Definitive Healthcare (DH) Competitors

Definitive Healthcare (NASDAQ:DH) and Sprout Social (NASDAQ:SPT) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.

Do insiders and institutionals believe in DH or SPT?

98.7% of Definitive Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.8% of Definitive Healthcare shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.0% of Sprout Social shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts prefer DH or SPT?

Definitive Healthcare presently has a consensus target price of $5.72, indicating a potential upside of 36.90%. Sprout Social has a consensus target price of $45.46, indicating a potential upside of 40.10%. Given Sprout Social's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sprout Social is more favorable than Definitive Healthcare.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Definitive Healthcare	1 Sell rating(s)	8 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.17
Sprout Social	1 Sell rating(s)	7 Hold rating(s)	7 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.40

Which has stronger earnings & valuation, DH or SPT?

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

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Definitive Healthcare	$255.85M	1.89	-$202.39M	-$3.10	-1.35
Sprout Social	$392.40M	4.75	-$66.43M	-$1.20	-27.04

Which has more risk and volatility, DH or SPT?

Definitive Healthcare has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sprout Social has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor DH or SPT?

Sprout Social received 64 more outperform votes than Definitive Healthcare when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.11% of users gave Sprout Social an outperform vote while only 28.57% of users gave Definitive Healthcare an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Definitive Healthcare	Outperform Votes 24 28.57%	Underperform Votes 60 71.43%
Sprout Social	Outperform Votes 88 61.11%	Underperform Votes 56 38.89%

Is DH or SPT more profitable?

Sprout Social has a net margin of -17.24% compared to Definitive Healthcare's net margin of -142.38%. Definitive Healthcare's return on equity of 1.76% beat Sprout Social's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Definitive Healthcare	-142.38%	1.76%	1.12%
Sprout Social	-17.24%	-40.94%	-15.70%

Does the media prefer DH or SPT?

In the previous week, Sprout Social had 3 more articles in the media than Definitive Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Sprout Social and 4 mentions for Definitive Healthcare. Sprout Social's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Definitive Healthcare's score of 0.78 indicating that Sprout Social is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Definitive Healthcare	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Sprout Social	3 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Sprout Social beats Definitive Healthcare on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.