CRVL vs. GSHD, SLQT, CRD.A, HIIQ, GOCO, LH, DGX, DVA, CHE, and RCM
Should you be buying CorVel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CorVel include Goosehead Insurance (GSHD), SelectQuote (SLQT), Crawford & Company (CRD.A), Health Insurance Innovations (HIIQ), GoHealth (GOCO), Laboratory Co. of America (LH), Quest Diagnostics (DGX), DaVita (DVA), Chemed (CHE), and R1 RCM (RCM).
CorVel (NASDAQ:CRVL) and Goosehead Insurance (NASDAQ:GSHD) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, earnings and profitability.
CorVel has higher revenue and earnings than Goosehead Insurance. CorVel is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Goosehead Insurance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Goosehead Insurance has a consensus target price of $73.80, indicating a potential upside of 14.42%. Given Goosehead Insurance's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Goosehead Insurance is more favorable than CorVel.
CorVel has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Goosehead Insurance has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, CorVel had 6 more articles in the media than Goosehead Insurance. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for CorVel and 5 mentions for Goosehead Insurance. Goosehead Insurance's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat CorVel's score of 0.28 indicating that Goosehead Insurance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
51.4% of CorVel shares are held by institutional investors. 48.7% of CorVel shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 48.4% of Goosehead Insurance shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Goosehead Insurance received 82 more outperform votes than CorVel when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.38% of users gave CorVel an outperform vote while only 60.27% of users gave Goosehead Insurance an outperform vote.
CorVel has a net margin of 9.59% compared to Goosehead Insurance's net margin of 5.99%. Goosehead Insurance's return on equity of 202.00% beat CorVel's return on equity.
Summary
CorVel beats Goosehead Insurance on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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