PAGE vs. HAS, STEM, HILS, TPK, MTO, BOY, DATA, RHIM, SMS, and CKN
Should you be buying PageGroup stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PageGroup include Hays (HAS), SThree (STEM), Hill & Smith (HILS), Travis Perkins (TPK), Mitie Group (MTO), Bodycote (BOY), GlobalData (DATA), RHI Magnesita (RHIM), Smart Metering Systems (SMS), and Clarkson (CKN). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Hays (LON:HAS) and PageGroup (LON:PAGE) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends and media sentiment.
Hays received 600 more outperform votes than PageGroup when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.37% of users gave Hays an outperform vote while only 58.42% of users gave PageGroup an outperform vote.
Hays has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PageGroup has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
85.3% of Hays shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.7% of PageGroup shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Hays shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of PageGroup shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Hays pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. PageGroup pays an annual dividend of GBX 16 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Hays pays out 6,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. PageGroup pays out 5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. PageGroup is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Hays has higher revenue and earnings than PageGroup. PageGroup is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hays, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hays presently has a consensus target price of GBX 150, suggesting a potential upside of 64.68%. PageGroup has a consensus target price of GBX 515, suggesting a potential upside of 15.26%. Given PageGroup's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Hays is more favorable than PageGroup.
PageGroup has a net margin of 3.83% compared to PageGroup's net margin of 1.15%. Hays' return on equity of 23.40% beat PageGroup's return on equity.
In the previous week, Hays' average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat PageGroup's score of -0.99 indicating that PageGroup is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
PageGroup beats Hays on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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