STEM vs. RWA, PAGE, HAS, MEGP, VLX, OCN, MRL, KIE, AFM, and GDWN
Should you be buying SThree stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SThree include Robert Walters (RWA), PageGroup (PAGE), Hays (HAS), ME Group International (MEGP), Volex (VLX), Ocean Wilsons (OCN), Marlowe (MRL), Kier Group (KIE), Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (AFM), and Goodwin (GDWN). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
SThree (LON:STEM) and Robert Walters (LON:RWA) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, valuation, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
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.
SThree has a net margin of 3.37% compared to Robert Walters' net margin of 1.26%. SThree's return on equity of 26.48% beat Robert Walters' return on equity.
SThree has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Robert Walters has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
82.1% of SThree shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.2% of Robert Walters shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.2% of SThree shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.9% of Robert Walters shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SThree pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Robert Walters pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. 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 12,631.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
SThree currently has a consensus target price of GBX 470, suggesting a potential upside of 8.67%. Given SThree's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe SThree is more favorable than Robert Walters.
Robert Walters received 431 more outperform votes than SThree when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 86.67% of users gave SThree an outperform vote while only 84.94% of users gave Robert Walters an outperform vote.
In the previous week, SThree had 1 more articles in the media than Robert Walters. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for SThree and 0 mentions for Robert Walters. SThree's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Robert Walters' score of 0.00 indicating that SThree is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
SThree beats Robert Walters on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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