KFRC vs. CCRN, AMN, ASGN, NSP, MAN, KFY, BBSI, KELYA, HSII, and TBI
Should you be buying Kforce stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kforce include Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN), AMN Healthcare Services (AMN), ASGN (ASGN), Insperity (NSP), ManpowerGroup (MAN), Korn Ferry (KFY), Barrett Business Services (BBSI), Kelly Services (KELYA), Heidrick & Struggles International (HSII), and TrueBlue (TBI).
Cross Country Healthcare (NASDAQ:CCRN) and Kforce (NASDAQ:KFRC) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends and media sentiment.
Cross Country Healthcare has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kforce has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Kforce has a net margin of 3.78% compared to Kforce's net margin of 2.58%. Cross Country Healthcare's return on equity of 36.39% beat Kforce's return on equity.
Cross Country Healthcare presently has a consensus target price of $20.83, suggesting a potential upside of 41.82%. Kforce has a consensus target price of $68.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.86%. Given Kforce's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Cross Country Healthcare is more favorable than Kforce.
96.0% of Cross Country Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.8% of Kforce shares are held by institutional investors. 4.9% of Cross Country Healthcare shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Kforce shares are held by 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.
In the previous week, Kforce had 3 more articles in the media than Cross Country Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Kforce and 2 mentions for Cross Country Healthcare. Kforce's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Cross Country Healthcare's score of 1.00 indicating that Cross Country Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cross Country Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than Kforce. Cross Country Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kforce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cross Country Healthcare received 57 more outperform votes than Kforce when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.14% of users gave Cross Country Healthcare an outperform vote while only 62.24% of users gave Kforce an outperform vote.
Summary
Cross Country Healthcare and Kforce tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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