DarioHealth (NASDAQ:DRIO – Get Free Report) and SOPHiA GENETICS (NASDAQ:SOPH – Get Free Report) are both small-cap healthcare companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and profitability.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
33.4% of DarioHealth shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.6% of SOPHiA GENETICS shares are held by institutional investors. 3.5% of DarioHealth shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.9% of SOPHiA GENETICS shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Volatility and Risk
DarioHealth has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SOPHiA GENETICS has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| DarioHealth | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2.25 |
| SOPHiA GENETICS | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2.40 |
DarioHealth currently has a consensus target price of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 47.71%. SOPHiA GENETICS has a consensus target price of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 22.85%. Given DarioHealth’s higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe DarioHealth is more favorable than SOPHiA GENETICS.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares DarioHealth and SOPHiA GENETICS”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| DarioHealth | $22.36 million | 2.97 | -$41.71 million | ($6.13) | -1.10 |
| SOPHiA GENETICS | $77.27 million | 8.84 | -$79.00 million | ($1.15) | -7.08 |
DarioHealth has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SOPHiA GENETICS. SOPHiA GENETICS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DarioHealth, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares DarioHealth and SOPHiA GENETICS’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| DarioHealth | -169.87% | -54.81% | -33.36% |
| SOPHiA GENETICS | -93.86% | -132.47% | -45.97% |
About DarioHealth
DarioHealth Corp. operates as a digital health company in the United States, Canada, the European Union, Australia, and New Zealand. Its digital therapeutics platform and suite of solutions deliver personalized and dynamic interventions driven by data analytics and one-on-one coaching for diabetes, hypertension, weight management, musculoskeletal pain, and behavioral health. The company offers Dario Evolve, a metabolic solution to address metabolic health needs, such as diabetes, pre-diabetes, hypertension, and weight management; Dario Move, which address most common musculoskeletal conditions; Dario Elevate, a behavioral health solution that optimizes access to evidence-based care; and Dario One, a full suite of chronic condition management solution; and Dario blood glucose monitoring systems. It also provides native devices, such as glucose meter, blood pressure cuff, digital scale, and biofeedback sensor device, as well as live coaching services. The company was formerly known as LabStyle Innovations Corp. and changed its name to DarioHealth Corp. in July 2016. DarioHealth Corp. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in New York, New York.
About SOPHiA GENETICS
SOPHiA GENETICS SA operates as a cloud-native software technology company in the healthcare space. The company offers SOPHiA DDM platform, a cloud-native software platform for analyzing data and generating insights from multimodal data sets and diagnostic modalities. Its SOPHiA DDM platform and related solutions, applications, products, and services are used by hospitals, laboratories, and biopharmaceutical companies through its own sales force as well as distributors and industry collaborators in Switzerland, France, Italy, rest of Europe, North America, the United States, Latin America, and the Asia-pacific. SOPHiA GENETICS SA was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Rolle, Switzerland.
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