Solventum (NYSE:SOLV – Get Free Report) and AMN Healthcare Services (NYSE:AMN – Get Free Report) are both medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, risk, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Profitability
This table compares Solventum and AMN Healthcare Services’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Solventum | 17.33% | 23.51% | 7.63% |
| AMN Healthcare Services | -0.95% | 18.01% | 5.19% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Solventum and AMN Healthcare Services, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Solventum | 1 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 2.50 |
| AMN Healthcare Services | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2.22 |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
99.2% of AMN Healthcare Services shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Solventum 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 endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Solventum 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 | |
| Solventum | $8.33 billion | 1.71 | $1.56 billion | $8.16 | 10.10 |
| AMN Healthcare Services | $2.73 billion | 0.43 | -$95.70 million | ($0.87) | -35.11 |
Solventum has higher revenue and earnings than AMN Healthcare Services. AMN Healthcare Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Solventum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Volatility and Risk
Solventum has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AMN Healthcare Services has a beta of 0.44, suggesting that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Solventum beats AMN Healthcare Services on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Solventum
Solventum Corporation, a healthcare company, engages in the developing, manufacturing, and commercializing a portfolio of solutions to address critical customer and patient needs. It operates through four segments: Medsurg, Dental Solutions, Health Information Systems, and Purification and Filtration. The Medsurg segment is a provider of solutions including advanced wound care, I.V. site management, sterilization assurance, temperature management, surgical supplies, stethoscopes, and medical electrodes. The Dental Solutions segment provides a comprehensive suite of dental and orthodontic products including brackets, aligners, restorative cements, and bonding agents. The Health Information Systems provides software solutions including computer-assisted, physician documentation, direct-to-bill and coding automation, classification methodologies, speech, recognition, and data visualization platforms. The Purification and Filtration segment provides purification and filtration technologies including filters, purifiers, cartridges, and membranes. The company was incorporated in 2023 and is based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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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