Healthcare Triangle (NASDAQ:HCTI – Get Free Report) and P3 Health Partners (NASDAQ:PIII – Get Free Report) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for Healthcare Triangle and P3 Health Partners, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Healthcare Triangle | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| P3 Health Partners | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
P3 Health Partners has a consensus price target of $14.00, suggesting a potential downside of 15.00%. Given P3 Health Partners’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe P3 Health Partners is more favorable than Healthcare Triangle.
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Healthcare Triangle | $13.89 million | 0.38 | -$9.48 million | ($66.69) | -0.04 |
| P3 Health Partners | $1.46 billion | 0.08 | -$147.95 million | ($38.60) | -0.43 |
Healthcare Triangle has higher earnings, but lower revenue than P3 Health Partners. P3 Health Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Healthcare Triangle, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Healthcare Triangle and P3 Health Partners’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Healthcare Triangle | -70.43% | -166.88% | -43.00% |
| P3 Health Partners | -8.57% | -302.33% | -19.99% |
Volatility & Risk
Healthcare Triangle has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, P3 Health Partners has a beta of 0.48, indicating that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
0.3% of Healthcare Triangle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.8% of P3 Health Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Healthcare Triangle shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.8% of P3 Health Partners shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
P3 Health Partners beats Healthcare Triangle on 9 of the 14 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 P3 Health Partners
P3 Health Partners Inc., a patient-centered and physician-led population health management company, provides superior care services in the United States. It operates clinics and wellness centers. P3 Health Partners Inc. was founded in 2020 and is based in Henderson, Nevada.
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