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).
Goosehead Insurance (NASDAQ:GSHD) and CorVel (NASDAQ:CRVL) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, profitability, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
51.4% of CorVel shares are owned by institutional investors. 48.4% of Goosehead Insurance shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 48.7% of CorVel shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Goosehead Insurance currently has a consensus price target of $73.80, suggesting a potential upside of 14.42%. Given CorVel's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Goosehead Insurance is more favorable than CorVel.
CorVel has a net margin of 9.59% compared to CorVel's net margin of 5.99%. CorVel's return on equity of 202.00% beat Goosehead Insurance's return on equity.
In the previous week, CorVel had 5 more articles in the media than Goosehead Insurance. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for CorVel and 6 mentions for Goosehead Insurance. CorVel's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Goosehead Insurance's score of 0.28 indicating that Goosehead Insurance is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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 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.
Goosehead Insurance has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CorVel has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
CorVel beats Goosehead Insurance on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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