NSP vs. RHI, ASGN, MAN, KFY, KFRC, BBSI, KELYA, HSII, TBI, and HSON
Should you be buying Insperity stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Insperity include Robert Half (RHI), ASGN (ASGN), ManpowerGroup (MAN), Korn Ferry (KFY), Kforce (KFRC), Barrett Business Services (BBSI), Kelly Services (KELYA), Heidrick & Struggles International (HSII), TrueBlue (TBI), and Hudson Global (HSON). These companies are all part of the "human resource & employment services" industry.
Insperity (NYSE:NSP) and Robert Half (NYSE:RHI) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends and community ranking.
Insperity currently has a consensus target price of $109.50, suggesting a potential upside of 15.60%. Robert Half has a consensus target price of $68.14, suggesting a potential upside of 6.09%. Given Insperity's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Insperity is more favorable than Robert Half.
Robert Half has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Insperity. Robert Half is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Insperity, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Robert Half received 168 more outperform votes than Insperity when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.81% of users gave Insperity an outperform vote while only 61.85% of users gave Robert Half an outperform vote.
Insperity pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Robert Half pays an annual dividend of $2.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Insperity pays out 58.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Robert Half pays out 63.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Insperity has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Robert Half has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
93.4% of Insperity shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of Robert Half shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.5% of Insperity shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Robert Half shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Robert Half had 5 more articles in the media than Insperity. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Robert Half and 3 mentions for Insperity. Robert Half's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Insperity's score of 0.62 indicating that Robert Half is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Robert Half has a net margin of 5.74% compared to Insperity's net margin of 2.39%. Insperity's return on equity of 137.14% beat Robert Half's return on equity.
Summary
Insperity beats Robert Half on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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