Head to Head Comparison: TruBridge (NASDAQ:TBRG) versus AppYea (OTCMKTS:APYP)

AppYea (OTCMKTS:APYP) and TruBridge (NASDAQ:TBRG) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Valuation and Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
AppYea	N/A	N/A	-$1.82 million	N/A	N/A
TruBridge	$337.67 million	0.93	-$44.76 million	($4.09)	-5.13

AppYea has higher earnings, but lower revenue than TruBridge.

Profitability

This table compares AppYea and TruBridge’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
AppYea	N/A	N/A	-269.35%
TruBridge	-17.72%	1.78%	0.78%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

88.6% of TruBridge shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of AppYea shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of TruBridge 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.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for AppYea and TruBridge, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

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

TruBridge has a consensus target price of $14.50, indicating a potential downside of 30.85%. Given TruBridge’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe TruBridge is more favorable than AppYea.

Volatility & Risk

AppYea has a beta of 2.13, meaning that its share price is 113% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TruBridge has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

TruBridge beats AppYea on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About AppYea

AppYea, Inc., a digital health company, develops wearable monitoring solutions to treat sleep apnea and snoring. It develops AppySleep app, a wristband that monitors physiological parameters during sleep; AppySleep, a biofeedback snoring treatment wristband; AppySleep LAB, a smartphone medical application that monitors breathing patterns in the sleep and identify sleep arena episode without direct contact to the user; and AppySleep PRO a wristband for the treatment of sleep arena using biofeedback in combination with AppySleep LAB app. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Gan Yavne, Israel.

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.