Critical Survey: TruBridge (NASDAQ:TBRG) versus AGM Group (NASDAQ:AGMH)

TruBridge (NASDAQ:TBRG) and AGM Group (NASDAQ:AGMH) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.

Profitability

This table compares TruBridge and AGM Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
TruBridge	-17.72%	1.78%	0.78%
AGM Group	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings for TruBridge and AGM Group, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
TruBridge	0	2	2	0	2.50
AGM Group	0	0	0	0	0.00

TruBridge presently has a consensus price target of $14.50, indicating a potential downside of 37.04%. Given TruBridge’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe TruBridge is more favorable than AGM Group.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

88.6% of TruBridge shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of TruBridge shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 34.9% of AGM Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

TruBridge has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AGM Group has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
TruBridge	$337.67 million	1.02	-$44.76 million	($4.09)	-5.63
AGM Group	$92.91 million	0.38	-$7.44 million	N/A	N/A

AGM Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TruBridge.

Summary

TruBridge beats AGM Group on 8 of the 12 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 AGM Group

AGM Group Holdings Inc. operates as a technology company, engages in the research and development of blockchain-oriented ASIC chip in Singapore, Hong Kong, and China. The company offers MetaTrader 5, a futures trading solution; and foreign exchange trading system that provides services to financial institutions. It also engages in the research and development, manufacture, and sales of technology hardware. In addition, the company sells cryptocurrency mining machine and standardized computing equipment, and technical support plans, as well as delivers fintech software services. AGM Group Holdings Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.