BBSI vs. KFY, ASGN, NSP, MAN, KFRC, HSII, KELYA, TBI, HSON, and TW
Should you be buying Barrett Business Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barrett Business Services include Korn Ferry (KFY), ASGN (ASGN), Insperity (NSP), ManpowerGroup (MAN), Kforce (KFRC), Heidrick & Struggles International (HSII), Kelly Services (KELYA), TrueBlue (TBI), Hudson Global (HSON), and Tradeweb Markets (TW). These companies are all part of the "human resource & employment services" industry.
Barrett Business Services vs.
Korn Ferry (NYSE:KFY) and Barrett Business Services (NASDAQ:BBSI) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, risk and earnings.
98.8% of Korn Ferry shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.8% of Barrett Business Services shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Korn Ferry shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Barrett Business Services shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Korn Ferry has a net margin of 9.03% compared to Barrett Business Services' net margin of 4.55%. Barrett Business Services' return on equity of 25.28% beat Korn Ferry's return on equity.
Korn Ferry has higher revenue and earnings than Barrett Business Services. Korn Ferry 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.
Korn Ferry received 2 more outperform votes than Barrett Business Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.20% of users gave Barrett Business Services an outperform vote while only 55.06% of users gave Korn Ferry an outperform vote.
Korn Ferry presently has a consensus target price of $77.00, suggesting a potential upside of 19.70%. Barrett Business Services has a consensus target price of $41.67, suggesting a potential upside of 3.80%. Given Korn Ferry's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Korn Ferry is more favorable than Barrett Business Services.
Korn Ferry pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Barrett Business Services pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Korn Ferry pays out 31.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Barrett Business Services pays out 16.9% 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.
Korn Ferry has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barrett Business Services has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Barrett Business Services had 1 more articles in the media than Korn Ferry. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Barrett Business Services and 1 mentions for Korn Ferry. Barrett Business Services' average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Korn Ferry's score of 0.00 indicating that Barrett Business Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Korn Ferry beats Barrett Business Services on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:BBSI) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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