KFRC vs. KELYA, BBSI, TBI, AMN, MAN, NSP, CCRN, TTEC, MAX, and MEG
Should you be buying Kforce stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kforce include Kelly Services (KELYA), Barrett Business Services (BBSI), TrueBlue (TBI), AMN Healthcare Services (AMN), ManpowerGroup (MAN), Insperity (NSP), Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN), TTEC (TTEC), MediaAlpha (MAX), and Montrose Environmental Group (MEG).
Kelly Services (NASDAQ:KELYA) and Kforce (NASDAQ:KFRC) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Kforce received 196 more outperform votes than Kelly Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.18% of users gave Kforce an outperform vote while only 55.56% of users gave Kelly Services an outperform vote.
Kelly Services currently has a consensus target price of $26.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.66%. Kforce has a consensus target price of $68.33, suggesting a potential upside of 6.77%. Given Kforce's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Kelly Services is more favorable than Kforce.
76.3% of Kelly Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.8% of Kforce shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of Kelly Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Kforce shares are owned by 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.
Kforce has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kelly Services. Kforce is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kelly Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kforce has a net margin of 3.99% compared to Kforce's net margin of 0.75%. Kelly Services' return on equity of 38.24% beat Kforce's return on equity.
In the previous week, Kelly Services had 5 more articles in the media than Kforce. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Kelly Services and 2 mentions for Kforce. Kelly Services' average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Kforce's score of 0.07 indicating that Kforce is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kelly Services pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Kforce pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Kelly Services pays out 30.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kforce pays out 48.6% 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. Kforce has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years. Kforce is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Kelly Services has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kforce has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Kforce beats Kelly Services on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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