BBSIBarrett Business Services, Inc.
Is the price fair?
A demanding price: priced for +18% a year vs +6% a year delivered and at the top of its own P/E range.
Priced for ~18% a year FCF growth. The price demands more than its three-year revenue growth of 6% a year, priced for acceleration.
Expensive vs its own history: P/E 24.6 vs a 17.3 median over 29 quarters (+42% vs median).
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What BBSI's price assumes
Barrett Business Services, Inc. trades at 24.6× earnings against 23.1× for the median Staffing & Employment Services name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Staffing & Employment Services median 23.1 · 1.06× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 0.69
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q2
- Free cash flow yield
- 1.9%
Free cash flow yield · Staffing & Employment Services median 4.0%
- Growth the price implies
- +18%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +18% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −18% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / bookas of 2026-Q2
- 4.30
- Industrials median P/E434 names
- 26.2
- Staffing & Employment Services median P/E8 names
- 23.1
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $16M
- Market capitalisation24.2 million shares, counted Jul 22, 2026
- $805M
- 3-year revenue growth
- +5.9%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- −18%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $17.67 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $23.37 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $28.16 |
| 52-week range | $26.68 – $41.67 |
| Today | $33.20 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
What is it worth?
Today's price against what its own multiples, its cash flow and your growth assumption say it is worth.
Against its own past
Its multiples now against their own history, and how much of the price move came from earnings rather than the multiple.
Staffing & Employment Services
Ranks #2 of 8 by RyuScore