Critical Contrast: Privia Health Group (NASDAQ:PRVA) vs. Healthcare Triangle (NASDAQ:HCTI)

Privia Health Group (NASDAQ:PRVA) and Healthcare Triangle (NASDAQ:HCTI) are both medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and risk.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Privia Health Group and Healthcare Triangle”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Privia Health Group	$1.74 billion	1.77	$14.39 million	$0.11	227.09
Healthcare Triangle	$11.70 million	1.46	-$5.97 million	($155.58)	-0.02

Privia Health Group has higher revenue and earnings than Healthcare Triangle. Healthcare Triangle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Privia Health Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility & Risk

Privia Health Group has a beta of 0.83, suggesting that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Healthcare Triangle has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Privia Health Group and Healthcare Triangle’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Privia Health Group	0.78%	2.13%	1.25%
Healthcare Triangle	-47.74%	N/A	-68.50%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

94.5% of Privia Health Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.3% of Healthcare Triangle shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.7% of Privia Health Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Healthcare Triangle shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Privia Health Group and Healthcare Triangle, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Privia Health Group	0	2	11	1	2.93
Healthcare Triangle	0	0	0	0	0.00

Privia Health Group presently has a consensus price target of $28.58, indicating a potential upside of 14.42%. Given Privia Health Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Privia Health Group is more favorable than Healthcare Triangle.

Summary

Privia Health Group beats Healthcare Triangle on 14 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Privia Health Group

Privia Health Group, Inc. operates as a national physician-enablement company in the United States. The company collaborates with medical groups, health plans, and health systems to optimize physician practices, enhance patient experiences, and reward doctors for delivering care in-person and virtual settings. It offers technology and population health tools to enhance independent providers' workflows; management services organization that enable providers to focus on their patients by reducing administrative work; single-TIN medical group that facilitates payer negotiation, clinical integration and alignment of financial incentives; accountable care organization, which engage patients, reduce inappropriate utilization, and enhance coordination and patient quality metrics to drive value-based care; and network for purchasers and payers that enable providers to connect with new patient populations and create custom contracts. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

About Healthcare Triangle

Healthcare Triangle, Inc., a healthcare information technology company, focuses on developing solutions in the sectors of cloud services, data science, and professional and managed services for the electronic health record, and healthcare and life sciences industry. It provides a suite of software, solutions, platforms, and services that enables healthcare and pharma organizations to deliver personalized healthcare, precision medicine, advances in drug discovery, development and efficacy, collaborative research and development, respond to evidence, and accelerate their digital transformation. The company’s software platforms include CloudEz, an enterprise multi-cloud transformation and management platform that enables customers to manage their cloud infrastructure in private, hybrid, and public cloud infrastructures; and DataEz, a cloud-based data analytics and data science platform for the data analytics and data science requirements of life sciences/pharmaceutical and healthcare provider organizations. It also provides Readabl.AI, a Software-as-a-Service solution that uses public cloud artificial intelligence and machine learning to recognize and extract healthcare information from documents, faxes, and narrative reports. In addition, the company offers cloud IT services; and healthcare IT services, such as electronic health records and software implementation, optimization, and extension to community partners, as well as application managed services, and backup and disaster recovery on public cloud. It primarily serves healthcare delivery organizations, healthcare insurance companies, pharmaceutical and life sciences, biotech companies, and medical device manufacturers. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Pleasanton, California. Healthcare Triangle, Inc. is a subsidiary of SecureKloud Technologies, Inc.