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

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

Profitability

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

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

Analyst Ratings

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

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

GMR Solutions currently has a consensus price target of $18.78, indicating a potential upside of 77.65%. AMN Healthcare Services has a consensus price target of $36.50, indicating a potential upside of 0.56%. Given GMR Solutions’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe GMR Solutions is more favorable than AMN Healthcare Services.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares GMR Solutions and AMN Healthcare Services”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
GMR Solutions	N/A	N/A	N/A	($1.56)	-6.78
AMN Healthcare Services	$3.43 billion	0.41	-$95.70 million	$2.68	13.54

GMR Solutions has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

99.2% of AMN Healthcare Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of AMN Healthcare Services shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

AMN Healthcare Services beats GMR Solutions on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

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.