PHLT vs. RDWR, PRG, WLDN, ETWO, TIXT, NXTT, YEXT, EEX, IIIV, and IBTA
Should you be buying Performant Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Performant Healthcare include Radware (RDWR), Aaron's (PRG), Willdan Group (WLDN), E2open Parent (ETWO), Telus Digital (TIXT), Next Technology (NXTT), Yext (YEXT), Emerald (EEX), i3 Verticals (IIIV), and Ibotta (IBTA). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Performant Healthcare vs. Its Competitors
Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR) and Performant Healthcare (NASDAQ:PHLT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends and profitability.
Radware presently has a consensus price target of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.37%. Performant Healthcare has a consensus price target of $8.00, suggesting a potential upside of 120.99%. Given Performant Healthcare's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Performant Healthcare is more favorable than Radware.
Radware has higher revenue and earnings than Performant Healthcare. Performant Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Radware, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Radware has a net margin of 4.12% compared to Performant Healthcare's net margin of -4.62%. Radware's return on equity of 5.39% beat Performant Healthcare's return on equity.
Radware has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Performant Healthcare has a beta of 0.37, suggesting that its stock price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.
73.1% of Radware shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.2% of Performant Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. 21.6% of Radware shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.2% of Performant Healthcare shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Radware had 4 more articles in the media than Performant Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Radware and 1 mentions for Performant Healthcare. Performant Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Radware's score of 1.25 indicating that Performant Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Radware beats Performant Healthcare on 12 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 7/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
