MSP Recovery (LIFW) & The Competition Head to Head Review

MSP Recovery (NASDAQ:LIFW) is one of 144 publicly-traded companies in the “Data processing & preparation” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare MSP Recovery to related businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends and risk.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

3.8% of MSP Recovery shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.5% of shares of all “Data processing & preparation” companies are held by institutional investors. 19.4% of MSP Recovery shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.9% of shares of all “Data processing & preparation” companies are held by company 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.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares MSP Recovery and its peers revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
MSP Recovery	$7.70 million	-$56.35 million	-0.11
MSP Recovery Competitors	$962.47 million	$10.22 million	-9.84

MSP Recovery’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than MSP Recovery. MSP Recovery is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for MSP Recovery and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
MSP Recovery	0	0	0	0	N/A
MSP Recovery Competitors	745	3999	5667	113	2.49

As a group, “Data processing & preparation” companies have a potential upside of 30.22%. Given MSP Recovery’s peers higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe MSP Recovery has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares MSP Recovery and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
MSP Recovery	-724.07%	-3.70%	-1.76%
MSP Recovery Competitors	-119.74%	-1,811.87%	-7.95%

Risk and Volatility

MSP Recovery has a beta of -2.21, suggesting that its share price is 321% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MSP Recovery’s peers have a beta of 1.20, suggesting that their average share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

MSP Recovery peers beat MSP Recovery on 6 of the 10 factors compared.

About MSP Recovery

MSP Recovery, Inc., doing business as LifeWallet, operates as a healthcare recovery and data analytics company in the United States and Puerto Rico. The company offers claims recovery services, including services to related parties or third parties to assist entities with pursuit of claims recovery rights. It also provides LifeWallet, a scalable and expandable data ecosystem where tokenized data is stored in a platform with multiple applications, including LifeWallet EHR for hospitals, medical providers, major medical laboratories, and governmental entities that gather and store electronic health records; Chase to Pay, a real-time, or near real-time analytics driven platform that identifies the proper primary payer at the point of care; LifeChain which is in development in order to tokenize healthcare claims and patient records using blockchain technology; LifeWallet 911 which is in development for utilization by emergency service organizations; LifeWallet Legal; LifeWallet Health; and LifeWallet Sports which connected brands with college athletes. MSP Recovery, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida.