BBSI vs. CCRN, HQI, SRT, DLHC, KFY, KFRC, KELYA, HSII, TBI, and HSON
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), HireQuest (HQI), Startek (SRT), DLH (DLHC), Korn Ferry (KFY), Kforce (KFRC), Kelly Services (KELYA), Heidrick & Struggles International (HSII), TrueBlue (TBI), and Hudson Global (HSON). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Barrett Business Services (NASDAQ:BBSI) and Cross Country Healthcare (NASDAQ:CCRN) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
Barrett Business Services presently has a consensus target price of $140.50, suggesting a potential upside of 7.67%. Cross Country Healthcare has a consensus target price of $20.83, suggesting a potential upside of 41.72%. Given Cross Country Healthcare's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cross Country Healthcare is more favorable than Barrett Business Services.
Barrett Business Services has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cross Country Healthcare has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
86.8% of Barrett Business Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.0% of Cross Country Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. 3.7% of Barrett Business Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.9% of Cross Country Healthcare shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Barrett Business Services had 2 more articles in the media than Cross Country Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Barrett Business Services and 3 mentions for Cross Country Healthcare. Cross Country Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Barrett Business Services' score of 0.52 indicating that Cross Country Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news 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.
Barrett Business Services has a net margin of 4.60% compared to Cross Country Healthcare's net margin of 2.58%. Barrett Business Services' return on equity of 26.58% beat Cross Country Healthcare's return on equity.
Cross Country Healthcare received 135 more outperform votes than Barrett Business Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.89% of users gave Barrett Business Services an outperform vote while only 65.14% of users gave Cross Country Healthcare an outperform vote.
Summary
Barrett Business Services and Cross Country Healthcare tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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