Contrasting 6D Global Technologies (OTCMKTS:SIXD) & Astrana Health (NASDAQ:ASTH)

6D Global Technologies (OTCMKTS:SIXD) and Astrana Health (NASDAQ:ASTH) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for 6D Global Technologies and Astrana Health, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
6D Global Technologies	0	0	0	0	0.00
Astrana Health	0	2	5	1	2.88

Astrana Health has a consensus target price of $65.60, suggesting a potential upside of 158.47%. Given Astrana Health’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Astrana Health is more favorable than 6D Global Technologies.

Profitability

This table compares 6D Global Technologies and Astrana Health’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
6D Global Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A
Astrana Health	3.63%	9.37%	5.32%

Risk & Volatility

6D Global Technologies has a beta of 15, meaning that its stock price is 1,400% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Astrana Health has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

52.8% of Astrana Health shares are held by institutional investors. 30.2% of 6D Global Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of Astrana Health shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares 6D Global Technologies and Astrana Health”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
6D Global Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Astrana Health	$1.72 billion	0.83	$60.72 million	$1.30	19.52

Astrana Health has higher revenue and earnings than 6D Global Technologies.

Summary

Astrana Health beats 6D Global Technologies on 9 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About 6D Global Technologies

6D Global Technologies, Inc. is a holding company which engages in the digital business solutions. It operates through the Content Management Systems and Information Technology (IT) Staffing segments. The Content Management Systems segment offers web content management solutions, marketing cloud solutions, mobile applications, analytics, front-end user experience and design and marketing automation. The IT staffing segment provides contract and contract-to-hire IT professional staffing services. The company was founded by Tejune Kang on February 9, 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

About Astrana Health

Astrana Health, Inc., Inc., a physician-centric technology-powered healthcare management company, provides medical care services in the United States. It operates through three segments: Care Partners, Care Delivery, and Care Enablement. The company is leveraging its proprietary population health management and healthcare delivery platform, operates an integrated, value-based healthcare model which empowers the providers in its network to deliver care to its patients. It offers care coordination services to patients, families, primary care physicians, specialists, acute care hospitals, alternative sites of inpatient care, physician groups, and health plans. The company's physician network consists of primary care physicians, specialist physicians and extenders, and hospitalists. It serves patients, primarily covered by private or public insurance, such as Medicare, Medicaid, and health maintenance organization plans; and non-insured patients. The company was formerly known as Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Astrana Health, Inc. in February 2024. Astrana Health, Inc. was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in Alhambra, California.