BrightSpring Health Services (NASDAQ:BTSG – Get Free Report) and AMN Healthcare Services (NYSE:AMN – Get Free Report) are both healthcare companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
Profitability
This table compares BrightSpring Health Services and AMN Healthcare Services’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| BrightSpring Health Services | 2.55% | 16.73% | 5.24% |
| AMN Healthcare Services | 3.06% | 19.92% | 5.93% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for BrightSpring Health Services and AMN Healthcare Services, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| BrightSpring Health Services | 0 | 0 | 18 | 2 | 3.10 |
| AMN Healthcare Services | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2.22 |
Volatility and Risk
BrightSpring Health Services has a beta of 1.88, suggesting that its share price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AMN Healthcare Services has a beta of 0.4, suggesting that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares BrightSpring Health Services and AMN Healthcare Services”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| BrightSpring Health Services | $12.91 billion | 0.88 | $190.67 million | $1.66 | 34.51 |
| AMN Healthcare Services | $3.43 billion | 0.38 | -$95.70 million | $2.68 | 12.61 |
BrightSpring Health Services has higher revenue and earnings than AMN Healthcare Services. AMN Healthcare Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BrightSpring Health Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
99.2% of AMN Healthcare Services shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of BrightSpring Health Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of AMN Healthcare Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
BrightSpring Health Services beats AMN Healthcare Services on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About BrightSpring Health Services
BrightSpring Health Services, Inc. operates a home and community-based healthcare services platform in the United States. The company's platform focuses on delivering pharmacy and provider services, including clinical and supportive care in home and community settings to Medicare, Medicaid, and insured populations. It serves patients through clinical providers and pharmacists. The company was formerly known as Phoenix Parent Holdings Inc. and changed its name to BrightSpring Health Services, Inc. in May 2021. BrightSpring Health Services, Inc. was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.
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.
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