AMN Healthcare Services Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-Q)

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May 07, 2010
AMN Healthcare Services Inc. (AHS, Financial) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2010-03-31.

Amn Healthcare Services Inc. has a market cap of $278.1 million; its shares were traded at around $8.52 with a P/E ratio of 27.4 and P/S ratio of 0.4. AHS is in the portfolios of Manning & Napier Advisors, Inc, Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies LLC, Chuck Royce of Royce& Associates.

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For the three months ended March 31, 2010, we recorded revenue of $143.3 million, as compared to revenue of $249.6 million for the same period last year. We recorded net income of $0.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2010, as compared to a net loss of $(121.8) million for the same period last year.

Locum tenens staffing segment revenue decreased 19% to $60.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2010 from $74.8 million for the same period in 2009. Of the $14.4 million decrease, $13.4 million was attributable to a decrease in the number of days filled by healthcare professionals during the three months ended March 31, 2010 and $1.0 million was attributable to the net effect of an increasing percentage of our days filled being attributable to the lower bill rate specialties, partially offset by an increase in the average daily rate billed to clients.

Nurse and allied healthcare staffing segment cost of revenue decreased 56% to $55.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2010 from $126.2 million for the same period in 2009. Of the $70.8 million decrease, $68.6 million was attributable to the decrease in the average number of temporary healthcare professionals on assignment and $2.2 million was attributable to a decrease in direct costs per healthcare professional.

Locum tenens staffing segment cost of revenue decreased 19% to $44.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2010 from $55.2 million for the same period in 2009. Of the $10.6 million decrease, $9.8 million was attributable to a decrease in the number of days filled by healthcare professionals during the three months ended March 31, 2010, and $0.8 million was attributable to the net of effect of an increasing percentage of our days filled being attributable to the lower pay rate specialties, partially offset by an increase in the average daily rate paid to the healthcare professionals.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses. Selling, general and administrative expenses decreased 36% to $32.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2010 from $50.1 million for the same period in 2009. The decrease was primarily due to lower employee and office related expenses as a result of cost-reduction actions taken throughout 2009. Included in selling, general and administrative expenses is unallocated corporate overhead, which, excluding stock-based compensation expense, were $5.7 million and $6.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively. Excluding unallocated corporate overhead and stock-based compensation expense, selling, general and administrative expenses by reportable segment were $11.1 million and $22.9 million for nurse and allied healthcare staffing, $10.3 million and $14.9 million for locum tenens staffing and $2.5 million and $3.5 million for physician permanent placement services, for the three months ended March 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively.

Impairment and Restructuring Charges. No impairment and restructuring charges were incurred during the three months ended March 31, 2010, as compared to a $178.6 million of impairment and restructuring charges recorded for the same period in 2009. Of the $178.6 million of impairment and restructuring charges recorded during the three months ended March 31, 2009, $175.7 million was impairment charges related to goodwill and indefinite-lived intangibles and $2.9 million was restructuring charges.

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