BGSF vs. HQI, RCMT, DLHC, HSON, STAF, RHI, ASGN, NSP, MAN, and AMN
Should you be buying BGSF stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BGSF include HireQuest (HQI), RCM Technologies (RCMT), DLH (DLHC), Hudson Global (HSON), Staffing 360 Solutions (STAF), Robert Half (RHI), ASGN (ASGN), Insperity (NSP), ManpowerGroup (MAN), and AMN Healthcare Services (AMN). These companies are all part of the "help supply services" industry.
BGSF (NYSE:BGSF) and HireQuest (NASDAQ:HQI) 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 institutional ownership, risk, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
HireQuest has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BGSF. BGSF is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HireQuest, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BGSF received 25 more outperform votes than HireQuest when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.11% of users gave HireQuest an outperform vote while only 61.02% of users gave BGSF an outperform vote.
HireQuest has a net margin of 14.06% compared to BGSF's net margin of 1.78%. BGSF's return on equity of 9.74% beat HireQuest's return on equity.
HireQuest has a consensus price target of $19.50, suggesting a potential upside of 48.97%. Given HireQuest's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe HireQuest is more favorable than BGSF.
BGSF has a beta of 1.71, indicating that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HireQuest has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, HireQuest had 5 more articles in the media than BGSF. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for HireQuest and 4 mentions for BGSF. BGSF's average media sentiment score of 1.52 beat HireQuest's score of 0.99 indicating that BGSF is being referred to more favorably in the media.
37.2% of BGSF shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.0% of HireQuest shares are held by institutional investors. 7.4% of BGSF shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 45.8% of HireQuest shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
BGSF pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.0%. HireQuest pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. BGSF pays out 115.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. HireQuest pays out 63.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
HireQuest beats BGSF on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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