BBSI vs. KFY, ASGN, NSP, MAN, HSII, KFRC, KELYA, TBI, HSON, and TW
Should you be buying Barrett Business Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barrett Business Services include Korn Ferry (KFY), ASGN (ASGN), Insperity (NSP), ManpowerGroup (MAN), Heidrick & Struggles International (HSII), Kforce (KFRC), Kelly Services (KELYA), TrueBlue (TBI), Hudson Global (HSON), and Tradeweb Markets (TW). These companies are all part of the "human resource & employment services" industry.
Barrett Business Services vs. Its Competitors
Barrett Business Services (NASDAQ:BBSI) and Korn Ferry (NYSE:KFY) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Korn Ferry had 3 more articles in the media than Barrett Business Services. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Korn Ferry and 8 mentions for Barrett Business Services. Barrett Business Services' average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Korn Ferry's score of 0.52 indicating that Barrett Business Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
86.8% of Barrett Business Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.8% of Korn Ferry shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.1% of Barrett Business Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Korn Ferry shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Barrett Business Services has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Korn Ferry has a beta of 1.42, suggesting that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Korn Ferry has higher revenue and earnings than Barrett Business Services. Korn Ferry 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.
Korn Ferry received 2 more outperform votes than Barrett Business Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.18% of users gave Barrett Business Services an outperform vote while only 55.25% of users gave Korn Ferry an outperform vote.
Barrett Business Services pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Korn Ferry pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Barrett Business Services pays out 16.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Korn Ferry pays out 41.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Barrett Business Services has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Korn Ferry has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years. Korn Ferry is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Barrett Business Services currently has a consensus target price of $45.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.99%. Korn Ferry has a consensus target price of $77.00, suggesting a potential upside of 15.86%. Given Korn Ferry's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Korn Ferry is more favorable than Barrett Business Services.
Korn Ferry has a net margin of 9.03% compared to Barrett Business Services' net margin of 4.55%. Barrett Business Services' return on equity of 25.28% beat Korn Ferry's return on equity.
Summary
Korn Ferry beats Barrett Business Services on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:BBSI) was last updated on 6/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff