Contrasting Cross Country Healthcare (NASDAQ:CCRN) and Bumrungrad Hospital Public (OTC:BUHPF)

Cross Country Healthcare (NASDAQ:CCRN) and Bumrungrad Hospital Public (OTC:BUHPF) are both medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Cross Country Healthcare and Bumrungrad Hospital Public, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cross Country Healthcare	0	5	3	0	2.38
Bumrungrad Hospital Public	0	0	1	0	3.00

Cross Country Healthcare presently has a consensus target price of $21.67, indicating a potential upside of 21.72%. Given Cross Country Healthcare’s higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Cross Country Healthcare is more favorable than Bumrungrad Hospital Public.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Cross Country Healthcare and Bumrungrad Hospital Public’s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cross Country Healthcare	$2.02 billion	0.31	$72.63 million	$2.03	8.77
Bumrungrad Hospital Public	N/A	N/A	N/A	C$3.08	1.97

Cross Country Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than Bumrungrad Hospital Public. Bumrungrad Hospital Public is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cross Country Healthcare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Cross Country Healthcare and Bumrungrad Hospital Public’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cross Country Healthcare	3.60%	16.93%	10.26%
Bumrungrad Hospital Public	N/A	N/A	N/A

Insider & Institutional Ownership

96.0% of Cross Country Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.3% of Bumrungrad Hospital Public shares are held by institutional investors. 5.5% of Cross Country Healthcare shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Cross Country Healthcare beats Bumrungrad Hospital Public on 9 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Cross Country Healthcare

Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. provides talent management and other consultative services for healthcare clients in the United States. The company's Nurse and Allied Staffing segment provides traditional staffing, recruiting, and value-added total talent solutions, including temporary and permanent placement of travel and local nurse and, allied professionals; temporary placement of healthcare leaders within nursing, allied, physician, and human resources; vendor neutral and managed services programs; education healthcare services; in-home care services; and outsourcing services. It also offers staffing solutions for registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, certified nurse assistants, practitioners, pharmacists, and other allied professionals on per diem and short-term assignments; and clinical and non-clinical professionals on long-term contract assignments, as well as workforce solutions, including MSP, VMS, in- home care, education healthcare, RPO, project management, and other outsourcing and consultative services. This segment provides retained search services for healthcare professionals, as well as contingent search and recruitment process outsourcing services. It serves public and private acute care and non-acute care hospitals, government facilities, local and national healthcare plans, managed care providers, public and charter schools, outpatient clinics, ambulatory care facilities, physician practice groups, and other healthcare providers under the Cross Country brand. Its Physician Staffing segment provides physicians in various specialties, certified registered nurse anesthetists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants under the Cross Country Locums brand on temporary assignments. It serves various healthcare facilities, such as acute and non-acute care facilities, medical group practices, government facilities, and managed care organizations. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.

About Bumrungrad Hospital Public

Bumrungrad Hospital Public Company Limited owns and operates healthcare-related entities in Thailand and internationally. It operates allergy, arrhythmia, behavioral health, breast, home service, heart valve, robotic surgery, rehabilitation, children's, colorectal surgery, complex coronary artery intervention, cornea transplant, dental, diagnostic, dialysis, digestive disease, ear, nose, throat, emergency, endocrinology, diabetes, expatriate liaison, eye, fertility, gastrointestinal motility, health screening, holistic wound care, horizon regional cancer, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, nephrology, neuroscience, orthopedics, perinatal, plastic surgery, pulmonary, refractive surgery, robotic scoliosis, skin, sports medicine and joint, surgery, travel medicine, urology, scientific wellness, skin and aesthetic, and women's centers. The company also operates breastfeeding, Yangon, COVID-19 recovery, comprehensive sleep, IVF, hearing and balance, medical, memory, new life healthy aging, Parkinson's disease and movement disorders, pride, surgery, vaccine clinics. In addition, it provides spine institute, diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine, esperance, heart institute, intensive care unit, neurocritical care, nutrition services, pharmacy services, and preventive genomics and integrative medicine services. Further, the company offers clinical research; hospital consulting and management; healthcare personnel development and training; healthcare referral; and digital platform services. Additionally, it is involved in the distribution of pharmaceutical and medical goods in specialized stores; development of software for healthcare services; holding of real estate assets; and manufacture and sale of vitamin supplements. Bumrungrad Hospital Public Company Limited was founded in 1975 and is based in Bangkok, Thailand.