One-glance verdict
$7.03 our estimate vs market $2.09
Wall Street consensus: $6.12 (-12.8% lower than our fair-value estimate)
70% below our estimate, below the bear case
Fundamentals snapshot
CCLD · NGM · Healthcare · Health Information Services
Current price
$2.09
52-week range
$2.03 - $3.85
Market cap
$88.81M
One-glance verdict
Wall Street consensus: $6.12 (-12.8% lower than our fair-value estimate)
70% below our estimate, below the bear case
Balance sheet
Net debt $40.62M. Interest coverage shows how many times profit covers the interest bill.
What stands out
What this company does
CareCloud provides software and services to help doctors' offices and hospitals manage their business, from digital patient records to the complex process of billing insurance companies. The company makes money by charging for these tools and by running the back-office operations for medical practices, creating a steady stream of recurring revenue (income that is predictable and likely to continue in the future). This allows healthcare providers to focus more on patient care and less on paperwork.
CareCloud started in 1999 as a small business called MTBC, which stood for Medical Transcription Billing Corporation. [3] Initially, it focused on basic services for doctors' offices, like typing up spoken notes and handling billing paperwork. [3] After going public on the stock market in 2014, the company began growing by acquiring (buying) many other smaller healthcare technology companies. [3] A major turning point was in 2020 when it bought a company named CareCloud, and in 2021, MTBC changed its own name to CareCloud because it better reflected its focus on modern, cloud-based healthcare technology. [3, 7]
CareCloud provides software and services that help doctors' offices and hospitals manage their day-to-day operations. [11, 16] Think of it as the digital backbone for a medical practice, handling everything from scheduling appointments and storing patient records to making sure insurance companies pay for treatments. [12, 15] Their tools aim to simplify the complex administrative and financial tasks of running a healthcare business so that doctors and nurses can spend more time with patients. [15, 19] These services are delivered over the internet, often referred to as being "cloud-based," meaning the practice doesn't need to maintain its own complex computer servers. [11]
This is CareCloud's largest business, making up the vast majority of its revenue (the money it brings in from sales). [1] This segment provides medical practices with a suite of software tools. [9, 10] Key products include Electronic Health Records (EHR), which is a digital version of a patient's paper chart, and Practice Management software for scheduling and daily tasks. [11] It also includes Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) services, which is the crucial process of managing claims, billing, and payments from insurance companies to ensure the medical practice gets paid for its services. [15]
This is a smaller, more hands-on part of CareCloud's business. [1] Instead of just providing software, this segment offers more comprehensive support services to run a medical practice. [1] This can include providing the physical office space, necessary equipment, medical supplies, and even administrative staff and nurses. [1] Essentially, a doctor or a group of doctors can hire CareCloud to manage the business side of their practice, allowing them to focus purely on treating patients.
The company is heavily investing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make its software smarter and more automated, reducing the time doctors spend on paperwork. [5, 21] They are also continuing their strategy of growth through acquisitions (buying other companies) to enter new markets and add more healthcare providers to their platform. [19, 21] Finally, CareCloud is focused on expanding its digital health services, especially telehealth (offering appointments with doctors over video), which has become much more common. [12, 14, 20]
Price history
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Is it cheap or expensive?
Wall Street consensus is the average analyst price target: $6.12 (-12.8% lower than our fair-value estimate).
Our most-likely fair value is $7.03 a share — about 236.2% above today's price of $2.09, so the stock currently looks cheap (undervalued).
Is it drowning in debt?
Net debt $40.6M. Interest coverage 40.1x.
CareCloud, Inc.'s profit covers its interest bill about 40.1 times over. which is stronger than every peer shown here and 3 peers sit below 1x, which is the danger zone where profit does not fully cover the interest bill.
Total debt $54.01M Interest coverage 40.06x This is the baseline the peer rows are being compared against.
Total debt $218.81M Interest coverage -3.08x -100% vs CCLD This peer has almost no interest-payment cushion compared with CCLD.
Total debt $67.95M Interest coverage -0.95x -100% vs CCLD This peer has almost no interest-payment cushion compared with CCLD.
Total debt $51.38M Interest coverage -18.01x -100% vs CCLD This peer has almost no interest-payment cushion compared with CCLD.
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