BBSI vs. CCRN, KFRC, KELYA, HSII, TBI, SRT, HQI, DLHC, HSON, and TW
Should you be buying Barrett Business Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barrett Business Services include Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN), Kforce (KFRC), Kelly Services (KELYA), Heidrick & Struggles International (HSII), TrueBlue (TBI), Startek (SRT), HireQuest (HQI), DLH (DLHC), Hudson Global (HSON), and Tradeweb Markets (TW).
Cross Country Healthcare (NASDAQ:CCRN) and Barrett Business Services (NASDAQ:BBSI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Cross Country Healthcare received 135 more outperform votes than Barrett Business Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.02% of users gave Barrett Business Services an outperform vote while only 65.14% of users gave Cross Country Healthcare an outperform vote.
Barrett Business Services has a net margin of 4.60% compared to Barrett Business Services' net margin of 2.58%. Cross Country Healthcare's return on equity of 26.58% beat Barrett Business Services' return on equity.
96.0% of Cross Country Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.8% of Barrett Business Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.9% of Cross Country Healthcare shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Barrett Business Services shares are owned 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.
Cross Country Healthcare presently has a consensus price target of $20.83, suggesting a potential upside of 41.24%. Barrett Business Services has a consensus price target of $141.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.52%. Given Barrett Business Services' higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Cross Country Healthcare is more favorable than Barrett Business Services.
In the previous week, Barrett Business Services had 2 more articles in the media than Cross Country Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Barrett Business Services and 10 mentions for Cross Country Healthcare. Barrett Business Services' average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Cross Country Healthcare's score of 0.78 indicating that Cross Country Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cross Country Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than Barrett Business Services. Cross Country Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Barrett Business Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cross Country Healthcare has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barrett Business Services has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Cross Country Healthcare and Barrett Business Services tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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