CCRN vs. TTEC, BBSI, 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 TTEC (TTEC), Barrett Business Services (BBSI), Kelly Services (KELYA), TrueBlue (TBI), HireQuest (HQI), DLH (DLHC), RCM Technologies (RCMT), BGSF (BGSF), Hudson Global (HSON), and Kforce (KFRC).
Cross Country Healthcare (NASDAQ:CCRN) and TTEC (NASDAQ:TTEC) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and dividends.
In the previous week, Cross Country Healthcare had 6 more articles in the media than TTEC. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Cross Country Healthcare and 5 mentions for TTEC. TTEC's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Cross Country Healthcare's score of 0.39 indicating that TTEC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
96.0% of Cross Country Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.0% of TTEC shares are held by institutional investors. 4.9% of Cross Country Healthcare shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 59.3% of TTEC 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 has a net margin of 3.60% compared to TTEC's net margin of 0.34%. Cross Country Healthcare's return on equity of 16.93% beat TTEC's return on equity.
Cross Country Healthcare presently has a consensus target price of $21.67, suggesting a potential upside of 21.04%. TTEC has a consensus target price of $22.00, suggesting a potential upside of 201.37%. Given TTEC's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe TTEC is more favorable than Cross Country Healthcare.
Cross Country Healthcare has higher earnings, but lower revenue than TTEC. Cross Country Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TTEC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cross Country Healthcare has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TTEC has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Cross Country Healthcare received 144 more outperform votes than TTEC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.04% of users gave Cross Country Healthcare an outperform vote while only 60.60% of users gave TTEC an outperform vote.
Summary
Cross Country Healthcare beats TTEC on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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