Critical Comparison: Ryman Healthcare (OTCMKTS:RYHTY) vs. AMN Healthcare Services (NYSE:AMN)

Ryman Healthcare (OTCMKTS:RYHTY) and AMN Healthcare Services (NYSE:AMN) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation and risk.

Volatility & Risk

Ryman Healthcare has a beta of 0.59, meaning that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AMN Healthcare Services has a beta of 0.23, meaning that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Ryman Healthcare and AMN Healthcare Services, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Ryman Healthcare	0	0	0	0	0.00
AMN Healthcare Services	2	3	4	0	2.22

AMN Healthcare Services has a consensus target price of $22.64, suggesting a potential upside of 6.35%. Given AMN Healthcare Services’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe AMN Healthcare Services is more favorable than Ryman Healthcare.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Ryman Healthcare and AMN Healthcare Services”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Ryman Healthcare	$451.64 million	2.14	-$259.39 million	N/A	N/A
AMN Healthcare Services	$2.73 billion	0.30	-$95.70 million	($2.49)	-8.55

AMN Healthcare Services has higher revenue and earnings than Ryman Healthcare.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

99.2% of AMN Healthcare Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of AMN Healthcare Services shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Ryman Healthcare	N/A	N/A	N/A
AMN Healthcare Services	-3.51%	8.05%	2.38%

Summary

AMN Healthcare Services beats Ryman Healthcare on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Ryman Healthcare

Ryman Healthcare Limited develops, owns, and operates integrated retirement villages, rest homes, and hospitals for the elderly in New Zealand and Australia. The company's villages provide a range of retirement living and care options, such as independent townhouses and apartments, and serviced apartments, as well as a care center, which offers rest homes, hospitals, dementia-level care, and respite and day care services. Its villages also provide all-weather bowling green, indoor heated swimming pool and spa, gym, internal atrium, beauty and hair salons, library, dining area, bar, lounges, croquet laws, shops, and movie theatre facilities. The company owns and operates retirement village units and care units. The company was founded in 1984 and is based in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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.