AMN vs. CHE, RCM, CRVL, AMED, MD, CCRN, LH, DGX, DVA, and RHI
Should you be buying AMN Healthcare Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AMN Healthcare Services include Chemed (CHE), R1 RCM (RCM), CorVel (CRVL), Amedisys (AMED), Pediatrix Medical Group (MD), Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN), Laboratory Co. of America (LH), Quest Diagnostics (DGX), DaVita (DVA), and Robert Half (RHI).
Chemed (NYSE:CHE) and AMN Healthcare Services (NYSE:AMN) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
Chemed has a net margin of 12.36% compared to Chemed's net margin of 4.13%. Chemed's return on equity of 31.39% beat AMN Healthcare Services' return on equity.
Chemed presently has a consensus price target of $673.50, suggesting a potential upside of 21.49%. AMN Healthcare Services has a consensus price target of $75.57, suggesting a potential upside of 35.09%. Given Chemed's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe AMN Healthcare Services is more favorable than Chemed.
95.9% of Chemed shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.2% of AMN Healthcare Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of Chemed shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of AMN Healthcare Services shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Chemed has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AMN Healthcare Services has a beta of 0.22, indicating that its stock price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Chemed had 1 more articles in the media than AMN Healthcare Services. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Chemed and 7 mentions for AMN Healthcare Services. AMN Healthcare Services' average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Chemed's score of 0.62 indicating that Chemed is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AMN Healthcare Services received 108 more outperform votes than Chemed when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.87% of users gave AMN Healthcare Services an outperform vote while only 63.46% of users gave Chemed an outperform vote.
Chemed has higher earnings, but lower revenue than AMN Healthcare Services. AMN Healthcare Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chemed, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Chemed pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. AMN Healthcare Services pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Chemed pays out 8.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AMN Healthcare Services pays out 32.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Chemed has raised its dividend for 15 consecutive years.
Summary
Chemed beats AMN Healthcare Services on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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