Empresaria Group (EMR) Competitors

Empresaria Group (LON:EMR) and Staffline Group (LON:STAF) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.

Do institutionals and insiders have more ownership in EMR or STAF?

27.5% of Empresaria Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.9% of Staffline Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 60.0% of Empresaria Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 52.0% of Staffline Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, EMR or STAF?

Empresaria Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Staffline Group. Empresaria Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Staffline Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Empresaria Group	£246.40M	0.05	-£6M	-£0.12	-222.25
Staffline Group	£988.40M	0.04	-£19.90M	-£0.13	-208.85

Which has more volatility and risk, EMR or STAF?

Empresaria Group has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Staffline Group has a beta of 1.74, meaning that its stock price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is EMR or STAF a better dividend stock?

Empresaria Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Staffline Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 25 per share and has a dividend yield of 92.1%. Empresaria Group pays out -833.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Staffline Group pays out -19,230.8% 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. Staffline Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Does the media favor EMR or STAF?

In the previous week, Staffline Group's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Empresaria Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Staffline Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Empresaria Group	Neutral
Staffline Group	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community favor EMR or STAF?

Staffline Group received 204 more outperform votes than Empresaria Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.51% of users gave Staffline Group an outperform vote while only 71.20% of users gave Empresaria Group an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Empresaria Group	Outperform Votes 89 71.20%	Underperform Votes 36 28.80%
Staffline Group	Outperform Votes 293 77.51%	Underperform Votes 85 22.49%

Is EMR or STAF more profitable?

Staffline Group has a net margin of -2.03% compared to Empresaria Group's net margin of -2.43%. Empresaria Group's return on equity of -10.77% beat Staffline Group's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Empresaria Group	-2.43%	-10.77%	2.08%
Staffline Group	-2.03%	-36.41%	2.83%

Summary

Staffline Group beats Empresaria Group on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.