CCRN vs. TTEC, TBI, KELYA, BBSI, HQI, RCMT, DLHC, 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), TrueBlue (TBI), Kelly Services (KELYA), Barrett Business Services (BBSI), HireQuest (HQI), RCM Technologies (RCMT), DLH (DLHC), BGSF (BGSF), Hudson Global (HSON), and Kforce (KFRC). These companies are all part of the "help supply services" industry.
Cross Country Healthcare (NASDAQ:CCRN) and TTEC (NASDAQ:TTEC) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, risk and community ranking.
Cross Country Healthcare has a net margin of 2.58% compared to TTEC's net margin of -0.52%. Cross Country Healthcare's return on equity of 11.69% beat TTEC's return on equity.
Cross Country Healthcare has higher earnings, but lower revenue than TTEC. TTEC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cross Country Healthcare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
96.0% of Cross Country Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.0% of TTEC shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.9% of Cross Country Healthcare shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 59.3% of TTEC shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Cross Country Healthcare received 145 more outperform votes than TTEC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.14% of users gave Cross Country Healthcare an outperform vote while only 60.56% of users gave TTEC an outperform vote.
Cross Country Healthcare has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TTEC has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cross Country Healthcare currently has a consensus target price of $20.83, suggesting a potential upside of 42.99%. TTEC has a consensus target price of $15.60, suggesting a potential upside of 114.29%. Given TTEC's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe TTEC is more favorable than Cross Country Healthcare.
In the previous week, TTEC had 3 more articles in the media than Cross Country Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for TTEC and 2 mentions for Cross Country Healthcare. TTEC's average media sentiment score of -0.38 beat Cross Country Healthcare's score of -0.64 indicating that TTEC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Cross Country Healthcare beats TTEC on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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