Contrasting Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock (NASDAQ:PHLT) and Oriental Culture (NYSE:OCG)

Oriental Culture (NYSE:OCG) and Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock (NASDAQ:PHLT) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.

Risk & Volatility

Oriental Culture has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock has a beta of -0.11, meaning that its stock price is 111% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Oriental Culture and Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Oriental Culture	0	0	0	0	0.00
Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock	0	0	0	1	4.00

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Oriental Culture and Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Oriental Culture	$1.23 million	43.10	-$3.60 million	N/A	N/A
Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock	$122.98 million	1.64	-$7.52 million	($0.13)	-19.85

Oriental Culture has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

1.6% of Oriental Culture shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.2% of Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.9% of Oriental Culture shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.2% of Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Oriental Culture and Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Oriental Culture	N/A	N/A	N/A
Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock	-6.74%	-10.19%	-7.83%

Summary

Oriental Culture beats Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Oriental Culture

Oriental Culture Holding LTD, through its subsidiaries, operates an online platform to facilitate e-commerce trading of artwork and collectables in China and Hong Kong. The company facilitates trading by individual and institutional customers of various collectibles, artworks, and commodities on its online platforms. It also provides online and offline integrated marketing, storage, and technical maintenance services. In addition, the company offers industry solutions and related software products, and system development and technical support services. Further, it is involved in the development of Wine and Spirits metaverse project. Oriental Culture Holding LTD was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Central, Hong Kong.

About Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock

Performant Healthcare, Inc. engages in the provision of technology-enabled audit, recovery, customer care, and related analytics services. Its services help identify improper payments, and in some markets, restructure and recover delinquent or defaulted assets and improper payments for both government and private clients. The company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Plantation, FL.