Viemed Healthcare (NASDAQ:VMD) and High Tide (NASDAQ:HITI) Critical Comparison

Viemed Healthcare (NASDAQ:VMD) and High Tide (NASDAQ:HITI) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk and earnings.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations for Viemed Healthcare and High Tide, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Viemed Healthcare	0	0	0	0	0.00
High Tide	0	0	2	0	3.00

High Tide has a consensus price target of $4.75, indicating a potential upside of 31.94%. Given High Tide’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe High Tide is more favorable than Viemed Healthcare.

Profitability

This table compares Viemed Healthcare and High Tide’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Viemed Healthcare	5.80%	10.38%	7.88%
High Tide	-1.71%	-6.45%	-3.93%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Viemed Healthcare and High Tide”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Viemed Healthcare	$224.26 million	1.27	$11.27 million	$0.34	21.68
High Tide	$381.22 million	0.77	-$3.19 million	($0.08)	-45.00

Viemed Healthcare has higher earnings, but lower revenue than High Tide. High Tide is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Viemed Healthcare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility and Risk

Viemed Healthcare has a beta of 1.38, indicating that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, High Tide has a beta of 0.58, indicating that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

74.2% of Viemed Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.5% of High Tide shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.0% of Viemed Healthcare shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.4% of High Tide shares are owned 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.

Summary

Viemed Healthcare beats High Tide on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Viemed Healthcare

Viemed Healthcare, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides home medical equipment (HME) and post-acute respiratory healthcare services to patients in the United States. It provides respiratory disease management solutions, including treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which include non-invasive ventilation, percussion vests, and other therapies; and invasive and non-invasive ventilation and related equipment and supplies to patients suffering from COPD. The company leases non-invasive and invasive ventilators, positive airway pressure machines (PAP), durable medical equipment, percussion vests, oxygen concentrators, and other medical equipment; and sells and rents HME devices. In addition, it provides neuromuscular care and oxygen therapy services; and sleep apnea management provides sleep solutions and/or equipment, such as PAP, automatic continuous positive airway pressure, and bi-level positive airway pressure machines. Further, the company offers in home sleep apnea testing services, as well as healthcare staffing and recruitment services. Viemed Healthcare, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana.

About High Tide

High Tide Inc. engages in the cannabis retail business in Canada, the United States, and internationally. The company operates through Retail and Wholesale segments. It operates licensed retail cannabis stores; and provides data analytics services. In addition, the company manufactures and distributes consumption accessories. Further, it sells its products through online sales via e-commerce platform. The company offers its products under the Daily High Club, DankStop, FABCBD, GC, Nuleaf, Smoke Cartel, and Blessed CBD brands. The company was formerly known as High Tide Ventures Inc. and changed its name to High Tide Inc. in October 2018. High Tide Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.