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$9.48 -0.35 (-3.51%)
Closing price 07/30/2025 03:49 PM Eastern
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CRD.B vs. CRD.A, EHTH, MMC, AJG, AON, BRO, BV, EVRI, WLDN, and HCSG

Should you be buying Crawford & Company stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crawford & Company include Crawford & Company (CRD.A), eHealth (EHTH), Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC), Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (AJG), AON (AON), Brown & Brown (BRO), BrightView (BV), Everi (EVRI), Willdan Group (WLDN), and Healthcare Services Group (HCSG).

Crawford & Company vs. Its Competitors

Crawford & Company (NYSE:CRD.B) and Crawford & Company (NYSE:CRD.A) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.

Crawford & Company has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crawford & Company has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Crawford & Company had 2 more articles in the media than Crawford & Company. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Crawford & Company and 0 mentions for Crawford & Company. Crawford & Company's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Crawford & Company's score of 0.00 indicating that Crawford & Company is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Crawford & Company Positive
Crawford & Company Neutral

Crawford & Company pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Crawford & Company pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Crawford & Company pays out 46.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Crawford & Company pays out 70.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Crawford & Company is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

11.0% of Crawford & Company shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.6% of Crawford & Company shares are held by institutional investors. 51.0% of Crawford & Company shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 55.3% of Crawford & Company shares are held by 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 is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crawford & Company, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Crawford & Company$1.34B0.35$26.60M$0.6015.79
Crawford & Company$1.34B0.36$26.60M$0.4024.50

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Crawford & Company2.25% 27.77% 5.44%
Crawford & Company 2.25%27.77%5.44%

Summary

Crawford & Company beats Crawford & Company on 6 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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CRD.B vs. The Competition

MetricCrawford & CompanyBUSINESS SVCS IndustryBusiness SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$485.64M$5.97B$14.86B$20.97B
Dividend Yield2.85%3.11%2.77%3.61%
P/E Ratio15.7925.3026.3928.76
Price / Sales0.351.9548.5256.51
Price / Cash6.4016.0026.6423.15
Price / Book3.005.125.904.51
Net Income$26.60M$155.75M$196.26M$993.26M
7 Day Performance-8.09%-2.87%-3.75%-1.79%
1 Month Performance-9.33%1.63%0.91%2.02%
1 Year Performance2.88%44.63%46.56%7.31%

Crawford & Company Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CRD.B
Crawford & Company
4.3145 of 5 stars
$9.48
-3.5%
N/A+4.7%$485.64M$1.34B15.7910,040Positive News
CRD.A
Crawford & Company
N/A$10.96
+8.3%
$14.00
+27.8%
+0.0%$522.23M$1.34B12.149,000Gap Up
EHTH
eHealth
4.037 of 5 stars
$3.95
+5.9%
$6.75
+70.9%
-38.1%$113.12M$532.41M-4.031,773News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
MMC
Marsh & McLennan Companies
4.588 of 5 stars
$210.39
+0.2%
$239.79
+14.0%
-9.9%$103.25B$24.46B25.2390,000Positive News
AJG
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
4.5542 of 5 stars
$312.86
+1.5%
$318.21
+1.7%
+0.2%$78.94B$11.40B45.2856,000Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
AON
AON
4.2688 of 5 stars
$354.80
+1.1%
$403.00
+13.6%
+8.1%$75.78B$15.70B30.2260,000Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
BRO
Brown & Brown
4.3703 of 5 stars
$103.29
+0.8%
$118.23
+14.5%
-6.8%$29.38B$4.81B28.7717,403Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
BV
BrightView
1.0732 of 5 stars
$15.72
+0.2%
$17.27
+9.9%
+14.5%$1.49B$2.77B-785.3620,100News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
EVRI
Everi
0.6006 of 5 stars
$14.24
flat
$14.25
+0.1%
N/A$1.24B$757.90M89.011,550Upcoming Earnings
WLDN
Willdan Group
4.0064 of 5 stars
$79.31
+0.4%
$51.50
-35.1%
+150.6%$1.15B$565.80M46.931,761Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
HCSG
Healthcare Services Group
2.1557 of 5 stars
$13.05
+2.4%
$14.80
+13.4%
+16.2%$928.98M$1.72B23.3035,300Analyst Upgrade
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High Trading Volume

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This page (NYSE:CRD.B) was last updated on 7/31/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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