Critical Analysis: Pediatrix Medical Group (NYSE:MD) and CarePayment Technologies (OTCMKTS:CPYT)

CarePayment Technologies (OTCMKTS:CPYT) and Pediatrix Medical Group (NYSE:MD) are both medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for CarePayment Technologies and Pediatrix Medical Group, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CarePayment Technologies	0	0	0	0	0.00
Pediatrix Medical Group	0	5	1	0	2.17

Pediatrix Medical Group has a consensus target price of $21.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.38%. Given Pediatrix Medical Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Pediatrix Medical Group is more favorable than CarePayment Technologies.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

97.7% of Pediatrix Medical Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.9% of CarePayment Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Pediatrix Medical Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares CarePayment Technologies and Pediatrix Medical Group”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CarePayment Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Pediatrix Medical Group	$2.01 billion	0.89	-$99.07 million	$1.90	11.01

CarePayment Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Pediatrix Medical Group.

Profitability

This table compares CarePayment Technologies and Pediatrix Medical Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CarePayment Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A
Pediatrix Medical Group	8.44%	20.45%	7.94%

Summary

Pediatrix Medical Group beats CarePayment Technologies on 8 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About CarePayment Technologies

CarePayment Technologies, Inc. provides accounts receivable services in the United States. It offers services for accounts receivables generated by healthcare providers in connection with providing healthcare services to their patients under the CarePayment brand name. The company was formerly known as microHelix, Inc. CarePayment Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is based in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

About Pediatrix Medical Group

Pediatrix Medical Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides newborn, maternal-fetal, pediatric cardiology, and other pediatric subspecialty care services in the United States. It offers neonatal care services, such as clinical care to babies born prematurely or with complications within specific units at hospitals through neonatal physician subspecialists, neonatal nurse practitioners, and other pediatric clinicians. The company also provides maternal-fetal care services, including inpatient and office-based clinical care to expectant mothers and unborn babies through affiliated maternal-fetal medicine subspecialists, as well as obstetricians and other clinicians, including maternal-fetal nurse practitioners, certified nurse mid-wives, sonographers, and genetic counselors. In addition, it offers pediatric cardiology care services comprising inpatient and office-based pediatric cardiology care of the fetus, infant, child, and adolescent patient with congenital heart defects and acquired heart disease, as well as adults with congenital heart defects through affiliated pediatric cardiologist subspecialists and other related clinical professionals, including pediatric nurse practitioners, echocardiographers, other diagnostic technicians, and exercise physiologists; and specialized cardiac care to the fetus, neonatal and pediatric patients. Further, the company provides other pediatric subspecialty care services, such as pediatric intensivists, pediatric hospitalists, pediatric surgeons, and pediatric ophthalmologists, as well as pediatric ear, nose, and throat physicians, pediatric gastroenterologists; and support services in the areas of hospitals, primarily in the pediatric emergency rooms, labor and delivery areas, and nursery and pediatric departments. The company was formerly known as MEDNAX, Inc. and changed its name to Pediatrix Medical Group, Inc. in July 2022. Pediatrix Medical Group, Inc. was founded in 1979 and is based in Sunrise, Florida.