Financial Review: Rightscorp (OTCMKTS:RIHT) versus CorVel (NASDAQ:CRVL)

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Rightscorp and CorVel”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Rightscorp	$290,000.00	11.28	-$410,000.00	N/A	N/A
CorVel	$895.59 million	5.06	$95.17 million	$1.84	47.86

CorVel has higher revenue and earnings than Rightscorp.

Profitability

This table compares Rightscorp and CorVel’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Rightscorp	N/A	N/A	N/A
CorVel	10.63%	32.55%	18.22%

Risk & Volatility

Rightscorp has a beta of -0.31, indicating that its stock price is 131% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CorVel has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

0.1% of Rightscorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.4% of CorVel shares are held by institutional investors. 44.6% of CorVel shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

CorVel beats Rightscorp on 8 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Rightscorp

Rightscorp, Inc. operates as a technology company that has a patent-pending proprietary method for collecting payments from illegal downloaders of copyrighted content through notifications sent to their Internet service providers (ISP’s). The company’s technology system monitors peer-to-peer file sharing networks and sends through email to ISP’s notifications of copyright infringement by the ISPs’ customers with date, time, copyright title, and other specific technology identifiers worldwide. It primarily serves copyright holders. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

About CorVel

CorVel Corporation provides workers’ compensation, auto, liability, and health solutions. It applies technology, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing to enhance the managing of episodes of care and the related health care costs. The company also offers network solutions services, including automated medical fee auditing, preferred provider management and reimbursement, retrospective utilization review, facility claim review, professional review, pharmacy, directed care, clearinghouse, independent medical examination, and inpatient medical bill review services, as well as Medicare solutions. In addition, it provides a range of patient management services, such as claims management, case management, 24/7 nurse triage, utilization management, vocational rehabilitation, and life care planning, as well as processing of claims for self-insured payors with respect to property and casualty insurance. The company offers solutions to employers, third party administrators, insurance companies, and government agencies to assist them in managing the medical costs and monitoring the quality of care associated with healthcare claims. CorVel Corporation was incorporated in 1987 and is based in Fort Worth, Texas.