CCRN vs. BBSI, TTEC, 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 Barrett Business Services (BBSI), TTEC (TTEC), 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.
Cross Country Healthcare (NASDAQ:CCRN) and Barrett Business Services (NASDAQ:BBSI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
96.0% of Cross Country Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.8% of Barrett Business Services shares are held by institutional investors. 4.9% of Cross Country Healthcare shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Barrett Business Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Barrett Business Services has a net margin of 4.73% compared to Cross Country Healthcare's net margin of 3.60%. Barrett Business Services' return on equity of 27.69% beat Cross Country Healthcare's return on equity.
Cross Country Healthcare currently has a consensus price target of $21.67, indicating a potential upside of 26.41%. Barrett Business Services has a consensus price target of $141.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.79%. Given Cross Country Healthcare's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Cross Country Healthcare is more favorable than Barrett Business Services.
Cross Country Healthcare has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barrett Business Services has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cross Country Healthcare received 139 more outperform votes than Barrett Business Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.63% of users gave Barrett Business Services an outperform vote while only 65.04% of users gave Cross Country Healthcare an outperform vote.
Cross Country Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than Barrett Business Services. Cross Country Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Barrett Business Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Barrett Business Services had 4 more articles in the media than Cross Country Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Barrett Business Services and 5 mentions for Cross Country Healthcare. Barrett Business Services' average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Cross Country Healthcare's score of 0.13 indicating that Barrett Business Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Barrett Business Services beats Cross Country Healthcare on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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