American Well (NYSE:AMWL – Get Free Report) and TruBridge (NASDAQ:TBRG – Get Free Report) are both small-cap 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.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares American Well and TruBridge”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| American Well | $249.32 million | 0.58 | -$95.70 million | ($5.42) | -1.60 |
| TruBridge | $346.84 million | 1.13 | $4.21 million | $0.20 | 130.60 |
Risk & Volatility
American Well has a beta of 1.69, suggesting that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TruBridge has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings for American Well and TruBridge, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| American Well | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| TruBridge | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
American Well presently has a consensus target price of $7.20, indicating a potential downside of 17.08%. TruBridge has a consensus target price of $23.95, indicating a potential downside of 8.31%. Given TruBridge’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe TruBridge is more favorable than American Well.
Profitability
This table compares American Well and TruBridge’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| American Well | -37.02% | -32.11% | -24.12% |
| TruBridge | 0.92% | 18.75% | 8.32% |
Institutional & Insider Ownership
56.1% of American Well shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.6% of TruBridge shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.8% of American Well shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.7% of TruBridge 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.
Summary
TruBridge beats American Well on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About American Well
American Well Corporation, an enterprise platform and software company, delivers digitally enabling hybrid care in the United States and internationally. The company offers Converge, a cloud-based platform that enables health providers, payers, and innovators to provide in-person, virtual and automated care; and delivers virtual primary care, post-discharge follow-up, chronic condition management, virtual nursing, e-sitting, on-demand and scheduled virtual visits, specialty consults, automated care, and behavioral health, as well as specialty care programs, including dermatology, musculoskeletal care, second opinion, and cardiometabolic care to patients and members. It provides Carepoint devices comprising carts, peripherals, tablets, and TVs, which serve as digital access points in clinical settings. In addition, the company offers Amwell Medical Group network services consisting of primary and urgent care, behavioral health therapy, acute psychiatry, lactation counseling, and nutrition services. Further, it provides professional services to facilitate implementation, workflow design, systems integration, and service expansion for its products, as well as patient and provider engagement services. The company sells its products through field sales professionals, channel partners, and value-added resellers. American Well Corporation was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
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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