CRVL vs. WU, NVEI, BCO, SRCL, DNB, CNXC, BRZE, EXPO, AUR, and PAGS
Should you be buying CorVel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CorVel include Western Union (WU), Nuvei (NVEI), Brink's (BCO), Stericycle (SRCL), Dun & Bradstreet (DNB), Concentrix (CNXC), Braze (BRZE), Exponent (EXPO), Aurora Innovation (AUR), and PagSeguro Digital (PAGS). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Western Union (NYSE:WU) and CorVel (NASDAQ:CRVL) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
Western Union has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CorVel has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Western Union has higher revenue and earnings than CorVel. Western Union is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CorVel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Western Union has a net margin of 14.12% compared to Western Union's net margin of 9.69%. CorVel's return on equity of 120.76% beat Western Union's return on equity.
91.8% of Western Union shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.4% of CorVel shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Western Union shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 48.7% of CorVel shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Western Union received 410 more outperform votes than CorVel when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.60% of users gave CorVel an outperform vote while only 53.78% of users gave Western Union an outperform vote.
Western Union currently has a consensus target price of $13.61, indicating a potential upside of 3.59%. Given CorVel's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Western Union is more favorable than CorVel.
In the previous week, Western Union had 13 more articles in the media than CorVel. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Western Union and 4 mentions for CorVel. CorVel's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Western Union's score of 0.52 indicating that Western Union is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Western Union beats CorVel on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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