Analyzing TruBridge (NASDAQ:TBRG) and Rigetti Computing (NASDAQ:RGTI)

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

Institutional and Insider Ownership

88.6% of TruBridge shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.4% of Rigetti Computing shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of TruBridge shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares TruBridge and Rigetti Computing”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
TruBridge	$339.43 million	0.78	-$44.76 million	($4.09)	-4.34
Rigetti Computing	$12.01 million	38.43	-$75.11 million	($0.38)	-6.32

TruBridge has higher revenue and earnings than Rigetti Computing. Rigetti Computing is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TruBridge, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility & Risk

TruBridge has a beta of 0.61, meaning that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rigetti Computing has a beta of 2.13, meaning that its stock price is 113% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for TruBridge and Rigetti Computing, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
TruBridge	0	2	2	0	2.50
Rigetti Computing	0	0	4	0	3.00

TruBridge presently has a consensus target price of $14.50, indicating a potential downside of 18.31%. Rigetti Computing has a consensus target price of $3.00, indicating a potential upside of 25.00%. Given Rigetti Computing’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Rigetti Computing is more favorable than TruBridge.

Profitability

This table compares TruBridge and Rigetti Computing’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%
Rigetti Computing	-509.58%	-51.56%	-37.78%

Summary

TruBridge beats Rigetti Computing on 8 of the 14 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 Rigetti Computing

Rigetti Computing, Inc., through its subsidiaries, builds quantum computers and the superconducting quantum processors. The company offers cloud in a form of quantum processing unit, such as 9-qubit chip and Ankaa-2 system under the Novera brand name; and sells access to its quantum computers through quantum computing as a service. It also provides quantum cloud services that provides various range of support in programming, public or private clouds integration, and connectivity, as well as quantum operating system software that supports both public and private cloud architectures. In addition, the company offers professional services, such as algorithm development, benchmarking, quantum application programming, and software development. The company serves commercial enterprises, government organizations, and international government entities. It has operations in the United States and the United Kingdom. Rigetti Computing, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California.