Contrasting TruBridge (NASDAQ:TBRG) and XTI Aerospace (NASDAQ:XTIA)

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

Volatility & Risk

TruBridge has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, XTI Aerospace has a beta of 0.29, suggesting that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares TruBridge and XTI Aerospace’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
TruBridge	-15.93%	6.57%	3.03%
XTI Aerospace	-982.73%	-809.13%	-137.81%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares TruBridge and XTI Aerospace”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
TruBridge	$336.56 million	0.53	-$44.76 million	($3.53)	-3.38
XTI Aerospace	$4.56 million	1.47	-$45.95 million	N/A	N/A

TruBridge has higher revenue and earnings than XTI Aerospace.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

88.6% of TruBridge shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.7% of XTI Aerospace shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of TruBridge shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of XTI Aerospace shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for TruBridge and XTI Aerospace, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
TruBridge	0	0	2	0	3.00
XTI Aerospace	0	0	0	0	N/A

TruBridge presently has a consensus price target of $13.50, indicating a potential upside of 13.07%. Given TruBridge’s higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe TruBridge is more favorable than XTI Aerospace.

Summary

TruBridge beats XTI Aerospace on 10 of the 11 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 XTI Aerospace

XTI Aircraft Company manufactures vertical takeoff airplanes. The company provides TriFan 600, which lifts off vertically. XTI Aircraft Company was formerly known as AVX Aircraft Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to XTI Aircraft Company in March 2015. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Englewood, Colorado.