CRD.A vs. WDH, DAO, ICG, RDUS, ACTG, DADA, BWMN, FC, CTLP, and NNOX
Should you be buying Crawford & Company stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crawford & Company include Waterdrop (WDH), Youdao (DAO), Intchains Group (ICG), Radius Recycling (RDUS), Acacia Research (ACTG), Dada Nexus (DADA), Bowman Consulting Group (BWMN), Franklin Covey (FC), Cantaloupe (CTLP), and Nano-X Imaging (NNOX). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Waterdrop (NYSE:WDH) and Crawford & Company (NYSE:CRD.A) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
Waterdrop currently has a consensus price target of $2.80, suggesting a potential upside of 133.33%. Crawford & Company has a consensus price target of $14.00, suggesting a potential upside of 43.59%. Given Crawford & Company's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Waterdrop is more favorable than Crawford & Company.
2.0% of Waterdrop shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.6% of Crawford & Company shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.6% of Waterdrop shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 57.0% of Crawford & Company shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Waterdrop has a net margin of 6.40% compared to Waterdrop's net margin of 2.35%. Waterdrop's return on equity of 31.57% beat Crawford & Company's return on equity.
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.
Waterdrop has a beta of -0.33, indicating that its share price is 133% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crawford & Company has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
In the previous week, Waterdrop had 2 more articles in the media than Crawford & Company. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Waterdrop and 1 mentions for Crawford & Company. Waterdrop's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Crawford & Company's score of -0.33 indicating that Crawford & Company is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Crawford & Company beats Waterdrop on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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