BGSF vs. HQI, HSON, DLHC, RCMT, HAO, MFH, ALAR, DHCA, RR, and SKYX
Should you be buying BGSF stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BGSF include HireQuest (HQI), Hudson Global (HSON), DLH (DLHC), RCM Technologies (RCMT), Haoxi Health Technology (HAO), Mercurity Fintech (MFH), Alarum Technologies (ALAR), DHC Acquisition (DHCA), Richtech Robotics (RR), and SKYX Platforms (SKYX). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
BGSF (NYSE:BGSF) and HireQuest (NASDAQ:HQI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
37.7% of BGSF shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.1% of HireQuest shares are held by institutional investors. 7.4% of BGSF shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 45.8% of HireQuest shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
HireQuest has a net margin of 24.44% compared to BGSF's net margin of -3.26%. HireQuest's return on equity of 14.14% beat BGSF's return on equity.
BGSF pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. HireQuest pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. BGSF pays out -63.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HireQuest pays out 36.9% 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. BGSF is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
BGSF has higher revenue and earnings than HireQuest. BGSF is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HireQuest, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BGSF has a beta of 1.68, indicating that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HireQuest has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
HireQuest has a consensus target price of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 71.29%. Given HireQuest's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe HireQuest is more favorable than BGSF.
In the previous week, BGSF had 12 more articles in the media than HireQuest. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for BGSF and 3 mentions for HireQuest. HireQuest's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat BGSF's score of 0.43 indicating that HireQuest is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BGSF received 25 more outperform votes than HireQuest when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.18% of users gave BGSF an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave HireQuest an outperform vote.
Summary
HireQuest beats BGSF on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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