CCRN vs. KELYA, TBI, HQI, SRT, DLHC, AMN, MD, LH, DGX, and DVA
Should you be buying Cross Country Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cross Country Healthcare include Kelly Services (KELYA), TrueBlue (TBI), HireQuest (HQI), Startek (SRT), DLH (DLHC), AMN Healthcare Services (AMN), Pediatrix Medical Group (MD), Laboratory Co. of America (LH), Quest Diagnostics (DGX), and DaVita (DVA).
Kelly Services (NASDAQ:KELYA) and Cross Country Healthcare (NASDAQ:CCRN) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Cross Country Healthcare received 252 more outperform votes than Kelly Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.10% of users gave Cross Country Healthcare an outperform vote while only 55.75% of users gave Kelly Services an outperform vote.
Kelly Services has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cross Country Healthcare has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Kelly Services presently has a consensus price target of $29.00, suggesting a potential upside of 43.71%. Cross Country Healthcare has a consensus price target of $19.60, suggesting a potential upside of 42.34%. Given Kelly Services' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Kelly Services is more favorable than Cross Country Healthcare.
Kelly Services has a net margin of 1.09% compared to Cross Country Healthcare's net margin of 0.54%. Kelly Services' return on equity of 7.82% beat Cross Country Healthcare's return on equity.
76.3% of Kelly Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.0% of Cross Country Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.9% of Kelly Services shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.9% of Cross Country Healthcare shares are owned 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.
Cross Country Healthcare has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kelly Services. Cross Country Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kelly Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Kelly Services had 1 more articles in the media than Cross Country Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Kelly Services and 2 mentions for Cross Country Healthcare. Cross Country Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Kelly Services' score of 0.54 indicating that Cross Country Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Kelly Services and Cross Country Healthcare tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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