CCRN vs. TTEC, BBSI, KELYA, TBI, HQI, DLHC, RCMT, BGSF, HSON, and KFRC
Should you be buying Cross Country Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cross Country Healthcare include TTEC (TTEC), Barrett Business Services (BBSI), Kelly Services (KELYA), TrueBlue (TBI), HireQuest (HQI), DLH (DLHC), RCM Technologies (RCMT), BGSF (BGSF), Hudson Global (HSON), and Kforce (KFRC). These companies are all part of the "help supply services" industry.
TTEC (NASDAQ:TTEC) and Cross Country Healthcare (NASDAQ:CCRN) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking and profitability.
In the previous week, Cross Country Healthcare had 1 more articles in the media than TTEC. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Cross Country Healthcare and 4 mentions for TTEC. TTEC's average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat Cross Country Healthcare's score of -0.25 indicating that Cross Country Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
38.0% of TTEC shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.0% of Cross Country Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. 59.3% of TTEC shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.9% of Cross Country Healthcare shares are held by 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.
TTEC has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cross Country Healthcare has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
TTEC presently has a consensus price target of $22.00, suggesting a potential upside of 184.97%. Cross Country Healthcare has a consensus price target of $21.67, suggesting a potential upside of 26.41%. Given Cross Country Healthcare's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe TTEC is more favorable than Cross Country Healthcare.
Cross Country Healthcare received 144 more outperform votes than TTEC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.04% of users gave Cross Country Healthcare an outperform vote while only 60.60% of users gave TTEC an outperform vote.
Cross Country Healthcare has a net margin of 3.60% compared to Cross Country Healthcare's net margin of 0.34%. TTEC's return on equity of 16.93% beat Cross Country Healthcare's return on equity.
Cross Country Healthcare has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TTEC. Cross Country Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TTEC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Cross Country Healthcare beats TTEC on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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