KFRC vs. CCRN, AMN, TTEC, ASGN, NSP, KFY, MAN, BBSI, KELYA, and HSII
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), TTEC (TTEC), ASGN (ASGN), Insperity (NSP), Korn Ferry (KFY), ManpowerGroup (MAN), Barrett Business Services (BBSI), Kelly Services (KELYA), and Heidrick & Struggles International (HSII).
Kforce (NASDAQ:KFRC) and Cross Country Healthcare (NASDAQ:CCRN) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and profitability.
In the previous week, Cross Country Healthcare had 4 more articles in the media than Kforce. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Cross Country Healthcare and 2 mentions for Kforce. Cross Country Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Kforce's score of 0.70 indicating that Cross Country Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news 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.
Kforce has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cross Country Healthcare has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Kforce has a net margin of 3.78% compared to Cross Country Healthcare's net margin of 2.58%. Kforce's return on equity of 36.39% beat Cross Country Healthcare's return on equity.
Kforce presently has a consensus target price of $68.00, suggesting a potential downside of 0.86%. Cross Country Healthcare has a consensus target price of $20.83, suggesting a potential upside of 26.11%. Given Cross Country Healthcare's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Cross Country Healthcare is more favorable than Kforce.
92.8% of Kforce shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.0% of Cross Country Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. 5.5% of Kforce 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 company will outperform the market over the long term.
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 beats Kforce on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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