Critical Comparison: TruBridge (NASDAQ:TBRG) versus Venus Acquisition (NASDAQ:VENA)

TruBridge (NASDAQ:TBRG) and Venus Acquisition (NASDAQ:VENA) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

88.6% of TruBridge shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.0% of Venus Acquisition shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of TruBridge shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.7% of Venus Acquisition shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for TruBridge and Venus Acquisition, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
TruBridge	0	0	2	0	3.00
Venus Acquisition	0	0	0	0	N/A

TruBridge presently has a consensus target price of $13.50, indicating a potential upside of 12.41%. Given TruBridge’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe TruBridge is more favorable than Venus Acquisition.

Volatility & Risk

TruBridge has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Venus Acquisition has a beta of -0.05, indicating that its stock price is 105% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares TruBridge and Venus Acquisition’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
TruBridge	-15.93%	6.57%	3.03%
Venus Acquisition	N/A	-2.37%	0.14%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares TruBridge and Venus Acquisition”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
TruBridge	$336.56 million	0.54	-$44.76 million	($3.53)	-3.40
Venus Acquisition	N/A	N/A	-$810,000.00	N/A	N/A

Venus Acquisition has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TruBridge.

Summary

TruBridge beats Venus Acquisition on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About TruBridge

TruBridge, Inc. provides healthcare solutions and services for community hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare systems in the United States and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Revenue Cycle Management (RCM), Electronic Health Record (HER), and Patient Engagement. It focuses on providing RCM solutions for care settings, regardless of primary healthcare information solutions provider along with business management, consulting, managed IT services, and analytics and business intelligence. The company provides acute care solutions and related services for community hospitals, and physician clinics; and patient engagement and empowerment technology solutions to improve patient outcomes and engagement strategies with care providers. In addition, it offers patient liability estimates eligibility verification, claim scrubbing and submission, remittance management, denial/audit management, and contract management; and offers RCM services, such as accounts receivable management, private pay service, medical coding, revenue cycle consulting, and other additional insurance and patient billing services. Further, it offers consulting and business management services; managed IT services; encoder solutions; patient management; financial accounting; clinical; patient care; and enterprise applications. Additionally, it offers TruBridge HER platform, including total system support, national client conference, continuing education, software releases, hardware replacement, cloud electronic health record, forms and supplies, and public cloud infrastructure services; post-acute care software systems, and support and maintenance services; and InstantPHR, an interactive portal and CHBase which funnels data from multiple sources into one platform. The company was formerly known as Computer Programs and Systems, Inc. and changed its name to TruBridge, Inc. in March 2024. TruBridge, Inc. was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Mobile, Alabama.

About Venus Acquisition

Venus Acquisition Corporation does not have significant operations. The company focuses on effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, and business combination with one or more businesses. It intends to focus on businesses in the Internet and high technology, financial technology, clean energy, health care, consumer and retail, energy and resources, food processing, manufacturing, and education sectors in Asian market. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.