Head-To-Head Contrast: AMN Healthcare Services (AMN) & Its Peers

AMN Healthcare Services (NYSE:AMN) is one of 233 publicly-traded companies in the “Healthcare Providers & Services” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare AMN Healthcare Services to similar businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, earnings and dividends.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares AMN Healthcare Services and its competitors revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
AMN Healthcare Services	$2.73 billion	-$95.70 million	13.82
AMN Healthcare Services Competitors	$21.12 billion	$288.54 million	7.19

AMN Healthcare Services’ competitors have higher revenue and earnings than AMN Healthcare Services. AMN Healthcare Services is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares AMN Healthcare Services and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
AMN Healthcare Services	3.06%	19.92%	5.93%
AMN Healthcare Services Competitors	-8.02%	-140.32%	-1.38%

Risk and Volatility

AMN Healthcare Services has a beta of 0.42, suggesting that its stock price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AMN Healthcare Services’ competitors have a beta of 0.98, suggesting that their average stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for AMN Healthcare Services and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
AMN Healthcare Services	1	4	4	0	2.33
AMN Healthcare Services Competitors	1861	7725	13345	820	2.55

AMN Healthcare Services presently has a consensus target price of $39.17, indicating a potential upside of 3.08%. As a group, “Healthcare Providers & Services” companies have a potential upside of 13.54%. Given AMN Healthcare Services’ competitors stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe AMN Healthcare Services has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

99.2% of AMN Healthcare Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.7% of shares of all “Healthcare Providers & Services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of AMN Healthcare Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.0% of shares of all “Healthcare Providers & Services” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

AMN Healthcare Services competitors beat AMN Healthcare Services on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

About AMN Healthcare Services

AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. provides healthcare workforce solutions and staffing services to healthcare facilities in the United States. It operates through three segments: Nurse and Allied Solutions, Physician and Leadership Solutions, and Technology and Workforce Solutions. The Nurse and Allied Solutions segment offers travel nurse staffing, labor disruption staffing, local staffing, international nurse and allied permanent placement, and allied staffing solutions. The Physician and Leadership Solutions segment provides locum tenens staffing, healthcare interim leadership staffing, executive search, and physician permanent placement solutions. The Technology and Workforce Solutions segment offers language services, vendor management systems, workforce optimization, and outsourced solutions. The company also provides allied health professionals, such as physical therapists, respiratory therapists, occupational therapists, medical and radiology technologists, lab technicians, speech pathologists, rehabilitation assistants, and pharmacists. It offers its services under the brands, including AMN Healthcare, Nursefinders, HealthSource Global Staffing, O'Grady Peyton International, Connetics, Medical Search International, DRW Healthcare Staffing, and B.E. Smith. AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.