NASDAQ:ZCMD)

Healthcare Triangle (NASDAQ:HCTI) and Zhongchao (NASDAQ:ZCMD) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.

Volatility and Risk

Healthcare Triangle has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zhongchao has a beta of -0.14, indicating that its share price is 114% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Healthcare Triangle and Zhongchao, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Healthcare Triangle	1	0	0	0	1.00
Zhongchao	1	0	0	0	1.00

Profitability

This table compares Healthcare Triangle and Zhongchao’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Healthcare Triangle	-48.85%	N/A	-59.99%
Zhongchao	N/A	N/A	N/A

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Healthcare Triangle and Zhongchao”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Healthcare Triangle	$11.70 million	1.17	-$5.97 million	($101.00)	-0.02
Zhongchao	$15.86 million	0.99	-$640,000.00	N/A	N/A

Zhongchao has higher revenue and earnings than Healthcare Triangle.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

0.3% of Healthcare Triangle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.7% of Zhongchao shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Healthcare Triangle shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 28.6% of Zhongchao shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Zhongchao beats Healthcare Triangle on 6 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Healthcare Triangle

Healthcare Triangle, Inc., a healthcare information technology company, focuses on developing solutions in the sectors of cloud services, data science, and professional and managed services for the electronic health record, and healthcare and life sciences industry. It provides a suite of software, solutions, platforms, and services that enables healthcare and pharma organizations to deliver personalized healthcare, precision medicine, advances in drug discovery, development and efficacy, collaborative research and development, respond to evidence, and accelerate their digital transformation. The company’s software platforms include CloudEz, an enterprise multi-cloud transformation and management platform that enables customers to manage their cloud infrastructure in private, hybrid, and public cloud infrastructures; and DataEz, a cloud-based data analytics and data science platform for the data analytics and data science requirements of life sciences/pharmaceutical and healthcare provider organizations. It also provides Readabl.AI, a Software-as-a-Service solution that uses public cloud artificial intelligence and machine learning to recognize and extract healthcare information from documents, faxes, and narrative reports. In addition, the company offers cloud IT services; and healthcare IT services, such as electronic health records and software implementation, optimization, and extension to community partners, as well as application managed services, and backup and disaster recovery on public cloud. It primarily serves healthcare delivery organizations, healthcare insurance companies, pharmaceutical and life sciences, biotech companies, and medical device manufacturers. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Pleasanton, California. Healthcare Triangle, Inc. is a subsidiary of SecureKloud Technologies, Inc.

About Zhongchao

Zhongchao Inc. provides healthcare information, education, and training services in the People's Republic of China. The company offers online and onsite health information services, healthcare education programs, and healthcare training products, including clinical practice training, open classes of popular medical topics, interactive case studies, academic conference and workshops, continuing education courses, and articles and short videos with educational healthcare content. It also provides customized medical courses and medical training services; and patient management services through online platform under the Zhongxun brand. The company operates through its mdmooc.org online platform under the MDMOOC brand; and Sunshine Health Forums, a Wechat subscription account and mobile app. It serves enterprises, non-for-profit organizations, and medical journals, as well as healthcare professionals, nurses, doctors, and other healthcare workers. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.