Barrett Business Services is a staffing & employment services business based in the US. Barrett Business Services shares (BBSI) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $42.02 – an increase of 3.09% over the previous week. Barrett Business Services employs 135,727 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $1.1 billion.
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| Latest market close | $42.02 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $30.42 - $44.88 |
| 50-day moving average | $40.29 |
| 200-day moving average | $39.53 |
| Wall St. target price | $46.75 |
| PE ratio | 21.2222 |
| Dividend yield | $0.31 (0.76%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $1.98 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $42.02 from 2025-05-02
| 1 week (2025-04-25) | 3.68% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-04-04) | 6.46% |
| 3 months (2025-02-05) | -3.87% |
| 6 months (2024-11-05) | 12.29% |
| 1 year (2024-05-03) | -65.94% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-05-04) | 118.64% |
| 3 years (2022-05-04) | 132.37% |
| 5 years (2020-05-05) | 293.70% |
Valuing Barrett Business Services stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Barrett Business Services's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Barrett Business Services's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 21x. In other words, Barrett Business Services shares trade at around 21x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Barrett Business Services's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.3528. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Barrett Business Services's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Barrett Business Services's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $63.5 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Barrett Business Services's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $1.1 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 5.17% |
| Gross profit TTM | $253.3 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 5.09% |
| Return on equity TTM | 25.2% |
| Profit margin | 4.63% |
| Book value | $27.87 |
| Market Capitalization | $1.1 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 15.83% of net profits
Recently Barrett Business Services has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Barrett Business Services shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Barrett Business Services's case, that would currently equate to about $0.31 per share.
While Barrett Business Services's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Barrett Business Services is investing more in its future growth.
Barrett Business Services's most recent dividend payout was on 27 March 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 13 March 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").
Barrett Business Services's shares were split on a 4:1 basis on 23 June 2024 . So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 4 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Barrett Business Services shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 75% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Barrett Business Services shares which in turn could have impacted Barrett Business Services's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Barrett Business Services's shares have ranged in value from as little as $30.4203 up to $44.8792. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Barrett Business Services's is 1.084. This would suggest that Barrett Business Services's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Barrett Business Services, Inc. provides business management solutions for small and mid-sized companies in the United States. It develops a management platform that integrates a knowledge-based approach from the management consulting industry with tools from the human resource outsourcing industry. The company also offers professional employer services under which it enters into a client services agreement to establish a co-employment relationship with each client company, assuming responsibility for payroll, payroll taxes, workers compensation coverage, and other administration functions for the client's existing workforce. In addition, it provides staffing and recruiting services, such as on-demand or short-term staffing assignment, contract staffing, direct placement, and long-term or indefinite-term on-site management services. The company serves customers in various industries, including construction, manufacturing, transportation and warehousing, waste management and remediation services, retail, leisure and hospitality, and wholesale trade. Barrett Business Services, Inc.
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