RWA vs. STEM, IPEL, STAF, GATC, RTC, EMR, NBB, HAS, PAGE, and REDD
Should you be buying Robert Walters stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Robert Walters include SThree (STEM), Impellam Group (IPEL), Staffline Group (STAF), Gattaca (GATC), RTC Group (RTC), Empresaria Group (EMR), Norman Broadbent (NBB), Hays (HAS), PageGroup (PAGE), and Redde Northgate (REDD). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Robert Walters vs.
SThree (LON:STEM) and Robert Walters (LON:RWA) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking and risk.
SThree has higher revenue and earnings than Robert Walters. SThree is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Robert Walters, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, SThree had 6 more articles in the media than Robert Walters. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for SThree and 2 mentions for Robert Walters. SThree's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat Robert Walters' score of 0.21 indicating that SThree is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SThree has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Robert Walters has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SThree pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Robert Walters pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. SThree pays out 4,047.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Robert Walters pays out 30,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
SThree has a net margin of 3.53% compared to Robert Walters' net margin of 0.58%. SThree's return on equity of 26.60% beat Robert Walters' return on equity.
83.8% of SThree shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.5% of Robert Walters shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.2% of SThree shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 19.7% of Robert Walters shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SThree currently has a consensus target price of GBX 485, indicating a potential upside of 39.77%. Given SThree's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe SThree is more favorable than Robert Walters.
Robert Walters received 430 more outperform votes than SThree when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.94% of users gave Robert Walters an outperform vote while only 84.38% of users gave SThree an outperform vote.
Summary
SThree beats Robert Walters on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:RWA) was last updated on 11/17/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
