Head-To-Head Contrast: PPJ Healthcare Enterprises (OTCMKTS:PPJE) and Conduent (NASDAQ:CNDT)

PPJ Healthcare Enterprises (OTCMKTS:PPJE) and Conduent (NASDAQ:CNDT) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, valuation, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares PPJ Healthcare Enterprises and Conduent”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
PPJ Healthcare Enterprises	$710,000.00	0.78	$80,000.00	N/A	N/A
Conduent	$3.51 billion	0.18	-$296.00 million	$2.27	1.75

PPJ Healthcare Enterprises has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Conduent.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings for PPJ Healthcare Enterprises and Conduent, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
PPJ Healthcare Enterprises	0	0	0	0	0.00
Conduent	0	0	1	0	3.00

Conduent has a consensus target price of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 126.13%. Given Conduent’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Conduent is more favorable than PPJ Healthcare Enterprises.

Profitability

This table compares PPJ Healthcare Enterprises and Conduent’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
PPJ Healthcare Enterprises	-8.43%	N/A	N/A
Conduent	12.65%	-7.94%	-1.99%

Risk and Volatility

PPJ Healthcare Enterprises has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Conduent has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

77.3% of Conduent shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Conduent shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Conduent beats PPJ Healthcare Enterprises on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About PPJ Healthcare Enterprises

PPJ Healthcare Enterprises, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides automated healthcare reimbursement cycle, online health information digital-systems, and practice information management digital-system software to health care providers and general businesses worldwide. The company offers the Automated Biller, a medical billing system that allows physicians to bill their medical insurance claims at the point of service without data entry, coding, or billing personnel. It also provides billing, specialty medical billing, collection, and workers comp lien collection services for health care providers in the areas of pain management, anesthesia and surgery centers practices, and various specialties of medicine. The company was formerly known as PPJ Enterprise and changed its name to PPJ Healthcare Enterprises, Inc. in October 2014. PPJ Healthcare Enterprises, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada.

About Conduent

Conduent Incorporated provides digital business solutions and services for the commercial, government, and transportation spectrum in the United States, Europe, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Commercial, Government Services, and Transportation. The Commercial segment offers business process services and customized solutions to clients in various industries; and customer experience management, business operations, healthcare claims and administration, and human capital solutions. The Government segment provides government-centric business process services to the United States federal, state, local, and foreign governments for public assistance, program administration, transaction processing, and payment services; and digital payments, child support payments, government healthcare, and eligibility and enrollment solutions. The Transportation segment offers systems, support, and revenue-generating solutions to government transportation agency clients; and public safety, mobility, and digital payment solutions. This segment also provides electronic tolling, urban congestion management, and mileage-based user solutions; transit solutions; citation and permit administration, parking enforcement, and curbside demand management solutions; and computer-aided dispatch/automatic vehicle location solutions. Conduent Incorporated was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey.