Industrials / Staffing & Employment ServicesUpdated 2026-05-10 22:07 UTC

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Barrett Business Services, Inc. has a live ticker hub with the latest available market, valuation, profitability, growth, ownership, and risk indicators.

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Market cap

733.6M

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Market data

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E15.4

P25 14.6P50 20.6P75 30.4

Trailing P/E19.1

P25 17.1P50 27.2P75 47.6

ROE19.4

P25 -16.4P50 5.9P75 16.4

ROIC28.7

P25 -10.3P50 5.1P75 12.2

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Indicator catalog

All BBSI market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

Available fields

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Currency

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Showing 242 of 242 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0000902791
Company name	Barrett Business Services, Inc.
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	068463108
Employees	141,802
Employees Change	6,075%
Employees Change Percent	4.48
Enterprise value	$667.3M
Exchange	NASDAQ
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Staffing & Employment Services
IPO Date	1993-06-11
Isin	US0684631080
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$733.6M
Market cap category	Small-Cap
Price	$29.87
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	8,848.51x
Sector	Industrials
Sic	7363
Symbol	BBSI
Website	https://www.bbsi.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	5.54%
EV Earnings	16.41x
EV/EBIT	11.15x
EV/EBITDA	10.68x
EV/Sales	0.53x
Forward P/E	15.42x
P/B ratio	3.64x
P/E ratio	19.07x
P/S ratio	0.58x
PE Ratio10 Y	16.07x
PE Ratio3 Y	17.62x
PE Ratio5 Y	16x
PEG ratio	1.1x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	4.77%
EBITDA Margin	4.98%
Gross margin	20.84%
Gross Profit	$261.5M
Gross Profit Growth	2.02%
Gross Profit Growth Q	1.32%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	3.47%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	6.85%
Net Income	$40.7M
Net Income Growth	-21.96%
Net Income Growth Years	5%
Net Income Growth3 Y	-5.24%
Net Income Growth5 Y	4.51%
Pretax Margin	5.46%
Profit Margin	3.24%
Profit Per Employee	$287
Profitable Years	11
ROA	4.79
Roa5y	4.86
ROCE	18.8
ROE	19.41
Roe5y	23.76
ROIC	28.7
Roic5y	60.94

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	16.47%
Cagr15y	16.49%
Cagr1y	-26.09%
Cagr20y	9.87%
Cagr3y	15.51%
Cagr5y	10.11%
Div CAGR10	3.82%
Div CAGR3	2.17%
Div CAGR5	1.3%
EPS Growth	-20.09
EPS Growth Years	5
EPS Growth3 Y	-2.35
EPS Growth5 Y	8.16
Revenue Growth	7.12x
Revenue Growth Q	4.94x
Revenue Growth Quarters	10x
Revenue Growth Years	5x
Revenue Growth3 Y	5.7x
Revenue Growth5 Y	7.35x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$1.61
Assets	$783.2M
Cash	$91.9M
Current Assets	$538M
Current Liabilities	$464.7M
Debt	$25.6M
Debt EBITDA	$0.35
Debt Equity	$0.12
Equity	$205.7M
Interest Coverage	354.2
Liabilities	$577.6M
Long Term Assets	$245.2M
Long Term Liabilities	$112.8M
Net Cash	$66.3M
Net Cash By Market Cap	$9.04
Net Cash Growth	-12.75%
Net Debt EBITDA	$-1.06
Net Debt Equity	$-0.32
Tangible Book Value	$157.8M
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$6.31
WACC	9.23

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	1.16
Net Working Capital	$-11.4M
Quick ratio	0.83
Working Capital	$73.3M
Working Capital Turnover	$15.01

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	2.42%
Dividend Growth	0%
Dividend Growth Years	2%
Dividend per share	$0.32
Dividend Years	21
Dividend Yield	1.07%
Ex Div Date	2026-05-22
Last Dividend	$0.08
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	20.43%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	359.31%
1Y total return	-26.07%
200-day SMA	37.55
3Y total return	54.15%
50-day SMA	29.23
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50under200
5Y total return	61.82%
All Time High	49.65
All Time High Change	-39.84%
All Time High Date	2025-09-05
All Time Low	0.34
All Time Low Change	8,816.42%
All Time Low Date	2002-09-30
ATR	1.04
Beta	0.96
Beta1y	0.95
Beta2y	0.74
Ch YTD	-17.51
High	30.58
High52	49.65
High52 Date	2025-09-05
High52ch	-39.84%
Low	29.11
Low52	25.33
Low52 Date	2026-02-26
Low52ch	17.91%
Ma50ch	2.19%
Price vs 200-day SMA	-20.45%
RSI	47.56
RSI Monthly	42.32
RSI Weekly	39.83
Sharpe ratio	-0.84x
Sortino ratio	-0.87
Total Return	3.49%
Tr YTD	-17.26
Tr15y	887.05%
Tr1m	1.98%
Tr1w	-4.93%
Tr3m	-20.85%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	2
Analyst Count Top	1
Analyst Price Target Top	$42
Analyst Ratings	Strong Buy
Analyst Ratings Top	Strong Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$-0.16
Earnings Revenue Estimate	675,952,440x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	131.04x
Operating Income	$59.9M
Operating Income Growth	-0.73
Operating Income Growth3 Y	0.52
Operating Income Growth5 Y	10.91
Operating margin	4.77
Price target	$41.5
Price Target Change	$38.94
Price Target Change Top	$40.61

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	23,351,577%
Float Percent	95.08%
Shares Insiders	4.92%
Shares Institutions	90.57%
Shares Out	24,559,649
Shares Qo Q	-2.89%
Shares Yo Y	-2.42%
Short Float	2.13%
Short Ratio	2.02
Short Shares	2.02

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Average Volume	176,147.65x
Bv Per Share	8.22
Ch10y	296.9
Ch15y	674.2
Ch1m	1.98
Ch1w	-4.93
Ch1y	-26.74
Ch20y	365.3
Ch3m	-21.08
Ch3y	49.65
Ch5y	52.4
Ch6m	-10.33
Change	-0.1%
Change From Open	1.56
Close	29.9
Days Gap	-1.64
Depreciation Amortization	2,612,000
Dollar Volume	7,540,143.8
Earnings Date	2026-05-06
Earnings Time	amc
EBIT	$59.9M
EBITDA	$62.5M
EPS	$1.57
F Score	3
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	1,965
Goodwill	47,820,000
Graham Number	17.01597
Graham Upside	-43.03
Income Tax	$27.8M
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-05-06
Last Report Date	2026-03-31
Last Split Date	2024-06-24
Last Split Type	Forward
Last10k Filing Date	2026-02-26
Lynch Fair Value	$7.83
Lynch Upside	-73.78
Ma150	34.56
Ma150ch	-13.58%
Ma20	30.23
Ma20ch	-1.2%
Next Earnings Date	2026-08-05
Open	29.41
Optionable	Yes
Payment Date	2026-06-05
Position In Range	51.7
Ppne	95,120,000
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$11.74
Ptbv Ratio	4.65
Relative Volume	1.43x
Revenue	1,254,737,000x
Tax By Revenue	2.22x
Tax Rate	40.63%
Tr20y	557.43%
Tr6m	-9.85%
Us State	Washington
Volume	252,432

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Income

BBSI dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+1.1%

$0.32 annual per share

Payout ratio

+20.4%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

+1.3%

2 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+3.5%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-05-22

Performance

BBSI stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns BBSI?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+90.6%

Float: +95.1% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+4.9%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

BBSI momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

47.6

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

-20.4%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

0.96

Moves roughly with the market

Sharpe ratio

-0.84

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

BBSI vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
BA	The Boeing Company	187.1B	95.1x	2.0x	-13.6%	+10.3%	+27.9%	Vendre
CAT	Caterpillar Inc.	413.4B	44.7x	5.8x	16.5%	+10.5%	+183.2%	Vendre
DE	Deere & Company	155.3B	32.4x	3.3x	6.0%	+4.8%	+23.3%	Vendre

Questions

About BBSI

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What is the current BBSI stock rating?

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