Critical Survey: Labor Smart (LTNC) and The Competition

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Labor Smart and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Labor Smart	N/A	N/A	-0.01
Labor Smart Competitors	$3.29 billion	$227.10 million	30.07

Labor Smart’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Labor Smart. Labor Smart is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

57.5% of shares of all “Professional Services” companies are held by institutional investors. 8.1% of Labor Smart shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.1% of shares of all “Professional Services” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Labor Smart and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Labor Smart	N/A	N/A	N/A
Labor Smart Competitors	-0.87%	17.41%	4.16%

Volatility and Risk

Labor Smart has a beta of -0.47, indicating that its share price is 147% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Labor Smart’s peers have a beta of 0.95, indicating that their average share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Labor Smart peers beat Labor Smart on 7 of the 8 factors compared.

About Labor Smart

Labor Smart, Inc. engages in providing temporary blue-collar staffing services. It supplies general laborers on demand to the light industries, including manufacturing, logistics, and warehousing, skilled trade’s people and general laborers to commercial construction industries. The company was founded by Christopher Ryan Schadel on May 31, 2011 and is headquartered in Powder Springs, GA.