Head-To-Head Survey: Guardian Pharmacy Services (NYSE:GRDN) vs. Nutex Health (NASDAQ:NUTX)

Guardian Pharmacy Services (NYSE:GRDN) and Nutex Health (NASDAQ:NUTX) are both small-cap healthcare companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Guardian Pharmacy Services and Nutex Health, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Guardian Pharmacy Services	0	2	7	0	2.78
Nutex Health	0	2	3	0	2.60

Guardian Pharmacy Services presently has a consensus target price of $42.83, suggesting a potential upside of 8.64%. Nutex Health has a consensus target price of $243.33, suggesting a potential upside of 65.05%. Given Nutex Health’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Nutex Health is more favorable than Guardian Pharmacy Services.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Guardian Pharmacy Services and Nutex Health”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Guardian Pharmacy Services	$1.45 billion	1.35	$49.22 million	$0.83	47.50
Nutex Health	$875.26 million	1.16	$70.79 million	$12.94	11.39

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

Risk & Volatility

Guardian Pharmacy Services has a beta of 0.05, indicating that its stock price is 95% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nutex Health has a beta of 0.21, indicating that its stock price is 79% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Guardian Pharmacy Services and Nutex Health’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Guardian Pharmacy Services	3.64%	30.72%	15.99%
Nutex Health	10.95%	23.50%	10.47%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

5.3% of Nutex Health shares are held by institutional investors. 33.0% of Guardian Pharmacy Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 44.7% of Nutex Health shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

About Guardian Pharmacy Services

Guardian Pharmacy Services, Inc., a pharmacy service company, provides a suite of technology-enabled services designed to help residents of long-term health care facilities (LTCFs) in the United States. Its individualized clinical, drug dispensing, and administration capabilities are used to serve the needs of residents in lower acuity LTCFs, such as assisted living facilities and behavioral health facilities and group homes. The company’s Guardian Compass includes dashboards created using data from its data warehouse to help its local pharmacies plan, track, and optimize their business operations; and GuardianShield Programs for LTCFs. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

About Nutex Health

Nutex Health Inc. operates as a physician-led, healthcare services, and operations company. It operates through three segments: Hospital, Population Health Management (PHM), and Real Estate. The PHM segment establishes and operates independent physician associations; and offers a cloud-based platform for healthcare organizations to provide value-based care and population health management. The Real Estate segment owns and owns and leases land and hospital building. The Hospital segment develops and operates a network of micro-hospitals, specialty hospitals and hospital outpatient departments which offers 24/7 care. It also provides operational and managerial services, including management, billing, collections, human resources and recruiting, legal, accounting, and marketing. In addition, the company offers healthcare services, including emergency room care, inpatient care, and behavioral health, as well as onsite imaging, such as CT scan, X-ray, MRI, ultrasound, etc.; certified and accredited laboratories; and onsite inpatient pharmacies. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Houston, Texas.