PAGE vs. HAS, IPEL, STEM, RWA, STAF, GATC, EMR, RTC, NBB, and IDS
Should you be buying PageGroup stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PageGroup include Hays (HAS), Impellam Group (IPEL), SThree (STEM), Robert Walters (RWA), Staffline Group (STAF), Gattaca (GATC), Empresaria Group (EMR), RTC Group (RTC), Norman Broadbent (NBB), and International Distributions Services (IDS). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
PageGroup vs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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This page (LON:PAGE) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff