Astrana Health (NASDAQ:ASTH) and Collective Audience (NASDAQ:CAUD) Head to Head Analysis

Collective Audience (NASDAQ:CAUD) and Astrana Health (NASDAQ:ASTH) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, valuation, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.

Profitability

This table compares Collective Audience and Astrana Health’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Collective Audience	N/A	N/A	N/A
Astrana Health	4.30%	10.71%	6.10%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings for Collective Audience and Astrana Health, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Collective Audience	0	0	0	0	N/A
Astrana Health	0	0	4	1	3.20

Astrana Health has a consensus target price of $59.00, suggesting a potential upside of 5.00%. Given Astrana Health’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Astrana Health is more favorable than Collective Audience.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Collective Audience and Astrana Health”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Collective Audience	$12.14 million	0.86	-$4.57 million	N/A	N/A
Astrana Health	$1.59 billion	1.98	$60.72 million	$1.32	42.57

Astrana Health has higher revenue and earnings than Collective Audience.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

60.8% of Collective Audience shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.8% of Astrana Health shares are held by institutional investors. 58.0% of Collective Audience shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of Astrana Health shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk and Volatility

Collective Audience has a beta of -1.55, meaning that its stock price is 255% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Astrana Health has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Astrana Health beats Collective Audience on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Collective Audience

Collective Audience, Inc. provides e-commerce and digital consumer acquisition solutions in the United States. Its digital marketing business enables brands and agencies to advertise across digital media and connected TV platforms. The company is headquartered in New York, New York. Collective Audience, Inc. is a subsidiary of Logiq, Inc.

About Astrana Health

Astrana Health, Inc., Inc., a physician-centric technology-powered healthcare management company, provides medical care services in the United States. It operates through three segments: Care Partners, Care Delivery, and Care Enablement. The company is leveraging its proprietary population health management and healthcare delivery platform, operates an integrated, value-based healthcare model which empowers the providers in its network to deliver care to its patients. It offers care coordination services to patients, families, primary care physicians, specialists, acute care hospitals, alternative sites of inpatient care, physician groups, and health plans. The company's physician network consists of primary care physicians, specialist physicians and extenders, and hospitalists. It serves patients, primarily covered by private or public insurance, such as Medicare, Medicaid, and health maintenance organization plans; and non-insured patients. The company was formerly known as Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Astrana Health, Inc. in February 2024. Astrana Health, Inc. was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in Alhambra, California.