Beauty Health (NASDAQ:SKIN – Get Free Report) and Pacific Health Care Organization (OTCMKTS:PFHO – Get Free Report) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership and earnings.
Profitability
This table compares Beauty Health and Pacific Health Care Organization’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Beauty Health | -3.87% | -19.70% | -1.97% |
| Pacific Health Care Organization | 21.71% | 11.80% | 11.21% |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Beauty Health and Pacific Health Care Organization”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Beauty Health | $334.30 million | 0.54 | -$29.10 million | ($0.22) | -6.41 |
| Pacific Health Care Organization | $6.07 million | 2.74 | $880,000.00 | $0.11 | 11.82 |
Pacific Health Care Organization has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Beauty Health. Beauty Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pacific Health Care Organization, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
93.3% of Beauty Health shares are held by institutional investors. 41.0% of Beauty Health shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 61.6% of Pacific Health Care Organization shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Volatility and Risk
Beauty Health has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pacific Health Care Organization has a beta of 0.12, indicating that its share price is 88% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Beauty Health and Pacific Health Care Organization, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Beauty Health | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Pacific Health Care Organization | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Beauty Health currently has a consensus price target of $2.81, indicating a potential upside of 99.47%. Given Beauty Health’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Beauty Health is more favorable than Pacific Health Care Organization.
Summary
Pacific Health Care Organization beats Beauty Health on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Beauty Health
The Beauty Health Company designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells aesthetic technologies and products worldwide. The company's flagship product includes HydraFacial that enhance the skin to cleanse, extract, and hydrate the skin with proprietary solutions and serums. Its products also comprise Syndeo, a Delivery System designs to connects providers to the consumer's preferences to create a more personalized experience; consumables, such as single-use tips, solutions, and serums used to provide a hydrafacial treatment; SkinStylus SteriLock Microsystem, a microneedling device used for the treatment of enhancing appearance of surgical or traumatic hypertrophic scars on the abdomen and facial acne scarring in Fitzpatrick skin types I, II, and III; and Keravive, a treatment for scalp health. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Long Beach, California.
About Pacific Health Care Organization
Pacific Health Care Organization, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a specialty workers' compensation cost containment company in the United States. It is involved in managing and administering health care organizations (HCOs) and medical provider networks (MPNs). The company also provides claims-related services, including utilization review, medical case management, medical bill review, employee advocate services, workers' compensation carve-outs, expert witness testimony, and Medicare set-aside services. It serves insurers, third party administrators, self-administered employers, municipalities, and other industries. The company was formerly known as Clear Air, Inc. and changed its name to Pacific Health Care Organization, Inc. in January 2001. Pacific Health Care Organization, Inc. was incorporated in 1970 and is based in Irvine, California.
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