PPJ Healthcare Enterprises (OTCMKTS:PPJE – Get Free Report) and Research Solutions (NASDAQ:RSSS – Get Free Report) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
33.6% of Research Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.9% of Research Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares PPJ Healthcare Enterprises and Research Solutions”s top-line 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 | 0.00 | $80,000.00 | N/A | N/A |
| Research Solutions | $44.62 million | 1.90 | -$3.79 million | ($0.14) | -18.57 |
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings for PPJ Healthcare Enterprises and Research Solutions, 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 |
| Research Solutions | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3.00 |
Research Solutions has a consensus target price of $5.50, suggesting a potential upside of 111.54%. Given Research Solutions’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Research Solutions is more favorable than PPJ Healthcare Enterprises.
Profitability
This table compares PPJ Healthcare Enterprises and Research Solutions’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| PPJ Healthcare Enterprises | 4.15% | N/A | N/A |
| Research Solutions | -8.49% | -4.71% | -1.51% |
Risk and Volatility
PPJ Healthcare Enterprises has a beta of 0.63, meaning that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Research Solutions has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Research Solutions beats PPJ Healthcare Enterprises on 6 of the 11 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 Research Solutions
Research Solutions, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides research cloud-based software-as-a-service software platform and related services to corporate, academic, government and individual researchers in the United States, Europe, and internationally. It provides Discover platform that facilitates search discovery across virtually all scientific, technical, and medical (STM) articles available, including free basic search solutions and advanced search tools, which include the Resolute.ai and scite.ai products, a tools that allows for searching and identifying relevant research and find insights in other datasets adjacent to STM content, such as clinical trial, patent, life science and medtech regulatory information, competitor and technology landscape insights in addition to searching the customer’s internal datasets. The company also offers Article Galaxy, a solution that allows research organizations to load their entitlements, consisting of subscriptions, discount or token packages, and their existing library of articles. In addition, it provides Manage platform, a references solution that allows users to access the article inside the platform including setting up personal folders or team folders and allows researchers to markup and take notes on the articles in a supported browser on a desktop or tablet. Further, the company’s platform facilitates the sale of published STM content sold as individual articles. The company was formerly known as Derycz Scientific, Inc. and changed its name to Research Solutions, Inc. in March 2013. Research Solutions, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Henderson, Nevada.
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