IPEL vs. RWA, STEM, PAGE, HAS, GDWN, AFM, LSC, MCG, COD, and FRAN
Should you be buying Impellam Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Impellam Group include Robert Walters (RWA), SThree (STEM), PageGroup (PAGE), Hays (HAS), Goodwin (GDWN), Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (AFM), London Security (LSC), Mobico Group (MCG), Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (COD), and Franchise Brands (FRAN). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Robert Walters (LON:RWA) and Impellam Group (LON:IPEL) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
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.
In the previous week, Robert Walters had 1 more articles in the media than Impellam Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Robert Walters and 0 mentions for Impellam Group. Impellam Group's average media sentiment score of 0.05 beat Robert Walters' score of 0.00 indicating that Robert Walters is being referred to more favorably in the media.
77.4% of Robert Walters shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.4% of Impellam Group shares are held by institutional investors. 19.5% 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 large money managers, hedge funds 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 has a net margin of 1.26% compared to Robert Walters' net margin of 0.32%. Robert Walters' return on equity of 7.78% beat Impellam Group's return on equity.
Impellam Group has higher revenue and earnings than Robert Walters. Robert Walters is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Impellam Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Robert Walters pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Impellam Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 112 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.8%. Robert Walters pays out 6,857.1% 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.
Summary
Robert Walters beats Impellam Group on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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