Head to Head Review: Omnicell (NASDAQ:OMCL) and HeartBeam (NASDAQ:BEAT)

HeartBeam (NASDAQ:BEAT) and Omnicell (NASDAQ:OMCL) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

7.8% of HeartBeam shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.7% of Omnicell shares are held by institutional investors. 17.9% of HeartBeam shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Omnicell shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares HeartBeam and Omnicell”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
HeartBeam	N/A	N/A	-$21.01 million	($0.56)	-1.28
Omnicell	$1.18 billion	1.62	$2.05 million	$0.44	95.75

Omnicell has higher revenue and earnings than HeartBeam. HeartBeam is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Omnicell, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for HeartBeam and Omnicell, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
HeartBeam	1	2	4	1	2.62
Omnicell	0	1	7	1	3.00

HeartBeam currently has a consensus target price of $4.33, indicating a potential upside of 505.21%. Omnicell has a consensus target price of $59.86, indicating a potential upside of 42.08%. Given HeartBeam’s higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe HeartBeam is more favorable than Omnicell.

Volatility & Risk

HeartBeam has a beta of -0.82, indicating that its stock price is 182% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Omnicell has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares HeartBeam and Omnicell’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
HeartBeam	N/A	-1,034.04%	-434.40%
Omnicell	1.67%	4.00%	2.46%

Summary

Omnicell beats HeartBeam on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About HeartBeam

BioTelemetry, Inc., a remote medical technology company, provides remote cardiac monitoring, remote blood glucose monitoring, centralized core laboratory services for clinical trials, and original equipment manufacturing services for healthcare and clinical research customers worldwide. It operates in two segments, Healthcare and Research. The Healthcare segment focuses on the remote cardiac monitoring to identify cardiac arrhythmias or heart rhythm disorders. This segment offers mobile cardiac telemetry services; and event monitoring services, which enable physicians to prescribe wireless event, digital loop event, memory loop event, memory loop event, and non-loop event monitors. It also provides traditional and extended Holter, pacemaker, international normalized ratio, implantable loop recorder, and other implantable cardiac device monitoring services. It serves cardiologists, electrophysiologists, neurologists, and primary care physicians. The Research segment offers laboratory services, such as cardiac monitoring, imaging, scientific consulting, and data management services for drug and medical device trials. Its centralized services comprise electrocardiogram, Holter monitoring, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, echocardiography, multigated acquisition scan, imaging, protocol development, expert reporting, and statistical analysis. It also provides support services, such as project coordination, setup and management, equipment rental, data transfer, processing, analysis, and 24/7 customer support and site training. The company also focuses on manufacturing, testing, and marketing of cardiac devices and blood glucose monitoring devices, as well as offers contract manufacturing services. BioTelemetry, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania.

About Omnicell

Omnicell, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides medication management solutions and adherence tools for healthcare systems and pharmacies the United States and internationally. The company offers point of care automation solutions to improve clinician workflows in patient care areas of the healthcare system; XT Series automated dispensing systems for medications and supplies used in nursing units and other clinical areas of the hospital, as well as specialized automated dispensing systems for operating room; and robotic dispensing systems for handling the stocking and retrieval of boxed medications. It also provides central pharmacy automation solutions; IV compounding robots; and inventory management software. In addition, the company provides single-dose automation solutions that fill and label a variety of patient-specific, single-dose medication blister packaging based on incoming prescriptions; fully automated and semi-automated filling equipment for institutional pharmacies to warrant automated packaging of medications; and medication blister card packaging and packaging supplies to enhance medication adherence in non-acute care settings. Further, it offers EnlivenHealth Patient Engagement, a web-based solutions. The company was formerly known as Omnicell Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Omnicell, Inc. in 2001. Omnicell, Inc. was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.