CorVel Corp. CRVL

Competitive advantage analysis · financial-services

Insurance & Reinsurance
Overall moat score
72/100
Moderate

About CorVel Corp.

CorVel Corporation provides workers' compensation, general and auto liability, and hospital bill auditing and payment integrity 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, … Full CRVL analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Superior Returns on Float Float investment returns are strong (signal score 0.88), with ROA at 18.56% vs peers — investment income amplifies underwriting profit.
  • Strong Return on Equity ROE signal is strong (score 0.95), with ROE at 30.8% — indicating efficient capital deployment.

The dashed ring is the peer median. Defense scores are percentile ranks against peers, so 50 is roughly the typical company in this group.

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Underwriting Discipline

Moderate
63

Where CRVL ranks in Insurance Brokers

CorVel Corp. ranks #4 of 21 scored companies in Insurance Brokers by moat score — the top 19%. The widest moat in the group is Brown & Brown, Inc. (BRO) at 82/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near CRVL in Insurance Brokers
# Company Moat score Rating
1 Brown & Brown, Inc. BRO 82/100 Strong
2 Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc MMC 82/100 Strong
3 Aon plc AON 73/100 Moderate
4 CorVel Corp. CRVL 72/100 Moderate
5 Erie Indemnity Company ERIE 70/100 Moderate
6 Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. AJG 70/100 Moderate
7 TWFG, Inc. TWFG 67/100 Moderate
8 Willis Towers Watson Public Lim WTW 66/100 Moderate
9 Crawford & Company CRD-A 62/100 Moderate

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How CRVL scores on the Insurance & Reinsurance defenses

Underwriting Discipline

Score 62 · 25% of the moat score

Underwriting discipline is the core insurance moat, and it consists mostly of the willingness to lose business.

Float Investment Quality

Score 84 · 20% of the moat score

Float is the money an insurer holds between collecting premiums and paying claims — capital it invests but does not own.

Pricing Power

Score 48 · 18% of the moat score

For an insurer, pricing power is the ability to push rate ahead of claims inflation and keep the policyholders anyway.

Capital Strength & Solvency

Score 98 · 17% of the moat score

Capital is what lets an insurer credibly promise to pay a claim that has not happened yet, and it is scrutinised by regulators and rating agencies alike.

Operational Efficiency

Score 62 · 12% of the moat score

The expense ratio — what it costs to acquire and administer a policy — is the half of the combined ratio management fully controls.

Scale & Diversification

Score 89 · 8% of the moat score

Diversification is a real economic advantage in insurance rather than a portfolio preference: risks spread across perils, geographies and lines are less likely to arrive at once, so the same capital supports more premium.

How each Insurance & Reinsurance defense is measured, in full →

Understanding CRVL's moat

What is CorVel Corp.'s moat score?

CorVel Corp. (CRVL) scores 72 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #4 of 21 scored companies in Insurance Brokers, the top 19%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 20 companies in Insurance Brokers. Its strongest defense is Capital Strength & Solvency (98/100) and its weakest is Pricing Power (48/100).

How does CorVel Corp. compare with other Insurance Brokers companies?

CorVel Corp. ranks #4 of 21 scored companies in Insurance Brokers by moat score. The widest moat in Insurance Brokers is Brown & Brown, Inc. (BRO) at 82/100. The companies ranked closest are Aon plc (AON) at 73 just above it and Erie Indemnity Company (ERIE) at 70 just below it.

How is the moat score calculated?

Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Insurance & Reinsurance in this case, chosen because the defenses that matter to a bank are not the ones that matter to a software company. Every defense combines several financial signals, and each signal is measured as a percentile against a peer group of 20 companies in Insurance Brokers. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is CorVel Corp. scored with the Insurance & Reinsurance template?

An insurer is paid before it knows what its product cost, and invests the money in the meantime. Profit therefore comes from two sources that must both work: pricing risk better than rivals, and earning a return on the float those premiums create. The Insurance template scores that pair, along with the capital that lets a company survive the year in which the losses arrive together.

Which competitive defenses are measured for CorVel Corp.?

The Insurance & Reinsurance template measures 6 defenses, and CRVL scores: Underwriting Discipline (62), Float Investment Quality (84), Pricing Power (48), Capital Strength & Solvency (98), Operational Efficiency (62), Scale & Diversification (89). Each is scored independently as a percentile against peers, so a company can be strong on one and weak on another — the overall score reflects how those defenses are weighted for this industry.

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