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Barrett Business Services Inc. BBSI

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$1.2B
▲ 8.4% YoY
$54.4M
▲ 2.7% YoY
$47.2M

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

In brief

What this company does

Barrett Business Services, Inc. provides business management solutions for small and mid-sized companies. During 2025, Barrett Business Services, Inc. supported in excess of 8,200 PEO clients with total average worksite employees of 138,218. At December 31, 2025, the Company had a total of 3,197 employees, including 896 managerial, sales and administrative employees, 4 executive officers and 2,297 staffing services employees. BBSI reports financial results in two categories of services: Professional Employer Services and Staffing. Through its client services agreement, BBSI establishes a co-employment relationship with each client company, assuming responsibility for payroll, payroll taxes, workers' compensation, if elected, and benefits coverage, if elected, and certain other administrative functions for the client's existing workforce. BBSI's staffing services include on-demand or short-term staffing assignments, contract staffing, direct placement for PEO and non-PEO clients, and long-term or indefinite-term on-site management. BBSI was incorporated in Maryland in 1965.

Written from the business description in Barrett Business Services, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 26 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 1.2B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 1.2 · Net income 0.1
0.5B1.0B
2009201220152018202120242025
Compound annual growth
+5.6%
+7.1%
+5.3%
+10.6%
+4.8%
+10.0%
+7.9%
+14.3%
−5.1%
+27.2%
+22.2%
+13.7%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +7.1% a year over the five years to FY2025 — but profit grew faster: net income at +10.0%.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

4 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 5.0% · Net 4.4%
2%4%-2%-4%-6%
200920172025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 23.5%
20%40%-20%-40%
200920172025
Three returns, three denominators.
Gross margin21.0%
Operating margin5.0%
Net margin4.4%
EBITDAUSD 65.8M

Each USD of equity produced 24 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 46.9M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 47.2
50M100M-15M-30M
200920172025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 8.2 · Net buybacks 38.8
20M40MDividendsNet buybacks
200920112013201520172019202120232025
Dividends paidUSD 8.2M
Net buybacksUSD 38.8M
Share of profit86.2%
Consecutive raises1 year (since the 2024 share-count change)

USD 8.2M in dividends and USD 38.8M in buybacks — 86% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 779.1M
EquityUSD 241.0M
CashUSD 95.0M
Current ratio1.29×

Equity funds 31% of total assets.

The 17-year record

17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
BBSI, 17-year financial record
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B1.21.11.11.11.00.90.90.90.90.80.70.60.50.40.30.30.2
Operating income $B0.10.10.10.10.00.00.10.00.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.0−0.0
EBITDA $B0.10.10.10.10.00.00.10.0◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Income tax $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.0−0.0
Net income $B0.10.10.10.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.0−0.0
Free cash flow $B0.0−0.00.10.0−0.0−0.00.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.00.00.00.0
EPS, diluted $2.081.981.851.645.004.396.274.983.332.553.47−3.572.121.671.410.71−0.38
Dividend / sh $0.320.310.300.301.201.201.101.001.000.880.880.760.570.460.380.33◌
Payout %1515161824271719293425−2126272746−85
ROE %23.525.226.924.518.718.233.236.631.830.358.4−52.127.517.514.57.7−4.2
Shares out B0.030.030.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.01◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 83 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of the 17 fiscal years we could check. Six checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2010. Two checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2009. Two checks were skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2009.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityServices-Help Supply Services
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inMaryland
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2009

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