PHLT vs. EVTC, PINC, ACVA, ALIT, LZ, FIVN, UPWK, VVX, RAMP, and OLO
Should you be buying Performant Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Performant Healthcare include Evertec (EVTC), Premier (PINC), ACV Auctions (ACVA), Alight (ALIT), LegalZoom.com (LZ), Five9 (FIVN), Upwork (UPWK), V2X (VVX), LiveRamp (RAMP), and OLO (OLO). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Performant Healthcare vs. Its Competitors
Performant Healthcare (NASDAQ:PHLT) and Evertec (NYSE:EVTC) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, risk, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Evertec had 11 more articles in the media than Performant Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Evertec and 1 mentions for Performant Healthcare. Evertec's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Performant Healthcare's score of 0.00 indicating that Evertec is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Evertec has a net margin of 15.56% compared to Performant Healthcare's net margin of -0.64%. Evertec's return on equity of 36.67% beat Performant Healthcare's return on equity.
Performant Healthcare has a beta of 0.41, indicating that its share price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Evertec has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Performant Healthcare presently has a consensus target price of $7.88, indicating a potential upside of 3.62%. Evertec has a consensus target price of $39.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.73%. Given Evertec's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Evertec is more favorable than Performant Healthcare.
77.2% of Performant Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.8% of Evertec shares are held by institutional investors. 9.1% of Performant Healthcare shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Evertec shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Evertec has higher revenue and earnings than Performant Healthcare. Performant Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Evertec, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Evertec beats Performant Healthcare on 14 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NASDAQ:PHLT) was last updated on 8/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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