SpringBig (NASDAQ:SBIG – Get Free Report) and TruBridge (NASDAQ:TBRG – Get Free Report) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, dividends and earnings.
Profitability
This table compares SpringBig and TruBridge’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| SpringBig | -23.01% | N/A | -94.69% |
| TruBridge | -15.93% | 6.57% | 3.03% |
Risk and Volatility
SpringBig has a beta of 2.73, suggesting that its stock price is 173% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TruBridge has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| SpringBig | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 |
| TruBridge | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3.00 |
SpringBig presently has a consensus price target of $1.00, indicating a potential upside of 1,150.00%. TruBridge has a consensus price target of $13.50, indicating a potential upside of 3.85%. Given SpringBig’s higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe SpringBig is more favorable than TruBridge.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares SpringBig and TruBridge”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| SpringBig | $28.06 million | 0.13 | -$10.23 million | ($0.14) | -0.57 |
| TruBridge | $336.56 million | 0.58 | -$44.76 million | ($3.53) | -3.68 |
SpringBig has higher earnings, but lower revenue than TruBridge. TruBridge is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SpringBig, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
30.9% of SpringBig shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.6% of TruBridge shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.6% of SpringBig shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of TruBridge shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
TruBridge beats SpringBig on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About SpringBig
SpringBig Holdings, Inc. develops and operates a software platform that provides marketing and customer engagement services to cannabis dispensaries and brands in the United States and Canada. Its platform offers customer loyalty and marketing automation solutions. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.
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.
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