Critical Contrast: TruBridge (NASDAQ:TBRG) vs. OBIC Co.,Ltd. (OTCMKTS:OBIIF)

TruBridge (NASDAQ:TBRG) and OBIC Co.,Ltd. (OTCMKTS:OBIIF) are both medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for TruBridge and OBIC Co.,Ltd., as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
TruBridge	0	2	2	0	2.50
OBIC Co.,Ltd.	0	0	0	0	0.00

TruBridge presently has a consensus target price of $14.50, indicating a potential downside of 48.07%. Given TruBridge’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe TruBridge is more favorable than OBIC Co.,Ltd..

Volatility and Risk

TruBridge has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OBIC Co.,Ltd. has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares TruBridge and OBIC Co.,Ltd.”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
TruBridge	$339.43 million	1.23	-$44.76 million	($4.09)	-6.83
OBIC Co.,Ltd.	$772.95 million	16.47	$400.25 million	N/A	N/A

OBIC Co.,Ltd. has higher revenue and earnings than TruBridge.

Profitability

This table compares TruBridge and OBIC Co.,Ltd.’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
TruBridge	-17.72%	1.78%	0.78%
OBIC Co.,Ltd.	52.98%	15.52%	13.63%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

88.6% of TruBridge shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of TruBridge shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

OBIC Co.,Ltd. beats TruBridge on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About OBIC Co.,Ltd.

OBIC Co.,Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides system integration, system support, office automation, and package software services. It offers system integration services, including developing ERP software products to provide integrated administrative systems comprising personnel, payroll, working condition management, marketing, and production systems, as well as related training courses. The company also provides system support services, including system operation support and maintenance, and hardware maintenance. In addition, it offers office automation services, such as sale of package software, and peripheral equipment and supplies, as well as engages in processing of printed materials. The company was incorporated in 1968 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.