Financial Contrast: Patient Portal Technologies (OTCMKTS:PPRG) and Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR)

Patient Portal Technologies (OTCMKTS:PPRG – Get Rating) and Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR – Get Rating) are both medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Profitability

This table compares Patient Portal Technologies and Radware’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Patient Portal Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A
Radware	-2.43%	-0.40%	-0.23%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Patient Portal Technologies and Radware’s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Patient Portal Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Radware	$288.76 million	2.84	-$170,000.00	($0.16)	-117.13

Patient Portal Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Radware.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

75.0% of Radware shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.6% of Radware shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility & Risk

Patient Portal Technologies has a beta of 5.27, suggesting that its share price is 427% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Radware has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Patient Portal Technologies and Radware, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Patient Portal Technologies	0	0	0	0	N/A
Radware	0	2	1	0	2.33

Radware has a consensus target price of $22.50, indicating a potential upside of 20.06%.

About Patient Portal Technologies

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Patient Portal Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of healthcare technology, software, and services. It also offers non-medical management and patient support services assisting hospitals to improve patient satisfaction and outcomes. The company was founded on November 21, 2002 and is headquartered in Baldwinsville, NY.

About Radware

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Radware Ltd. engages in the provision of application delivery and cyber security solutions for virtual, cloud, and software defined data centers. Its products include application and network security, and application delivery. The application and network security offers real-time network and application attack mitigation solution that protects the application infrastructure against network and application downtime, application vulnerability exploitation, malware spread, information theft, web service attacks, and web defacement. The application delivery is designed to simplify operations while ensuring business applications resilience and application service level agreement. The company was founded by Yehuda Zisapel and Roy Zisapel on May 16, 1996 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.