HAS vs. PAGE, STEM, IPEL, RWA, STAF, GATC, EMR, RTC, NBB, and SPX
Should you be buying Hays stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hays include PageGroup (PAGE), SThree (STEM), Impellam Group (IPEL), Robert Walters (RWA), Staffline Group (STAF), Gattaca (GATC), Empresaria Group (EMR), RTC Group (RTC), Norman Broadbent (NBB), and Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Hays (LON:HAS) and PageGroup (LON:PAGE) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Hays currently has a consensus target price of GBX 150, suggesting a potential upside of 39.15%. PageGroup has a consensus target price of GBX 515, suggesting a potential upside of 12.54%. Given Hays' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Hays is more favorable than PageGroup.
Hays has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PageGroup has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hays pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. PageGroup pays an annual dividend of GBX 16 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Hays pays out 6,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. PageGroup pays out 6,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, PageGroup had 1 more articles in the media than Hays. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for PageGroup and 0 mentions for Hays. PageGroup's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Hays' score of 0.00 indicating that PageGroup is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hays received 600 more outperform votes than PageGroup when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.37% of users gave Hays an outperform vote while only 58.42% of users gave PageGroup an outperform vote.
88.6% of Hays shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.7% of PageGroup shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Hays shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of PageGroup shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Hays has higher revenue and earnings than PageGroup. PageGroup is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hays, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PageGroup has a net margin of 3.83% compared to Hays' net margin of 1.15%. PageGroup's return on equity of 23.40% beat Hays' return on equity.
Summary
Hays and PageGroup tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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