Barrett Business Services Inc
Barrett Business Services Inc (BBSI) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Staffing & Employment Services, part of the Industrials sector. It is headquartered in Vancouver, United States and has 141,802 employees. The company is worth $795.16M and trades at 24.5x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 24.3x. Revenue was $1.24B in fiscal 2025, up 8.4% from the year before. Net income was $54.45M. The share price is 22.7% below its 52-week high of $42.47. It pays a dividend yielding 0.98%. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Renaissance Technologies, at $18.88M. In that quarter, 3 of them opened or added to the position and 2 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +84.4% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,680.75▲ +68.1%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $36.21 | $43.44 | $28.95 | $23.32 | $17.26 | $17.05 | $22.61 | $14.31 | $16.12 | $16.02 | $10.89 | $6.85 | $23.18 | $9.52 | $4.99 | $3.89 | $3.07 | |
| P/E |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 13.6% a year plus a 1.0% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 24.3 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 15.6 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 13.6% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 13.2x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Industrials, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HTLDHeartland Express Inc | $10.29 | — | 1.1x | 0.78% | -1.66% | $795.75M |
| KELYBKelly Services Inc | $22.80 | — | 0.8x | 1.32% | -24.32% | $791.89M |
| MTWManitowoc Co Inc | $22.15 | 40.3x | 1.1x | 0.00% | 2.92% | $798.77M |
| ASCArdmore Shipping Corp | $19.34 |
| 15.6x |
| 17.4x |
| 21.9x |
| 15.6x |
| 14.2x |
| 13.8x |
| 15.5x |
| 14.4x |
| 11.5x |
| 19.4x |
| 25.1x |
| 12.5x |
| — |
| 43.7x |
| 22.8x |
| 14.2x |
| 21.9x |
| — |
| P/S | 0.6x | 0.7x | 1.0x | 0.7x | 0.6x | 0.5x | 0.6x | 0.7x | 0.5x | 0.5x | 0.6x | 0.4x | 0.3x | 1.2x | 0.7x | 0.6x | 0.6x | 0.5x |
| P/B | 3.8x | 3.8x | 5.1x | 3.8x | 3.6x | 2.5x | 2.6x | 4.0x | 3.6x | 5.3x | 6.7x | 5.8x | 6.0x | 10.2x | 5.5x | 2.0x | 1.7x | 1.4x |
| EPS | $2.08 | $1.98 | $1.85 | $1.64 | $1.25 | $1.10 | $1.57 | $1.25 | $0.83 | $0.64 | $0.87 | -$0.89 | $0.53 | $0.42 | $0.35 | $0.18 | -$0.10 |
| Dividend yield | 1.55% | 0.88% | 0.71% | 1.04% | 1.29% | 1.74% | 1.76% | 1.22% | 1.75% | 1.55% | 1.37% | 2.02% | 2.77% | 0.61% | 1.21% | 1.90% | 2.12% | 2.60% |
| Payout | 25.36% | 15.38% | 15.66% | 16.22% | 18.29% | 24.00% | 27.33% | 17.54% | 20.08% | 30.03% | 34.51% | 25.36% | — | 26.89% | 27.54% | 26.95% | 46.48% | — |
| Profit margin | 3.83% | 4.39% | 4.63% | 4.73% | 4.48% | 3.99% | 3.83% | 5.12% | 4.05% | 2.73% | 2.24% | 3.44% | -4.01% | 2.92% | 3.26% | 4.55% | 2.69% | -1.67% |
| ROE | 24.05% | 22.59% | 23.93% | 25.42% | 26.58% | 18.26% | 17.03% | 28.11% | 31.97% | 28.33% | 26.97% | 46.73% | -77.84% | 24.05% | 26.94% | 14.08% | 7.71% | -4.16% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+26.5% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| 7.6x |
| 1.1x |
| 7.08% |
| 16.23% |
| $790.08M |
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| HTZHertz Global Holdings Inc | $2.18 | — | — | 0.00% | — | $777.06M |