Barrett Business Services, Inc. provides business management solutions for small and mid-sized companies in the United States. It develops a management platform that integrates a knowledge-based approach from the management consulting industry with tools from the human resource outsourcing industry. The company also offers professional employer services under which it enters into a client services agreement to establish a co-employment …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Margins Stable Across CyclesOperating margin volatility is low (stability score 1.00), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.
ROIC Sustainably Above PeersROIC at 88.9th percentile exceeds peers and WACC, demonstrating superior capital allocation.
The dashed ring is the peer median. Defense scores are percentile ranks
against peers, so 50 is roughly the typical company in this group.
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Where BBSI ranks in Staffing & Employment Services
Barrett Business Services, Inc. ranks #1 of 23
scored companies in Staffing & Employment Services by moat score — the top 4%.
That makes it the widest moat in the group.
Moat scores for companies ranked near BBSI in Staffing & Employment Services
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 82
· 15% of the moat score
A cost advantage means delivering the same product for structurally less — better purchasing, denser distribution, a more automated process.
Customer Stickiness
Score 88
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 91
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 68
· 17% of the moat score
Resilience is the capacity to get through a bad year on its own terms — enough liquidity, enough interest cover, and enough cash generation to avoid a rescue financing or a forced sale.
Scale & Market Position
Score 78
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
What is Barrett Business Services, Inc.'s moat score?
Barrett Business Services, Inc. (BBSI) scores 82 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as strong. It ranks #1 of 23 scored companies in Staffing & Employment Services, the top 4%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 22 companies in Staffing & Employment Services. Its strongest defense is Capital Efficiency (91/100) and its weakest is Resilience (68/100).
How does Barrett Business Services, Inc. compare with other Staffing & Employment Services companies?
Barrett Business Services, Inc. ranks #1 of 23 scored companies in Staffing & Employment Services by moat score. That is the widest moat in Staffing & Employment Services. The companies ranked closest are Korn Ferry (KFY) at 75 just below it.
How is the moat score calculated?
Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Corporate Default in this case, chosen because the defenses that matter to a bank are not the ones that matter to a software company. Every defense combines several financial signals, and each signal is measured as a percentile against a peer group of 22 companies in Staffing & Employment Services. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Barrett Business Services, Inc. scored with the Corporate Default template?
Most public companies sell a product or a service at a margin, so the moat question is whether that margin survives contact with competitors. The Corporate template scores the six defenses that show up in a general operating company's financial signature: whether it can hold price, produce more cheaply than rivals, keep its customers, earn a return above its cost of capital, withstand a downturn, and turn size into economics.
Which competitive defenses are measured for Barrett Business Services, Inc.?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and BBSI scores: Pricing Power (82), Cost Advantage (82), Customer Stickiness (88), Capital Efficiency (91), Resilience (68), Scale & Market Position (78). Each is scored independently as a percentile against peers, so a company can be strong on one and weak on another — the overall score reflects how those defenses are weighted for this industry.
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