KORU Medical Systems (NASDAQ:KRMD – Get Free Report) and Healthcare Triangle (NASDAQ:HCTI – Get Free Report) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and risk.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares KORU Medical Systems and Healthcare Triangle”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| KORU Medical Systems | $41.13 million | 4.82 | -$2.64 million | ($0.06) | -70.83 |
| Healthcare Triangle | $12.94 million | 0.14 | -$5.97 million | ($6,047.91) | 0.00 |
Profitability
This table compares KORU Medical Systems and Healthcare Triangle’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| KORU Medical Systems | -6.41% | -15.90% | -9.77% |
| Healthcare Triangle | -48.85% | N/A | -59.99% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for KORU Medical Systems and Healthcare Triangle, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| KORU Medical Systems | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2.50 |
| Healthcare Triangle | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
KORU Medical Systems presently has a consensus price target of $6.50, suggesting a potential upside of 52.94%. Given KORU Medical Systems’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe KORU Medical Systems is more favorable than Healthcare Triangle.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
58.6% of KORU Medical Systems shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.3% of Healthcare Triangle shares are held by institutional investors. 20.6% of KORU Medical Systems shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Healthcare Triangle shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Volatility & Risk
KORU Medical Systems has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Healthcare Triangle has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
KORU Medical Systems beats Healthcare Triangle on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About KORU Medical Systems
KORU Medical Systems, Inc. develops and manufactures medical devices and supplies in the United States and internationally. It offers the freedom infusion systems to deliver life-saving therapies to patients with chronic illnesses, such as primary immunodeficiency diseases, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, and paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria. Its products include the FREEDOM60 syringe infusion system, the FreedomEdge syringe driver, HIgH-Flo subcutaneous safety needle sets, and precision flow rate tubing products. The company was incorporated in 1980 and is based in Mahwah, New Jersey.
About Healthcare Triangle
Healthcare Triangle, Inc., a healthcare information technology company, focuses on developing solutions in the sectors of cloud services, data science, and professional and managed services for the electronic health record, and healthcare and life sciences industry. It provides a suite of software, solutions, platforms, and services that enables healthcare and pharma organizations to deliver personalized healthcare, precision medicine, advances in drug discovery, development and efficacy, collaborative research and development, respond to evidence, and accelerate their digital transformation. The company’s software platforms include CloudEz, an enterprise multi-cloud transformation and management platform that enables customers to manage their cloud infrastructure in private, hybrid, and public cloud infrastructures; and DataEz, a cloud-based data analytics and data science platform for the data analytics and data science requirements of life sciences/pharmaceutical and healthcare provider organizations. It also provides Readabl.AI, a Software-as-a-Service solution that uses public cloud artificial intelligence and machine learning to recognize and extract healthcare information from documents, faxes, and narrative reports. In addition, the company offers cloud IT services; and healthcare IT services, such as electronic health records and software implementation, optimization, and extension to community partners, as well as application managed services, and backup and disaster recovery on public cloud. It primarily serves healthcare delivery organizations, healthcare insurance companies, pharmaceutical and life sciences, biotech companies, and medical device manufacturers. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Pleasanton, California. Healthcare Triangle, Inc. is a subsidiary of SecureKloud Technologies, Inc.
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