PodcastOne (NASDAQ:PODC) versus Health Catalyst (NASDAQ:HCAT) Head-To-Head Analysis

PodcastOne (NASDAQ:PODC) and Health Catalyst (NASDAQ:HCAT) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares PodcastOne and Health Catalyst”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
PodcastOne	$45.82 million	0.72	-$14.73 million	($0.74)	-1.86
Health Catalyst	$299.48 million	1.60	-$118.15 million	($1.85)	-4.29

PodcastOne has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Health Catalyst. Health Catalyst is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PodcastOne, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for PodcastOne and Health Catalyst, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
PodcastOne	0	0	3	0	3.00
Health Catalyst	0	3	8	0	2.73

PodcastOne currently has a consensus price target of $4.75, suggesting a potential upside of 244.20%. Health Catalyst has a consensus price target of $11.91, suggesting a potential upside of 49.61%. Given PodcastOne’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe PodcastOne is more favorable than Health Catalyst.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

2.9% of PodcastOne shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.0% of Health Catalyst shares are held by institutional investors. 7.8% of PodcastOne shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Health Catalyst 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.

Profitability

This table compares PodcastOne and Health Catalyst’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
PodcastOne	-34.67%	-96.68%	-62.27%
Health Catalyst	-28.87%	-9.38%	-4.90%

Summary

Health Catalyst beats PodcastOne on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About PodcastOne

PodcastOne, Inc. operates as a podcast platform and publisher. The company offers its content to audiences through podcasting distribution platforms, including its website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and others. It also produces vodcasts, branded podcasts, merchandise, and live events. In addition, the company builds, owns, and operates LaunchPadOne, a self-publishing podcast platform. The company was formerly known as Courtside Group, Inc. and changed its name to PodcastOne, Inc. in September 2023. PodcastOne, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Beverly Hills, California. PodcastOne, Inc. is a subsidiary of LiveOne, Inc.

About Health Catalyst

Health Catalyst, Inc. provides data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations in the United States. It operates in two segments, Technology and Professional Services. The company provides data operating system data platform which provides clients single comprehensive environment to integrate and organize data from their disparate software systems; and analytics applications, a software analytics applications build for data platform to analyze clients face across clinical and quality, population health, and financial and operational use cases. It offers services expertise solutions comprising data and analytics, domain expertise and education, tech-enabled managed, and implementation services; and opportunity analysis and prioritization, data governance, data modeling and analysis, quality and process improvement strategy, cost accounting, data abstraction, and population health strategies. The company was formerly known as HQC Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Health Catalyst, Inc. in March 2017. Health Catalyst, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in South Jordan, Utah.