TTEC vs. TBI, HQI, DLHC, RCMT, BGSF, CCRN, BBSI, KELYA, KFRC, and ADTN
Should you be buying TTEC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TTEC include TrueBlue (TBI), HireQuest (HQI), DLH (DLHC), RCM Technologies (RCMT), BGSF (BGSF), Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN), Barrett Business Services (BBSI), Kelly Services (KELYA), Kforce (KFRC), and ADTRAN (ADTN).
TrueBlue (NYSE:TBI) and TTEC (NASDAQ:TTEC) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
97.2% of TrueBlue shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.0% of TTEC shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of TrueBlue shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 59.3% of TTEC shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
TTEC has a net margin of 0.34% compared to TTEC's net margin of -0.74%. TrueBlue's return on equity of 13.74% beat TTEC's return on equity.
TTEC has higher revenue and earnings than TrueBlue. TrueBlue is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TTEC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TrueBlue has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TTEC has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
TrueBlue presently has a consensus price target of $19.00, suggesting a potential upside of 79.41%. TTEC has a consensus price target of $17.50, suggesting a potential upside of 121.80%. Given TrueBlue's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe TTEC is more favorable than TrueBlue.
In the previous week, TrueBlue had 3 more articles in the media than TTEC. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for TrueBlue and 3 mentions for TTEC. TrueBlue's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat TTEC's score of 0.00 indicating that TTEC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
TrueBlue received 6 more outperform votes than TTEC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.91% of users gave TrueBlue an outperform vote while only 60.60% of users gave TTEC an outperform vote.
Summary
TTEC beats TrueBlue on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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