Phreesia (NYSE:PHR) versus PPJ Healthcare Enterprises (OTCMKTS:PPJE) Head-To-Head Review

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

Volatility and Risk

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

Analyst Recommendations

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

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

Phreesia has a consensus target price of $31.15, suggesting a potential upside of 30.07%. Given Phreesia’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Phreesia is more favorable than PPJ Healthcare Enterprises.

Profitability

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

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

Insider and Institutional 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 hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
PPJ Healthcare Enterprises	$710,000.00	0.78	$80,000.00	N/A	N/A
Phreesia	$405.14 million	3.44	-$136.88 million	($1.47)	-16.29

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

Summary

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

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.

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.