Analyzing OBIC Co.,Ltd. (OTCMKTS:OBIIF) and TruBridge (NASDAQ:TBRG)

OBIC Co.,Ltd. (OTCMKTS:OBIIF) and TruBridge (NASDAQ:TBRG) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, dividends and earnings.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for OBIC Co.,Ltd. and TruBridge, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
OBIC Co.,Ltd.	0	0	0	0	0.00
TruBridge	0	2	2	0	2.50

TruBridge has a consensus target price of $14.50, indicating a potential downside of 48.07%. Given TruBridge’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe TruBridge is more favorable than OBIC Co.,Ltd..

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares OBIC Co.,Ltd. and TruBridge”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
OBIC Co.,Ltd.	$772.95 million	16.47	$400.25 million	N/A	N/A
TruBridge	$339.43 million	1.23	-$44.76 million	($4.09)	-6.83

OBIC Co.,Ltd. has higher revenue and earnings than TruBridge.

Profitability

This table compares OBIC Co.,Ltd. and TruBridge’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
OBIC Co.,Ltd.	52.98%	15.52%	13.63%
TruBridge	-17.72%	1.78%	0.78%

Volatility & Risk

OBIC Co.,Ltd. has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TruBridge has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

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

Summary

OBIC Co.,Ltd. beats TruBridge on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About OBIC Co.,Ltd.

OBIC Co.,Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides system integration, system support, office automation, and package software services. It offers system integration services, including developing ERP software products to provide integrated administrative systems comprising personnel, payroll, working condition management, marketing, and production systems, as well as related training courses. The company also provides system support services, including system operation support and maintenance, and hardware maintenance. In addition, it offers office automation services, such as sale of package software, and peripheral equipment and supplies, as well as engages in processing of printed materials. The company was incorporated in 1968 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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.