HealthStream (NASDAQ:HSTM – Get Free Report) and Viant Technology (NASDAQ:DSP – Get Free Report) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and dividends.
Profitability
This table compares HealthStream and Viant Technology’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| HealthStream | 6.84% | 5.67% | 3.91% |
| Viant Technology | 0.47% | -5.67% | -3.78% |
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares HealthStream and Viant Technology”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| HealthStream | $279.06 million | 3.57 | $15.21 million | $0.65 | 50.45 |
| Viant Technology | $222.93 million | 6.17 | -$3.44 million | $0.06 | 365.06 |
Insider & Institutional Ownership
69.6% of HealthStream shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.4% of Viant Technology shares are held by institutional investors. 20.6% of HealthStream shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 28.8% of Viant Technology shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for HealthStream and Viant Technology, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| HealthStream | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3.00 |
| Viant Technology | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3.00 |
HealthStream presently has a consensus target price of $31.50, suggesting a potential downside of 3.93%. Viant Technology has a consensus target price of $20.29, suggesting a potential downside of 7.37%. Given HealthStream’s higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe HealthStream is more favorable than Viant Technology.
Volatility and Risk
HealthStream has a beta of 0.39, suggesting that its stock price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Viant Technology has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Summary
HealthStream beats Viant Technology on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About HealthStream
HealthStream, Inc. provides Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) based applications for healthcare organizations in the United States. The company’s solutions help healthcare organizations in meeting their ongoing clinical development, talent management, training, education, assessment, competency management, safety and compliance, and scheduling, as well as provider credentialing, privileging, and enrollment needs. It offers hStream, a technology platform that powers a range of healthcare workforce solutions. The company provides its solutions to customers across a range of entities within the healthcare industry, including private, not-for-profit, and government entities, as well as pharmaceutical and medical device companies through its direct sales teams. The company was incorporated in 1990 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.
About Viant Technology
Viant Technology Inc. operates as an advertising technology company. It provides Household ID, a people-based innovation that combines digital and personal identifiers into a normalized household profile; AI Bid Optimizer, solution that uses AI to analyze historical bid opportunities to predict the lowest media cost for desired advertisement; and Viant Data Platform, which offers marketers control over their own data with actionable insights into their marketing initiatives within a single platform. The company also offers Holistic, an omnichannel DSP for marketers and their agencies to manage omnichannel campaigns and access metrics from each channel to inform decisions in other channels; Viant Identity Graph, which reduces or eliminates the need for cookies by enabling matching of people-based identifiers that anchor digital identifiers that allows marketers to reach targeted consumers in a privacy-conscious manner; and Direct Access, a path optimization program. In addition, it provides campaign analysis and data intelligence tool that empowers customers with differentiated insights, including conversion lift, multi-touch attribution, foot-traffic data reports, digital-out-of-home lift, sales reporting, and ROAS analytics; and self-service platform that provides customers with transparency and control over their advertising campaigns and underlying data infrastructure. The company sells its platform through a direct sales team focused on business development in various markets. It serves purchasers of programmatic advertising inventory; and large, independent, and mid-market advertising agencies, as well as marketers. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.
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