Head to Head Comparison: Health Catalyst (NASDAQ:HCAT) & Lucas GC (NASDAQ:LGCL)

Health Catalyst (NASDAQ:HCAT) and Lucas GC (NASDAQ:LGCL) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Health Catalyst and Lucas GC”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Health Catalyst	$299.48 million	1.68	-$118.15 million	($1.85)	-4.61
Lucas GC	$1.26 billion	0.08	$10.94 million	N/A	N/A

Lucas GC has higher revenue and earnings than Health Catalyst.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Health Catalyst	-28.87%	-9.38%	-4.90%
Lucas GC	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Health Catalyst and Lucas GC, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Health Catalyst	0	4	8	0	2.67
Lucas GC	0	0	0	0	N/A

Health Catalyst currently has a consensus target price of $11.58, indicating a potential upside of 35.95%. Given Health Catalyst’s higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Health Catalyst is more favorable than Lucas GC.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

85.0% of Health Catalyst shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Health Catalyst shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

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.

About Lucas GC

Lucas GC Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides online agent-centric human capital management services based on platform-as-a-service (PaaS) in the People's Republic of China. Its Star Career and Columbus platforms enables registered users to receive customized job recommendations and work as talent scouts to source suitable candidates for its corporate customers through their social network, as well as receive trainings and other value-added services. The company's platform provides permanent and flexible employment recruitment services; outsourcing services primarily for technology-related projects to design, develop, and deliver the projects within budget and on time with acceptable quality; information technology services to generate sales leads for its corporate customers; and training services comprising career-related certification programs. In addition, it engages in the media and entertainment business; and provides management consulting services. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Beijing, China. Lucas GC Limited operates as a subsidiary of HTL Lucky Holding Limited.