Spire Global (NYSE:SPIR – Get Free Report) and BGSF (NYSE:BGSF – Get Free Report) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
20.0% of Spire Global shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.2% of BGSF shares are held by institutional investors. 13.0% of Spire Global shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of BGSF shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Profitability
This table compares Spire Global and BGSF’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Spire Global | -145.22% | -57.86% | -31.57% |
| BGSF | -8.99% | -13.69% | -10.60% |
Valuation & Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Spire Global | $71.55 million | 7.55 | $51.31 million | $1.57 | 8.89 |
| BGSF | $93.31 million | 0.64 | -$11.43 million | ($0.74) | -7.55 |
Spire Global has higher earnings, but lower revenue than BGSF. BGSF is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spire Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Spire Global and BGSF, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Spire Global | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2.67 |
| BGSF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Spire Global presently has a consensus target price of $16.70, indicating a potential upside of 19.67%. Given Spire Global’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Spire Global is more favorable than BGSF.
Risk and Volatility
Spire Global has a beta of 2.55, suggesting that its share price is 155% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BGSF has a beta of 0.46, suggesting that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Spire Global beats BGSF on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Spire Global
Spire Global, Inc. provides subscription-based data, insights, predictive analytics, and related project-based services worldwide. The company offers satellite-based aircraft tracking data to power applications, drive decision making, and improve cost efficiencies; data, insights, and predictive analytics for highly accurate ship monitoring, real-time and near real-time vessel updates, port operations, ship safety and route optimization; and space-based data, AI-powered insights, and predictive weather analytics for accurate weather forecasting. It serves maritime, weather, aviation, and space services industries. The company was formerly known as Nanosatisfi, Inc. and changed its name to Spire Global, Inc. in July 2014. Spire Global, Inc. is headquartered in Vienna, Virginia.
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.
Receive News & Ratings for Spire Global Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Spire Global and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter.
