Reviewing Hero Technologies (OTCMKTS:HENC) & biote (NASDAQ:BTMD)

biote (NASDAQ:BTMD – Get Rating) and Hero Technologies (OTCMKTS:HENC – Get Rating) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares biote and Hero Technologies’ top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
biote	$164.96 million	2.28	-$970,000.00	$0.06	89.18
Hero Technologies	N/A	N/A	-$540,000.00	N/A	N/A

Hero Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than biote.

Risk and Volatility

biote has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hero Technologies has a beta of -0.02, suggesting that its share price is 102% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares biote and Hero Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
biote	56.20%	-46.62%	29.08%
Hero Technologies	N/A	N/A	-201.06%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

3.8% of biote shares are held by institutional investors. 16.6% of biote shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Hero Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for biote and Hero Technologies, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
biote	0	0	5	0	3.00
Hero Technologies	0	0	0	0	N/A

biote currently has a consensus target price of $10.40, suggesting a potential upside of 94.39%. Given biote’s higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe biote is more favorable than Hero Technologies.

Summary

biote beats Hero Technologies on 8 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About biote

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biote Corp. operates in medical practice-building business within the hormone optimization space. The company offers a platform for Biote-certified practitioners to optimize imbalances in their patient's hormone, vitamin, and mineral levels, as well as prescribe bioidentical hormone therapies and recommend dietary supplements. It also sells Biote-branded dietary supplements; and sterile pellet insertion kits for men and women. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Irvine, Texas.

About Hero Technologies

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Hero Technologies, Inc. engages in the exploration, production, and development of oil and gas properties. It focuses on Australia’s Cooper Basin, which is located in State of South Australia. The company was founded on May 14, 2004 and is headquartered in Dover, DE.