BGSF vs. RCMT, HSON, DLHC, HQI, TBI, TTEC, XBP, SKYX, LUNA, and SHIM
Should you be buying BGSF stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BGSF include RCM Technologies (RCMT), Hudson Global (HSON), DLH (DLHC), HireQuest (HQI), TrueBlue (TBI), TTEC (TTEC), XBP Europe (XBP), SKYX Platforms (SKYX), Luna Innovations (LUNA), and Shimmick (SHIM). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
BGSF (NYSE:BGSF) and RCM Technologies (NASDAQ:RCMT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
In the previous week, RCM Technologies had 3 more articles in the media than BGSF. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for RCM Technologies and 5 mentions for BGSF. RCM Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat BGSF's score of 0.43 indicating that RCM Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
RCM Technologies received 116 more outperform votes than BGSF when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.53% of users gave RCM Technologies an outperform vote while only 60.34% of users gave BGSF an outperform vote.
RCM Technologies has a consensus target price of $27.50, suggesting a potential upside of 25.11%. Given RCM Technologies' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe RCM Technologies is more favorable than BGSF.
RCM Technologies has a net margin of 6.32% compared to BGSF's net margin of 1.78%. RCM Technologies' return on equity of 74.07% beat BGSF's return on equity.
BGSF has a beta of 1.71, meaning that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RCM Technologies has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
RCM Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BGSF. RCM Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BGSF, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
37.2% of BGSF shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.2% of RCM Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 7.4% of BGSF shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.3% of RCM Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
RCM Technologies beats BGSF on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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