RWA vs. IPEL, STEM, STAF, GATC, RTC, EMR, NBB, HAS, PAGE, and RWI
Should you be buying Robert Walters stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Robert Walters include Impellam Group (IPEL), SThree (STEM), Staffline Group (STAF), Gattaca (GATC), RTC Group (RTC), Empresaria Group (EMR), Norman Broadbent (NBB), Hays (HAS), PageGroup (PAGE), and Renewi (RWI). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Robert Walters vs.
Robert Walters (LON:RWA) and Impellam Group (LON:IPEL) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
75.5% of Robert Walters shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.4% of Impellam Group shares are held by institutional investors. 19.7% of Robert Walters shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 85.8% of Impellam Group shares are held 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.
Robert Walters received 368 more outperform votes than Impellam Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.94% of users gave Robert Walters an outperform vote while only 66.92% of users gave Impellam Group an outperform vote.
Robert Walters pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.2%. Impellam Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 112 per share. Robert Walters pays out 276.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Impellam Group pays out 32,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Robert Walters is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Robert Walters had 3 more articles in the media than Impellam Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Robert Walters and 0 mentions for Impellam Group. Impellam Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Robert Walters' score of -0.72 indicating that Impellam Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Robert Walters has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Impellam Group has a beta of 0.41, suggesting that its share price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Robert Walters has a net margin of 0.58% compared to Impellam Group's net margin of 0.32%. Impellam Group's return on equity of 7.78% beat Robert Walters' return on equity.
Impellam Group has higher revenue and earnings than Robert Walters. Impellam Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Robert Walters, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Robert Walters beats Impellam Group on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:RWA) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
