CRD.B vs. EHTH, MMC, AON, AJG, BRO, TWFG, SLQT, WDH, GOCO, and ZBAO
Should you be buying Crawford & Company stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crawford & Company include eHealth (EHTH), Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC), AON (AON), Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (AJG), Brown & Brown (BRO), TWFG (TWFG), SelectQuote (SLQT), Waterdrop (WDH), GoHealth (GOCO), and Zhibao Technology (ZBAO). These companies are all part of the "insurance agents, brokers, & service" industry.
Crawford & Company vs.
Crawford & Company (NYSE:CRD.B) and eHealth (NASDAQ:EHTH) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, profitability, valuation and dividends.
eHealth has a consensus target price of $4.50, suggesting a potential downside of 13.13%. Given eHealth's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe eHealth is more favorable than Crawford & Company.
Crawford & Company has higher revenue and earnings than eHealth. eHealth is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crawford & Company, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, eHealth had 2 more articles in the media than Crawford & Company. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for eHealth and 0 mentions for Crawford & Company. Crawford & Company's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat eHealth's score of -0.05 indicating that Crawford & Company is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Crawford & Company has a net margin of 1.55% compared to eHealth's net margin of -7.58%. Crawford & Company's return on equity of 22.34% beat eHealth's return on equity.
eHealth received 315 more outperform votes than Crawford & Company when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.92% of users gave eHealth an outperform vote while only 54.02% of users gave Crawford & Company an outperform vote.
Crawford & Company has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, eHealth has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.
11.0% of Crawford & Company shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.5% of eHealth shares are owned by institutional investors. 51.0% of Crawford & Company shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of eHealth shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Crawford & Company beats eHealth on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:CRD.B) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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