Guardian Pharmacy Services (NYSE:GRDN) versus Nutex Health (NASDAQ:NUTX) Head to Head Comparison

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

Institutional and Insider Ownership

5.3% of Nutex Health shares are owned by institutional investors. 44.7% of Nutex Health shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 33.0% of Guardian Pharmacy Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk and Volatility

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Nutex Health and Guardian Pharmacy Services, as reported by MarketBeat.

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

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

Profitability

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

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

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Nutex Health and Guardian Pharmacy Services”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

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

Nutex Health has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.

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.

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.