BBSI vs. KELYA, KFRC, TBI, CCRN, TTEC, MDRX, VOCL, HCSG, ML, and CNDT
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), Veradigm (MDRX), Creatd (VOCL), Healthcare Services Group (HCSG), MoneyLion (ML), and Conduent (CNDT). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Barrett Business Services (NASDAQ:BBSI) and Kelly Services (NASDAQ:KELYA) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, community ranking, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Barrett Business Services pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Kelly Services pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Barrett Business Services pays out 16.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kelly Services pays out 21.6% 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 presently has a consensus target price of $141.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.31%. Kelly Services has a consensus target price of $29.00, indicating a potential upside of 27.64%. Given Kelly Services' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Kelly Services is more favorable than Barrett Business Services.
Barrett Business Services has a net margin of 4.60% compared to Kelly Services' net margin of 1.11%. Barrett Business Services' return on equity of 26.58% beat Kelly Services' return on equity.
Barrett Business Services received 116 more outperform votes than Kelly Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.89% of users gave Barrett Business Services an outperform vote while only 55.67% of users gave Kelly Services an outperform vote.
86.8% of Barrett Business Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.3% of Kelly Services shares are held by institutional investors. 3.7% of Barrett Business Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of Kelly Services shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Barrett Business Services has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Kelly Services. Kelly Services 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.
In the previous week, Kelly Services had 22 more articles in the media than Barrett Business Services. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Kelly Services and 1 mentions for Barrett Business Services. Kelly Services' average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Barrett Business Services' score of 0.80 indicating that Kelly Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Barrett Business Services has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kelly Services has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Barrett Business Services beats Kelly Services on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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