BGSF (NYSE:BGSF – Get Free Report) and TaskUs (NASDAQ:TASK – Get Free Report) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends and profitability.
Profitability
This table compares BGSF and TaskUs’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| BGSF | -8.99% | -13.69% | -10.60% |
| TaskUs | 8.75% | 27.02% | 11.58% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for BGSF and TaskUs, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| BGSF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| TaskUs | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares BGSF and TaskUs”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| BGSF | $93.31 million | 0.52 | -$11.43 million | ($0.74) | -6.15 |
| TaskUs | $1.18 billion | 0.63 | $102.28 million | $1.16 | 7.05 |
TaskUs has higher revenue and earnings than BGSF. BGSF is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TaskUs, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Risk and Volatility
BGSF has a beta of 0.45, meaning that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TaskUs has a beta of 1.83, meaning that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
37.2% of BGSF shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.6% of TaskUs shares are held by institutional investors. 7.1% of BGSF shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 31.9% of TaskUs shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
TaskUs beats BGSF on 14 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About BGSF
BGSF, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides consulting, managed services, and professional workforce solutions in the United States. It operates in two segments, Property Management and Professional. The Property Management segment offers office and maintenance field talent to various apartment communities and commercial buildings. The Professional segment provides skilled IT professionals in SAP, Workday, Peoplesoft, Hyperion, Oracle, One Stream, cyber, project management, management services, and other IT workforce solutions. This segment also offers finance, accounting, legal, human resource, and related support personnel. It serves its products to fortune 500 companies, and medium and small companies, as well as consulting companies. The company was formerly known as BG Staffing, Inc. and changed its name to BGSF, Inc. in February 2021. BGSF, Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Plano, Texas.
About TaskUs
TaskUs, Inc. provides digital outsourcing services for companies in Philippines, the United States, India, and internationally. It offers digital customer experience that consists of omni-channel customer care services primarily delivered through non-voice digital channels; and other solutions, including experience and customer care services for new product or market launches, and customer acquisition solutions. The company also provides trust and safety solutions, such as review and disposition of user and advertiser generated visual, text, and audio content, which include removal or labeling of policy violating, and offensive or misleading content, as well as risk management, compliance, identity management, and fraud services; and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that consist of data labeling, annotation, context relevance, and transcription services for training and tuning machine learning algorithms that enables to develop AI systems. It serves clients in various industry segments comprising e-commerce, FinTech, food delivery and ride sharing, gaming, technology, HealthTech, social media, and streaming media. The company was formerly known as TU TopCo, Inc. and changed its name to TaskUs, Inc. in December 2020. TaskUs, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in New Braunfels, Texas.
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