TBI vs. KELYA, HSON, TW, RHI, ASGN, KFY, NSP, MAN, BBSI, and KFRC
Should you be buying TrueBlue stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TrueBlue include Kelly Services (KELYA), Hudson Global (HSON), Tradeweb Markets (TW), Robert Half (RHI), ASGN (ASGN), Korn Ferry (KFY), Insperity (NSP), ManpowerGroup (MAN), Barrett Business Services (BBSI), and Kforce (KFRC). These companies are all part of the "human resource & employment services" industry.
TrueBlue vs.
TrueBlue (NYSE:TBI) and Kelly Services (NASDAQ:KELYA) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, dividends, community ranking and profitability.
TrueBlue has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kelly Services has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
TrueBlue received 114 more outperform votes than Kelly Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.78% of users gave TrueBlue an outperform vote while only 55.98% of users gave Kelly Services an outperform vote.
97.2% of TrueBlue shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.3% of Kelly Services shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of TrueBlue shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of Kelly Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Kelly Services has a net margin of 0.97% compared to TrueBlue's net margin of -6.97%. Kelly Services' return on equity of 6.93% beat TrueBlue's return on equity.
Kelly Services has higher revenue and earnings than TrueBlue. TrueBlue is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kelly Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TrueBlue presently has a consensus target price of $11.50, suggesting a potential upside of 47.53%. Kelly Services has a consensus target price of $25.00, suggesting a potential upside of 74.09%. Given Kelly Services' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Kelly Services is more favorable than TrueBlue.
In the previous week, TrueBlue had 2 more articles in the media than Kelly Services. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for TrueBlue and 0 mentions for Kelly Services. TrueBlue's average media sentiment score of 1.83 beat Kelly Services' score of 0.00 indicating that TrueBlue is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
TrueBlue beats Kelly Services on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:TBI) was last updated on 1/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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