Analyzing Semantix (NASDAQ:STIX) and TruBridge (NASDAQ:TBRG)

TruBridge (NASDAQ:TBRG) and Semantix (NASDAQ:STIX) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, profitability, risk and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations for TruBridge and Semantix, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

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

TruBridge presently has a consensus target price of $14.50, suggesting a potential downside of 20.29%. Given TruBridge’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe TruBridge is more favorable than Semantix.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares TruBridge and Semantix”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
TruBridge	$337.67 million	0.80	-$44.76 million	($4.09)	-4.45
Semantix	$264.23 million	0.00	-$63.61 million	($0.81)	0.00

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

Institutional & Insider Ownership

88.6% of TruBridge shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.1% of Semantix shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.6% of TruBridge shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 35.5% of Semantix shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk and Volatility

TruBridge has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Semantix has a beta of -0.37, indicating that its share price is 137% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares TruBridge and Semantix’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%
Semantix	-69.49%	-45.45%	-26.98%

Summary

TruBridge beats Semantix on 11 of the 14 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 Semantix

Semantix, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides end-to-end proprietary Software as a Service (SaaS) data platform in Latin America and the United States. The company offers SDP, a multi-cloud SaaS data platform that provides data integration, data operations, machine learning operations, data governance, data sharing, and data visualization for financial institutions; healthcare plans operators, health insurance brokers, hospitals, clinics, and imaging and diagnostics facilities; and retailers. It also sells third-party software licenses to the finance, retail, telecommunications, healthcare, industrials, and other sectors. In addition, the company offers artificial intelligence and data analytics services, including consulting, cloud monitoring, data integration, data science, and data engineering. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.