Published on 26 May 2024 on Simply Wall St. via Yahoo Finance
Barrett Business Services (NASDAQ:BBSI) shareholders have earned a 13% CAGR over the last five years
If you buy and hold a stock for many years, you'd hope to be making a profit. Furthermore, you'd generally like to see the share price rise faster than the market. But Barrett Business Services, Inc. (NASDAQ:BBSI) has fallen short of that second goal, with a share price rise of 73% over five years, which is below the market return. However, more recent buyers should be happy with the increase of 48% over the last year.
So let's investigate and see if the longer term performance of the company has been in line with the underlying business' progress.