Comparing GMR Solutions (NYSE:GMRS) and AMN Healthcare Services (NYSE:AMN)

AMN Healthcare Services (NYSE:AMN) and GMR Solutions (NYSE:GMRS) are both small-cap healthcare companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares AMN Healthcare Services and GMR Solutions”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
AMN Healthcare Services	$2.73 billion	0.50	-$95.70 million	$2.68	13.17
GMR Solutions	$5.88 billion	0.10	-$84.27 million	($1.56)	-6.72

GMR Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than AMN Healthcare Services. GMR Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AMN Healthcare Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for AMN Healthcare Services and GMR Solutions, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
AMN Healthcare Services	0	4	4	0	2.50
GMR Solutions	1	2	6	1	2.70

AMN Healthcare Services presently has a consensus target price of $36.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.01%. GMR Solutions has a consensus target price of $18.78, suggesting a potential upside of 79.18%. Given GMR Solutions’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe GMR Solutions is more favorable than AMN Healthcare Services.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
AMN Healthcare Services	3.06%	19.92%	5.93%
GMR Solutions	N/A	N/A	N/A

Insider and Institutional Ownership

99.2% of AMN Healthcare Services shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of AMN Healthcare Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

AMN Healthcare Services beats GMR Solutions 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 GMR Solutions

GMR Solutions Inc. is a provider of emergency medical services delivering EMS and other essential out-of-hospital care in rural and urban communities. GMR Solutions Inc. is based in Lewisville, Texas.