Critical Contrast: TruBridge (NASDAQ:TBRG) vs. Symbolic Logic (NASDAQ:EVOL)

TruBridge (NASDAQ:TBRG) and Symbolic Logic (NASDAQ:EVOL) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability, risk and valuation.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for TruBridge and Symbolic Logic, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

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

TruBridge currently has a consensus price target of $21.25, indicating a potential downside of 25.52%. Given TruBridge’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe TruBridge is more favorable than Symbolic Logic.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

88.6% of TruBridge shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of TruBridge shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Symbolic Logic shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares TruBridge and Symbolic Logic”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
TruBridge	$342.65 million	1.24	-$44.76 million	($1.55)	-18.41
Symbolic Logic	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Symbolic Logic has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TruBridge.

Risk and Volatility

TruBridge has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Symbolic Logic has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares TruBridge and Symbolic Logic’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%
Symbolic Logic	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

TruBridge beats Symbolic Logic on 8 of the 10 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 Symbolic Logic

Symbolic Logic, Inc., a research and development organization, focuses on developing proprietary algorithms that model and predict behaviour of dynamic systems. It is also developing a set of tools and technologies for applying symbolic content to physical objects to catalog to track real-world objects. The company was formerly known as Evolving Systems, Inc. and changed its name to Symbolic Logic, Inc. in April 2022. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado. Symbolic Logic, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of CCUR Holdings, Inc.