Financial Comparison: Labor Smart (LTNC) versus Its Peers

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Labor Smart and its competitors 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	31.29

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

Profitability

This table compares Labor Smart and its competitors’ 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	0.04%	22.09%	4.61%

Volatility & Risk

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

Insider & Institutional Ownership

57.6% of shares of all “Professional Services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 8.1% of Labor Smart shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.0% of shares of all “Professional Services” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Labor Smart competitors beat Labor Smart on 8 of the 8 factors compared.

Labor Smart Company Profile

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.