AMN Healthcare Services (NYSE:AMN – Get Free Report) and Avantor (NYSE:AVTR – Get Free Report) are both medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
99.2% of AMN Healthcare Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.1% of Avantor shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of AMN Healthcare Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Avantor shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares AMN Healthcare Services and Avantor”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| AMN Healthcare Services | $2.73 billion | 0.45 | -$95.70 million | ($0.87) | -36.54 |
| Avantor | $6.55 billion | 0.96 | -$530.20 million | ($0.81) | -11.31 |
AMN Healthcare Services has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Avantor. AMN Healthcare Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Avantor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Risk & Volatility
AMN Healthcare Services has a beta of 0.44, suggesting that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avantor has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for AMN Healthcare Services and Avantor, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| AMN Healthcare Services | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2.22 |
| Avantor | 3 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1.94 |
AMN Healthcare Services presently has a consensus price target of $25.29, suggesting a potential downside of 20.46%. Avantor has a consensus price target of $10.57, suggesting a potential upside of 15.29%. Given Avantor’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Avantor is more favorable than AMN Healthcare Services.
Profitability
This table compares AMN Healthcare Services and Avantor’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| AMN Healthcare Services | -0.95% | 18.01% | 5.19% |
| Avantor | -8.42% | 9.95% | 4.78% |
Summary
AMN Healthcare Services beats Avantor on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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.
About Avantor
Avantor, Inc. engages in the provision of mission-critical products and services to customers in the biopharma, healthcare, education and government, advanced technologies, and applied materials industries in the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. The company offers materials and consumables, such as purity chemicals and reagents, lab products and supplies, formulated silicone materials, customized excipients, customized single-use assemblies, process chromatography resins and columns, analytical sample prep kits, education and microbiology products, clinical trial kits, peristaltic pumps, and fluid handling tips. It also provides equipment and instrumentation products, including filtration systems, virus inactivation systems, incubators, analytical instruments, evaporators, ultra-low-temperature freezers, biological safety cabinets, and critical environment supplies. In addition, the company offers services and specialty procurements comprising onsite lab and production, clinical, equipment, procurement and sourcing, and biopharmaceutical material scale-up and development services. Further, it provides scientific research support services, such as DNA extraction, bioreactor servicing, clinical and biorepository, and compound management services. The company was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania.
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