TaskUs (NASDAQ:TASK – Get Free Report) and Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE:BAH – Get Free Report) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
Profitability
This table compares TaskUs and Booz Allen Hamilton’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| TaskUs | 8.22% | 30.17% | 11.13% |
| Booz Allen Hamilton | 7.14% | 75.00% | 11.41% |
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares TaskUs and Booz Allen Hamilton”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| TaskUs | $1.18 billion | 0.70 | $102.28 million | $1.10 | 8.26 |
| Booz Allen Hamilton | $11.22 billion | 0.90 | $851.00 million | $6.44 | 13.20 |
Booz Allen Hamilton has higher revenue and earnings than TaskUs. TaskUs is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Booz Allen Hamilton, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for TaskUs and Booz Allen Hamilton, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| TaskUs | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Booz Allen Hamilton | 3 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2.13 |
TaskUs presently has a consensus price target of $9.80, suggesting a potential upside of 7.81%. Booz Allen Hamilton has a consensus price target of $89.29, suggesting a potential upside of 5.05%. Given TaskUs’ higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe TaskUs is more favorable than Booz Allen Hamilton.
Volatility and Risk
TaskUs has a beta of 1.93, indicating that its share price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Booz Allen Hamilton has a beta of 0.28, indicating that its share price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
44.6% of TaskUs shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.8% of Booz Allen Hamilton shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.9% of TaskUs shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Booz Allen Hamilton shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Booz Allen Hamilton beats TaskUs on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About TaskUs
TaskUs, Inc. provides digital outsourcing services for companies in Philippines, the United States, India, and internationally. It offers digital customer experience that consists of omni-channel customer care services primarily delivered through non-voice digital channels; and other solutions, including experience and customer care services for new product or market launches, and customer acquisition solutions. The company also provides trust and safety solutions, such as review and disposition of user and advertiser generated visual, text, and audio content, which include removal or labeling of policy violating, and offensive or misleading content, as well as risk management, compliance, identity management, and fraud services; and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that consist of data labeling, annotation, context relevance, and transcription services for training and tuning machine learning algorithms that enables to develop AI systems. It serves clients in various industry segments comprising e-commerce, FinTech, food delivery and ride sharing, gaming, technology, HealthTech, social media, and streaming media. The company was formerly known as TU TopCo, Inc. and changed its name to TaskUs, Inc. in December 2020. TaskUs, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in New Braunfels, Texas.
About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation provides management and technology consulting, analytics, engineering, digital solutions, mission operations, and cyber services to governments, corporations, and not-for-profit organizations in the United States and internationally. It focuses on artificial intelligence services comprising of machine learning, predictive modeling, automation and decision analytics, and quantum computing. The company offers artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computer network related operations. In addition, it provides data science, engineering, visualization, and analysis related capabilities. Further, the company engages in user experience, user interface, graphic and web design, design thinking, sketching, and digital product design capabilities. Additionally, it architects and engineers help accelerate, scale, secure, and transform mission and business outcomes using the technologies and partner offering; offers software engineering in agile practices, DevSecOps, automation and Cloud, and Low/No Code Platform engineering; systems and digital engineering; and tech strategy and product management. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation was founded in 1914 and is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.
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