CRD.A vs. WDH, DADA, BWMN, ACTG, SMRT, GDOT, VOCL, RDUS, NNOX, and LNZA
Should you be buying Crawford & Company stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crawford & Company include Waterdrop (WDH), Dada Nexus (DADA), Bowman Consulting Group (BWMN), Acacia Research (ACTG), SmartRent (SMRT), Green Dot (GDOT), Creatd (VOCL), Radius Recycling (RDUS), Nano-X Imaging (NNOX), and LanzaTech Global (LNZA). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Crawford & Company (NYSE:CRD.A) and Waterdrop (NYSE:WDH) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations and risk.
Crawford & Company received 127 more outperform votes than Waterdrop when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.43% of users gave Waterdrop an outperform vote while only 60.62% of users gave Crawford & Company an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Waterdrop had 3 more articles in the media than Crawford & Company. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Waterdrop and 1 mentions for Crawford & Company. Waterdrop's average media sentiment score of 0.23 beat Crawford & Company's score of 0.00 indicating that Waterdrop is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
22.6% of Crawford & Company shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.0% of Waterdrop shares are held by institutional investors. 57.0% of Crawford & Company shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.6% of Waterdrop shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Crawford & Company has higher revenue and earnings than Waterdrop. Crawford & Company is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Waterdrop, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Crawford & Company has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waterdrop has a beta of -0.33, meaning that its share price is 133% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Crawford & Company currently has a consensus price target of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 43.59%. Waterdrop has a consensus price target of $2.80, indicating a potential upside of 133.33%. Given Waterdrop's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Waterdrop is more favorable than Crawford & Company.
Waterdrop has a net margin of 6.40% compared to Crawford & Company's net margin of 2.35%. Crawford & Company's return on equity of 31.57% beat Waterdrop's return on equity.
Summary
Crawford & Company beats Waterdrop on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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