PHLT vs. EVH, NXTT, RDWR, STGW, PRG, CTOS, ETWO, TIXT, WLDN, and EEX
Should you be buying Performant Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Performant Healthcare include Evolent Health (EVH), Next Technology (NXTT), Radware (RDWR), Stagwell (STGW), Aaron's (PRG), Custom Truck One Source (CTOS), E2open Parent (ETWO), Telus Digital (TIXT), Willdan Group (WLDN), and Emerald (EEX). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Performant Healthcare vs. Its Competitors
Performant Healthcare (NASDAQ:PHLT) and Evolent Health (NYSE:EVH) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Performant Healthcare presently has a consensus price target of $8.00, indicating a potential upside of 99.00%. Evolent Health has a consensus price target of $17.93, indicating a potential upside of 58.86%. Given Performant Healthcare's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Performant Healthcare is more favorable than Evolent Health.
77.2% of Performant Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.2% of Performant Healthcare shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Evolent Health shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Evolent Health has a net margin of -4.54% compared to Performant Healthcare's net margin of -4.62%. Evolent Health's return on equity of 3.64% beat Performant Healthcare's return on equity.
Performant Healthcare has a beta of 0.37, suggesting that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Evolent Health has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Performant Healthcare has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Evolent Health. Performant Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Evolent Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Evolent Health had 3 more articles in the media than Performant Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Evolent Health and 2 mentions for Performant Healthcare. Evolent Health's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Performant Healthcare's score of 0.69 indicating that Evolent Health is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Evolent Health beats Performant Healthcare on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NASDAQ:PHLT) was last updated on 7/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
