PageGroup (PAGE) Competitors

PageGroup (LON:PAGE) and Hays (LON:HAS) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, profitability and dividends.

Which has stronger earnings & valuation, PAGE or HAS?

PageGroup has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Hays. Hays is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PageGroup, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
PageGroup	£1.87B	0.45	£50.57M	£16.16	16.71
Hays	£6.91B	0.16	-£4.87M	-£0.31	-225.36

Is PAGE or HAS a better dividend stock?

PageGroup pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Hays pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. PageGroup pays out 105.2% 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 pays out -962.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Is PAGE or HAS more profitable?

PageGroup has a net margin of 2.71% compared to Hays' net margin of -0.07%. PageGroup's return on equity of 17.47% beat Hays' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
PageGroup	2.71%	17.47%	7.59%
Hays	-0.07%	-0.84%	2.27%

Which has more volatility & risk, PAGE or HAS?

PageGroup has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hays has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts recommend PAGE or HAS?

PageGroup currently has a consensus target price of GBX 495, indicating a potential upside of 83.33%. Hays has a consensus target price of GBX 120, indicating a potential upside of 70.82%. Given PageGroup's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe PageGroup is more favorable than Hays.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
PageGroup	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50
Hays	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Does the media favor PAGE or HAS?

In the previous week, PageGroup's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat Hays' score of 0.67 indicating that PageGroup is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
PageGroup	Positive
Hays	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community favor PAGE or HAS?

Hays received 603 more outperform votes than PageGroup when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.47% of users gave Hays an outperform vote while only 58.39% of users gave PageGroup an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
PageGroup	Outperform Votes 275 58.39%	Underperform Votes 196 41.61%
Hays	Outperform Votes 878 70.47%	Underperform Votes 368 29.53%

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of PAGE or HAS?

90.0% of PageGroup shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.2% of Hays shares are held by institutional investors. 5.4% of PageGroup shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Hays shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

PageGroup beats Hays on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.