STEM vs. HAS, PAGE, IPEL, RWA, STAF, GATC, RTC, EMR, NBB, and TPK
Should you be buying SThree stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SThree include Hays (HAS), PageGroup (PAGE), Impellam Group (IPEL), Robert Walters (RWA), Staffline Group (STAF), Gattaca (GATC), RTC Group (RTC), Empresaria Group (EMR), Norman Broadbent (NBB), and Travis Perkins (TPK). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
SThree vs.
Hays (LON:HAS) and SThree (LON:STEM) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
91.2% of Hays shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.8% of SThree shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Hays shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.2% of SThree shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, SThree's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Hays' score of 0.00 indicating that SThree is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SThree has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Hays.
Hays currently has a consensus price target of GBX 120, suggesting a potential upside of 55.54%. SThree has a consensus price target of GBX 345, suggesting a potential upside of 19.17%. Given Hays' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Hays is more favorable than SThree.
Hays has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SThree has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hays pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. SThree pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. 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.
Hays received 850 more outperform votes than SThree when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 82.35% of users gave SThree an outperform vote while only 70.47% of users gave Hays an outperform vote.
SThree has a net margin of 3.53% compared to Hays' net margin of -0.07%. SThree's return on equity of 26.60% beat Hays' return on equity.
Summary
Hays and SThree tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:STEM) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
