Critical Survey: TruBridge (TBRG) vs. Its Peers

TruBridge (NASDAQ:TBRG) is one of 69 publicly-traded companies in the “Custom computer programming services” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare TruBridge to similar businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, earnings and dividends.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

88.6% of TruBridge shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.9% of shares of all “Custom computer programming services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 3.6% of TruBridge shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.6% of shares of all “Custom computer programming services” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for TruBridge and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
TruBridge	0	0	2	0	3.00
TruBridge Competitors	259	1780	2857	95	2.56

TruBridge presently has a consensus target price of $18.50, indicating a potential upside of 116.88%. As a group, “Custom computer programming services” companies have a potential upside of 27.55%. Given TruBridge’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe TruBridge is more favorable than its competitors.

Profitability

This table compares TruBridge and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
TruBridge	-13.49%	10.33%	5.23%
TruBridge Competitors	-52.18%	-21.97%	-6.27%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares TruBridge and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
TruBridge	$339.43 million	-$44.76 million	-2.71
TruBridge Competitors	$2.12 billion	$166.20 million	13.18

TruBridge’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than TruBridge. TruBridge is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Risk and Volatility

TruBridge has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TruBridge’s competitors have a beta of 2.26, suggesting that their average stock price is 126% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

TruBridge beats its competitors on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

TruBridge Company Profile

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.