KEYW (NASDAQ: KEYW) and Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (NASDAQ:MDRX) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Earnings and Valuation
Get KEYW alerts:This table compares KEYW and Allscripts Healthcare Solutions’ top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| KEYW | $441.59 million | 1.05 | -$10.95 million | ($0.45) | -20.64 |
| Allscripts Healthcare Solutions | $1.81 billion | 1.19 | -$152.60 million | $0.47 | 25.62 |
KEYW has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Allscripts Healthcare Solutions. KEYW is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares KEYW and Allscripts Healthcare Solutions’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| KEYW | -1.58% | -0.93% | -0.41% |
| Allscripts Healthcare Solutions | -11.34% | 7.80% | 2.20% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for KEYW and Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| KEYW | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2.71 |
| Allscripts Healthcare Solutions | 1 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 2.75 |
KEYW presently has a consensus target price of $9.75, suggesting a potential upside of 4.95%. Allscripts Healthcare Solutions has a consensus target price of $16.34, suggesting a potential upside of 35.73%. Given Allscripts Healthcare Solutions’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Allscripts Healthcare Solutions is more favorable than KEYW.
Risk and Volatility
KEYW has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Allscripts Healthcare Solutions has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions beats KEYW on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
About KEYW
The KeyW Holding Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides engineering and technology solutions to support the collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination of information across the spectrum of the intelligence, cyber, and counterterrorism communities in the United States. The company's solutions are designed to meet the critical needs of agile intelligence and U.S. Government national security priorities comprising cyber operations and training; geospatial intelligence; cloud and data analytics; engineering; and intelligence analysis and operations. Its products include electro-optical, hyperspectral, and synthetic aperture radar sensors and other products. The company provides its products and services to the U.S. federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies; foreign governments; and other entities in the cyber and counterterrorism markets. The KeyW Holding Corporation was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Hanover, Maryland.
About Allscripts Healthcare Solutions
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. provides information technology solutions and services to healthcare organizations in the United States, Canada, and internationally. It offers electronic health records, connectivity, private cloud hosting, outsourcing, analytics, patient engagement, clinical decision support, and population health management solutions. The company's Clinical and Financial Solutions segment provides integrated clinical software applications and financial and information solutions, which primarily include EHR-related, and financial and practice management software solutions, as well as related installation, support and maintenance, outsourcing, private cloud hosting, revenue cycle management, training, and electronic claims administration services. Its Population Health segment offers health management and coordinated care solutions that enable hospitals, health systems, accountable care organizations, and other care facilities to connect, transition, analyze, and coordinate care across the entire care community. The company's Netsmart segment operates in and provides software and technology solutions to the health and human services, and post-acute sectors of health care. The company serves physicians, hospitals, governments, health systems, health plans, life-sciences companies, retail clinics, retail pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers, insurance companies, and employer wellness clinics, as well as post-acute organizations, such as home health and hospice agencies. Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
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