PFMT vs. HCSG, VVI, NVEE, DFIN, JCI, CTAS, CPRT, IRM, UNF, and MGRC
Should you be buying Performant Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Performant Financial include Healthcare Services Group (HCSG), Viad (VVI), NV5 Global (NVEE), Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN), Johnson Controls International (JCI), Cintas (CTAS), Copart (CPRT), Iron Mountain (IRM), UniFirst (UNF), and McGrath RentCorp (MGRC).
Healthcare Services Group (NASDAQ:HCSG) and Performant Financial (NASDAQ:PFMT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends and valuation.
Healthcare Services Group has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Performant Financial has a beta of 0.17, indicating that its stock price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Healthcare Services Group has a net margin of 1.82% compared to Healthcare Services Group's net margin of -6.34%. Performant Financial's return on equity of 12.58% beat Healthcare Services Group's return on equity.
98.0% of Healthcare Services Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.2% of Performant Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Healthcare Services Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.4% of Performant Financial shares are held by 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.
Healthcare Services Group received 43 more outperform votes than Performant Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.22% of users gave Performant Financial an outperform vote while only 56.02% of users gave Healthcare Services Group an outperform vote.
Healthcare Services Group has higher revenue and earnings than Performant Financial. Performant Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Healthcare Services Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Healthcare Services Group had 22 more articles in the media than Performant Financial. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Healthcare Services Group and 3 mentions for Performant Financial. Healthcare Services Group's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Performant Financial's score of 0.45 indicating that Performant Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Healthcare Services Group currently has a consensus target price of $14.50, suggesting a potential upside of 27.75%. Performant Financial has a consensus target price of $8.00, suggesting a potential upside of 123.46%. Given Healthcare Services Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Performant Financial is more favorable than Healthcare Services Group.
Summary
Healthcare Services Group beats Performant Financial on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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