TTEC vs. TBI, SRT, KELYA, BBSI, CSGS, EVRI, CASS, INOD, STCN, and KFRC
Should you be buying TTEC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TTEC include TrueBlue (TBI), Startek (SRT), Kelly Services (KELYA), Barrett Business Services (BBSI), CSG Systems International (CSGS), Everi (EVRI), Cass Information Systems (CASS), Innodata (INOD), Steel Connect (STCN), and Kforce (KFRC).
TTEC (NASDAQ:TTEC) and TrueBlue (NYSE:TBI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.
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.
In the previous week, TTEC had 5 more articles in the media than TrueBlue. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for TTEC and 2 mentions for TrueBlue. TTEC's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat TrueBlue's score of 0.00 indicating that TTEC is being referred to more favorably in the media.
38.0% of TTEC shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.2% of TrueBlue shares are held by institutional investors. 59.3% of TTEC shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of TrueBlue shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
TTEC has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TrueBlue has a beta of 1.51, suggesting that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
TrueBlue received 8 more outperform votes than TTEC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.12% of users gave TrueBlue an outperform vote while only 60.56% of users gave TTEC an outperform vote.
TTEC presently has a consensus price target of $15.60, suggesting a potential upside of 92.59%. TrueBlue has a consensus price target of $13.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.34%. Given TTEC's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe TTEC is more favorable than TrueBlue.
TTEC has a net margin of -0.52% compared to TrueBlue's net margin of -0.63%. TTEC's return on equity of 9.61% beat TrueBlue's return on equity.
Summary
TTEC beats TrueBlue on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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