TruBridge (NASDAQ:TBRG) & Ntt Data (OTCMKTS:NTDTY) Critical Comparison

Ntt Data (OTCMKTS:NTDTY) and TruBridge (NASDAQ:TBRG) are both business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership and dividends.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

88.6% of TruBridge shares are held by institutional investors. 10.7% of TruBridge shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Ntt Data and TruBridge, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Ntt Data	0	0	0	1	4.00
TruBridge	0	2	2	0	2.50

TruBridge has a consensus price target of $21.25, indicating a potential downside of 7.61%. Given TruBridge’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe TruBridge is more favorable than Ntt Data.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Ntt Data and TruBridge”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Ntt Data	$30.46 billion	1.24	$940.20 million	$0.68	39.60
TruBridge	$339.17 million	1.02	-$19.67 million	($1.35)	-17.04

Ntt Data has higher revenue and earnings than TruBridge. TruBridge is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ntt Data, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk and Volatility

Ntt Data has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TruBridge has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Ntt Data and TruBridge’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Ntt Data	3.08%	4.99%	1.88%
TruBridge	-5.86%	0.33%	0.14%

Summary

Ntt Data beats TruBridge on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Ntt Data

NTT DATA Group Corporation provides IT and business services worldwide. It offers cloud, cybersecurity, data and intelligence, salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, and application development and management, as well as 5G services. The company also provides consulting, industry solutions, business process services, and IT modernization and managed services. It serves automotive, healthcare, life sciences, media, banking, and insurance industries. The company was formerly known as NTT DATA Corporation. NTT DATA Group Corporation was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. NTT DATA Group Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation.

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.