Health Catalyst (NASDAQ:HCAT – Get Free Report) and Reliq Health Technologies (OTCMKTS:RQHTF – Get Free Report) are both healthcare companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends and profitability.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Health Catalyst and Reliq Health Technologies, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Health Catalyst | 1 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2.17 |
| Reliq Health Technologies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Health Catalyst currently has a consensus price target of $2.45, indicating a potential upside of 54.09%. Given Health Catalyst’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Health Catalyst is more favorable than Reliq Health Technologies.
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Health Catalyst | $311.14 million | 0.38 | -$177.97 million | ($3.68) | -0.43 |
| Reliq Health Technologies | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Reliq Health Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Health Catalyst.
Profitability
This table compares Health Catalyst and Reliq Health Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Health Catalyst | -90.61% | -1.83% | -0.80% |
| Reliq Health Technologies | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Insider and Institutional Ownership
85.0% of Health Catalyst shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.0% of Reliq Health Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 19.4% of Health Catalyst shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Health Catalyst beats Reliq Health Technologies on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Health Catalyst
Health Catalyst, Inc. provides data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations in the United States. It operates in two segments, Technology and Professional Services. The company provides data operating system data platform which provides clients single comprehensive environment to integrate and organize data from their disparate software systems; and analytics applications, a software analytics applications build for data platform to analyze clients face across clinical and quality, population health, and financial and operational use cases. It offers services expertise solutions comprising data and analytics, domain expertise and education, tech-enabled managed, and implementation services; and opportunity analysis and prioritization, data governance, data modeling and analysis, quality and process improvement strategy, cost accounting, data abstraction, and population health strategies. The company was formerly known as HQC Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Health Catalyst, Inc. in March 2017. Health Catalyst, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in South Jordan, Utah.
About Reliq Health Technologies
Reliq Health Technologies Inc., a healthcare technology company, develops secure telemedicine and virtual care solutions for the healthcare market. It offers iUGO Care platform, a software as a solution that allows complex patients to receive care in the home. The company was formerly known as Moseda Technologies Inc. and changed its name to Reliq Health Technologies Inc. in May 2016. Reliq Health Technologies Inc. was incorporated in 2005 is headquartered in Hamilton, Canada.
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