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Norman Broadbent (NBB) Competitors

GBX 3.07 +0.17 (+5.86%)
As of 04/4/2025 12:00 PM Eastern

NBB vs. HAS, PAGE, IPEL, STEM, RWA, STAF, GATC, RTC, EMR, and WSG

Should you be buying Norman Broadbent stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Norman Broadbent include Hays (HAS), PageGroup (PAGE), Impellam Group (IPEL), SThree (STEM), Robert Walters (RWA), Staffline Group (STAF), Gattaca (GATC), RTC Group (RTC), Empresaria Group (EMR), and Westminster Group (WSG). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.

Norman Broadbent vs.

Hays (LON:HAS) and Norman Broadbent (LON:NBB) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking and profitability.

In the previous week, Hays and Hays both had 1 articles in the media. Norman Broadbent's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Hays' score of 0.75 indicating that Norman Broadbent is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Hays Positive
Norman Broadbent Positive

Hays presently has a consensus target price of GBX 120, suggesting a potential upside of 68.90%. Given Hays' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Hays is more favorable than Norman Broadbent.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Hays
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Norman Broadbent
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Hays has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Norman Broadbent has a beta of -0.1, suggesting that its share price is 110% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Norman Broadbent has a net margin of 2.02% compared to Hays' net margin of -0.07%. Norman Broadbent's return on equity of 16.52% beat Hays' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Hays-0.07% -0.84% 2.27%
Norman Broadbent 2.02%16.52%3.92%

91.2% of Hays shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.3% of Norman Broadbent shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Hays shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 41.7% of Norman Broadbent shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Hays£6.91B0.16-£4.87M-£0.31-227.93
Norman Broadbent£10.98M0.17£221.78K£0.387.99

Hays received 825 more outperform votes than Norman Broadbent when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.47% of users gave Hays an outperform vote while only 54.64% of users gave Norman Broadbent an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
HaysOutperform Votes
878
70.47%
Underperform Votes
368
29.53%
Norman BroadbentOutperform Votes
53
54.64%
Underperform Votes
44
45.36%

Summary

Norman Broadbent beats Hays on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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NBB vs. The Competition

MetricNorman BroadbentStaffing & Employment Services IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£1.91M£269.32M£6.28B£2.43B
Dividend Yield5.24%5.93%3.56%4.81%
P/E Ratio7.9916.8119.47127.66
Price / Sales0.1713.3771.42262,187.53
Price / Cash37.5014.6326.8728.23
Price / Book1.421.463.444.34
Net Income£221,776.05£10.32M£796.18M£5.85B
7 Day Performance39.55%-1.79%-3.69%2.05%
1 Month Performance-10.76%-5.34%-5.89%0.18%
1 Year Performance-70.76%-12.80%5.38%23.18%

Norman Broadbent Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NBB
Norman Broadbent
N/AGBX 3.07
+5.9%
N/A-70.1%£1.91M£10.98M7.9952Earnings Report
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
HAS
Hays
3.5952 of 5 stars
GBX 78.45
-1.1%
GBX 120
+53.0%
-26.5%£1.24B£6.91B-251.676,490
PAGE
PageGroup
3.2072 of 5 stars
GBX 296.60
-1.4%
GBX 495
+66.9%
-42.9%£929.40M£1.87B18.367,859News Coverage
IPEL
Impellam Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£389.29M£2.04B2,500.001,783
STEM
SThree
3.8561 of 5 stars
GBX 261
-1.7%
GBX 345
+32.2%
-44.9%£340.70M£1.47B6.902,280Gap Down
RWA
Robert Walters
N/AGBX 233
-0.4%
N/A-42.1%£166.25M£1.07B26.883,980
STAF
Staffline Group
N/AGBX 32.27
-0.4%
N/A+1.4%£41.86M£896.86M-2.222,300
GATC
Gattaca
N/AGBX 80.10
-4.1%
N/A-23.8%£24.05M£370.86M129.35446Earnings Report
Dividend Cut
News Coverage
RTC
RTC Group
N/AGBX 95.90
+0.9%
N/A+0.2%£12.41M£90.27M6.76361
EMR
Empresaria Group
N/AGBX 24.30
-4.7%
N/A-31.5%£11.43M£235.95M-1.933,150Earnings Report
WSG
Westminster Group
N/AGBX 1.80
-5.1%
N/A-5.6%£5.71M£5.77M-1.90256Earnings Report
Gap Down
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This page (LON:NBB) was last updated on 4/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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