BBSI vs. KELYA, KFRC, TBI, CCRN, TTEC, NRC, ARIS, TWKS, PCT, and MDRX
Should you be buying Barrett Business Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barrett Business Services include Kelly Services (KELYA), Kforce (KFRC), TrueBlue (TBI), Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN), TTEC (TTEC), National Research (NRC), Aris Water Solutions (ARIS), Thoughtworks (TWKS), PureCycle Technologies (PCT), and Veradigm (MDRX). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Kelly Services (NASDAQ:KELYA) and Barrett Business Services (NASDAQ:BBSI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.
In the previous week, Kelly Services had 5 more articles in the media than Barrett Business Services. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Kelly Services and 7 mentions for Barrett Business Services. Kelly Services' average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Barrett Business Services' score of -0.32 indicating that Barrett Business Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Barrett Business Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kelly Services. Barrett Business Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kelly Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
76.3% of Kelly Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.8% of Barrett Business Services shares are held by institutional investors. 3.5% of Kelly Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Barrett Business Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Barrett Business Services has a net margin of 4.73% compared to Barrett Business Services' net margin of 0.75%. Kelly Services' return on equity of 27.69% beat Barrett Business Services' return on equity.
Kelly Services has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barrett Business Services has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Kelly Services presently has a consensus price target of $26.00, suggesting a potential upside of 10.36%. Barrett Business Services has a consensus price target of $141.00, suggesting a potential upside of 14.43%. Given Kelly Services' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Barrett Business Services is more favorable than Kelly Services.
Kelly Services pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Barrett Business Services pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Kelly Services pays out 30.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Barrett Business Services pays out 16.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Barrett Business Services received 113 more outperform votes than Kelly Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.63% of users gave Barrett Business Services an outperform vote while only 55.56% of users gave Kelly Services an outperform vote.
Summary
Barrett Business Services beats Kelly Services on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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