TTEC vs. TBI, HQI, DLHC, RCMT, BGSF, CCRN, BBSI, KELYA, KFRC, and ADTN
Should you be buying TTEC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TTEC include TrueBlue (TBI), HireQuest (HQI), DLH (DLHC), RCM Technologies (RCMT), BGSF (BGSF), Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN), Barrett Business Services (BBSI), Kelly Services (KELYA), Kforce (KFRC), and ADTRAN (ADTN).
TrueBlue (NYSE:TBI) and TTEC (NASDAQ:TTEC) 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 institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and risk.
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.
TrueBlue presently has a consensus target price of $19.00, indicating a potential upside of 79.75%. TTEC has a consensus target price of $17.50, indicating a potential upside of 128.46%. Given TrueBlue's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe TTEC is more favorable than TrueBlue.
TTEC has a net margin of 0.34% compared to TTEC's net margin of -0.74%. TrueBlue's return on equity of 13.74% beat TTEC's return on equity.
97.2% of TrueBlue shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.0% of TTEC shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.0% of TrueBlue shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 59.3% of TTEC shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, TrueBlue and TrueBlue both had 3 articles in the media. TrueBlue's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat TTEC's score of 0.00 indicating that TTEC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
TrueBlue received 6 more outperform votes than TTEC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.91% of users gave TrueBlue an outperform vote while only 60.60% of users gave TTEC an outperform vote.
TrueBlue has a beta of 1.51, suggesting that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TTEC has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its stock price is 6% 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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