Contrasting Phreesia (NYSE:PHR) & PPJ Healthcare Enterprises (OTCMKTS:PPJE)

Phreesia (NYSE:PHR) and PPJ Healthcare Enterprises (OTCMKTS:PPJE) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and dividends.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

92.1% of Phreesia shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.8% of Phreesia shares are owned by company 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.

Profitability

This table compares Phreesia and PPJ Healthcare Enterprises’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Phreesia	-20.43%	-32.78%	-22.37%
PPJ Healthcare Enterprises	-8.43%	N/A	N/A

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Phreesia and PPJ Healthcare Enterprises, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Phreesia	0	0	13	0	3.00
PPJ Healthcare Enterprises	0	0	0	0	0.00

Phreesia presently has a consensus target price of $31.15, suggesting a potential upside of 31.50%. Given Phreesia’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Phreesia is more favorable than PPJ Healthcare Enterprises.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Phreesia and PPJ Healthcare Enterprises”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Phreesia	$405.14 million	3.40	-$136.88 million	($1.47)	-16.12
PPJ Healthcare Enterprises	$710,000.00	0.78	$80,000.00	N/A	N/A

PPJ Healthcare Enterprises has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Phreesia.

Volatility and Risk

Phreesia has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PPJ Healthcare Enterprises has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Phreesia beats PPJ Healthcare Enterprises on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Phreesia

Phreesia, Inc. provides an integrated SaaS-based software and payment platform for the healthcare industry in the United States and Canada. The company offers access solutions that offers appointment scheduling system for online appointments, reminders, and referral tracking management; registration solution to automate patient self-registration; revenue cycle solution, which offer insurance-verification processes, point-of-sale payments applications, post-visit payment collection, and flexible payment options; and network connect solution to deliver clinically relevant content to patients. The company deploys its platform in a range of modalities, such as Phreesia Mobile, a patients' mobile device; Phreesia Dashboard, a web-based dashboard for healthcare services clients; PhreesiaPads, a self-service intake tablets; and Arrivals Kiosks, an on-site kiosks. It serves patients; single-specialty practices, multi-specialty groups, and health systems; and pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology companies. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Wilmington, Delaware.

About PPJ Healthcare Enterprises

PPJ Healthcare Enterprises, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides automated healthcare reimbursement cycle, online health information digital-systems, and practice information management digital-system software to health care providers and general businesses worldwide. The company offers the Automated Biller, a medical billing system that allows physicians to bill their medical insurance claims at the point of service without data entry, coding, or billing personnel. It also provides billing, specialty medical billing, collection, and workers comp lien collection services for health care providers in the areas of pain management, anesthesia and surgery centers practices, and various specialties of medicine. The company was formerly known as PPJ Enterprise and changed its name to PPJ Healthcare Enterprises, Inc. in October 2014. PPJ Healthcare Enterprises, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada.