Financial Contrast: Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock (NASDAQ:PHLT) vs. COMTEX News Network (OTCMKTS:CMTX)

Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock (NASDAQ:PHLT) and COMTEX News Network (OTCMKTS:CMTX) are both medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk and valuation.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock and COMTEX News Network”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock	$122.98 million	1.64	-$7.52 million	($0.13)	-19.85
COMTEX News Network	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

COMTEX News Network has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock.

Volatility & Risk

Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock has a beta of -0.11, suggesting that its stock price is 111% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, COMTEX News Network has a beta of -2.9, suggesting that its stock price is 390% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

77.2% of Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock shares are held by institutional investors. 9.2% of Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.0% of COMTEX News Network shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock and COMTEX News Network’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock	-6.74%	-10.19%	-7.83%
COMTEX News Network	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock and COMTEX News Network, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock	0	0	0	1	4.00
COMTEX News Network	0	0	0	0	0.00

Summary

Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock beats COMTEX News Network on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Performant Healthcare, Inc. – Common Stock

Performant Healthcare, Inc. engages in the provision of technology-enabled audit, recovery, customer care, and related analytics services. Its services help identify improper payments, and in some markets, restructure and recover delinquent or defaulted assets and improper payments for both government and private clients. The company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Plantation, FL.

About COMTEX News Network

Comtex News Network, Inc. provides electronic real-time news, and content and proprietary market products in the United States. The company receives, enhances, combines, and filters news and content received from national and international news bureaus, agencies, and publications. Its products comprise CustomWires, the real-time and subject-specific newswires, such as finance, business, foreign exchange, and public companies, as well as real-time trading data in the global stock markets, commodities and futures prices, SEC filing information, personal investment news, economic indicator data, international trade policies, business news, IRS bulletins, and actions from the global financial institutions; and Comtex Top News that include editorial news summaries in 29 categories. The company also provides feed products and custom solutions; and SmarTrend products for managing investments. Comtex News Network, Inc. was incorporated in 1980 and is based in New York, New York.