TBI vs. BBSI, KELYA, KFRC, TTEC, HQI, DLHC, RCMT, BGSF, CCRN, and TINV
Should you be buying TrueBlue stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TrueBlue include Barrett Business Services (BBSI), Kelly Services (KELYA), Kforce (KFRC), TTEC (TTEC), HireQuest (HQI), DLH (DLHC), RCM Technologies (RCMT), BGSF (BGSF), Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN), and Tiga Acquisition (TINV). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Barrett Business Services (NASDAQ:BBSI) and TrueBlue (NYSE:TBI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking and risk.
Barrett Business Services currently has a consensus target price of $141.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.79%. TrueBlue has a consensus target price of $19.00, indicating a potential upside of 81.12%. Given Barrett Business Services' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe TrueBlue is more favorable than Barrett Business Services.
In the previous week, Barrett Business Services had 7 more articles in the media than TrueBlue. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Barrett Business Services and 2 mentions for TrueBlue. Barrett Business Services' average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat TrueBlue's score of 0.62 indicating that TrueBlue is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
TrueBlue received 1 more outperform votes than Barrett Business Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.63% of users gave Barrett Business Services an outperform vote while only 62.91% of users gave TrueBlue an outperform vote.
Barrett Business Services has a net margin of 4.73% compared to Barrett Business Services' net margin of -0.74%. TrueBlue's return on equity of 27.69% beat Barrett Business Services' return on equity.
Barrett Business Services has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TrueBlue has a beta of 1.48, suggesting that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Barrett Business Services has higher earnings, but lower revenue than TrueBlue. TrueBlue 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.
86.8% of Barrett Business Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.2% of TrueBlue shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of Barrett Business Services shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of TrueBlue shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Barrett Business Services beats TrueBlue on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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