TTEC vs. KFRC, CCRN, HHR, KELYA, BBSI, TBI, MAN, NSP, PAYO, and HURN
Should you be buying TTEC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TTEC include Kforce (KFRC), Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN), HeadHunter Group (HHR), Kelly Services (KELYA), Barrett Business Services (BBSI), TrueBlue (TBI), ManpowerGroup (MAN), Insperity (NSP), Payoneer Global (PAYO), and Huron Consulting Group (HURN). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
TTEC vs.
TTEC (NASDAQ:TTEC) and Kforce (NASDAQ:KFRC) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, media sentiment and profitability.
TTEC presently has a consensus target price of $53.57, suggesting a potential upside of 66.58%. Kforce has a consensus target price of $65.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.28%. Given TTEC's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe TTEC is more favorable than Kforce.
TTEC has higher revenue and earnings than Kforce. Kforce 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, Kforce had 1 more articles in the media than TTEC. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Kforce and 4 mentions for TTEC. Kforce's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat TTEC's score of 0.54 indicating that Kforce is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kforce has a net margin of 4.26% compared to TTEC's net margin of 3.56%. Kforce's return on equity of 42.70% beat TTEC's return on equity.
Kforce received 89 more outperform votes than TTEC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.12% of users gave Kforce an outperform vote while only 61.54% of users gave TTEC an outperform vote.
TTEC pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Kforce pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. TTEC pays out 55.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Kforce pays out 40.4% 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.
TTEC has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kforce has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
36.9% of TTEC shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.1% of Kforce shares are held by institutional investors. 59.3% of TTEC shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Kforce shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Kforce beats TTEC on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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