TTEC vs. TBI, HQI, RCMT, CCRN, DLHC, KELYA, BBSI, KFRC, TINV, and LSAK
Should you be buying TTEC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TTEC include TrueBlue (TBI), HireQuest (HQI), RCM Technologies (RCMT), Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN), DLH (DLHC), Kelly Services (KELYA), Barrett Business Services (BBSI), Kforce (KFRC), Tiga Acquisition (TINV), and Lesaka Technologies (LSAK). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
TTEC (NASDAQ:TTEC) and TrueBlue (NYSE:TBI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends and analyst recommendations.
38.0% of TTEC shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.2% of TrueBlue shares are held by institutional investors. 59.3% of TTEC shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of TrueBlue shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
TTEC presently has a consensus target price of $15.60, suggesting a potential upside of 139.26%. TrueBlue has a consensus target price of $13.00, suggesting a potential upside of 19.82%. Given TTEC's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe TTEC is more favorable than TrueBlue.
TTEC has a net margin of -0.52% compared to TrueBlue's net margin of -0.63%. TTEC's return on equity of 9.61% beat TrueBlue's return on equity.
TrueBlue received 7 more outperform votes than TTEC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.05% of users gave TrueBlue an outperform vote while only 60.56% of users gave TTEC an outperform vote.
TTEC has higher revenue and earnings than TrueBlue. TrueBlue is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TTEC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, TTEC and TTEC both had 2 articles in the media. TTEC's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat TrueBlue's score of 0.92 indicating that TTEC is being referred to more favorably in the media.
TTEC has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TrueBlue has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
TTEC beats TrueBlue on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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