Analyzing Health Catalyst (NASDAQ:HCAT) & PPJ Enterprise (OTCMKTS:PPJE)

PPJ Enterprise (OTCMKTS:PPJE) and Health Catalyst (NASDAQ:HCAT) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.

Profitability

This table compares PPJ Enterprise and Health Catalyst’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
PPJ Enterprise	N/A	N/A	N/A
Health Catalyst	-23.34%	-6.14%	-2.74%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

85.0% of Health Catalyst shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Health Catalyst shares are held by 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.

Risk and Volatility

PPJ Enterprise has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Health Catalyst has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations for PPJ Enterprise and Health Catalyst, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
PPJ Enterprise	0	0	0	0	0.00
Health Catalyst	0	4	7	0	2.64

Health Catalyst has a consensus target price of $8.00, indicating a potential upside of 95.65%. Given Health Catalyst’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Health Catalyst is more favorable than PPJ Enterprise.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares PPJ Enterprise and Health Catalyst”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
PPJ Enterprise	$670,000.00	1.33	$10,000.00	N/A	N/A
Health Catalyst	$306.58 million	0.93	-$69.50 million	($1.15)	-3.56

PPJ Enterprise has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Health Catalyst.

Summary

Health Catalyst beats PPJ Enterprise on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About PPJ Enterprise

PPJ Healthcare Enterprises, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides automated healthcare reimbursement cycle, online health information digital-systems, and practice information management digital-system software to health care providers and general businesses worldwide. The company offers the Automated Biller, a medical billing system that allows physicians to bill their medical insurance claims at the point of service without data entry, coding, or billing personnel. It also provides billing, specialty medical billing, collection, and workers comp lien collection services for health care providers in the areas of pain management, anesthesia and surgery centers practices, and various specialties of medicine. The company was formerly known as PPJ Enterprise and changed its name to PPJ Healthcare Enterprises, Inc. in October 2014. PPJ Healthcare Enterprises, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada.

About Health Catalyst

Health Catalyst, Inc. provides data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations in the United States. It operates in two segments, Technology and Professional Services. The company provides data operating system data platform which provides clients single comprehensive environment to integrate and organize data from their disparate software systems; and analytics applications, a software analytics applications build for data platform to analyze clients face across clinical and quality, population health, and financial and operational use cases. It offers services expertise solutions comprising data and analytics, domain expertise and education, tech-enabled managed, and implementation services; and opportunity analysis and prioritization, data governance, data modeling and analysis, quality and process improvement strategy, cost accounting, data abstraction, and population health strategies. The company was formerly known as HQC Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Health Catalyst, Inc. in March 2017. Health Catalyst, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in South Jordan, Utah.