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Robert Walters (RWA) Competitors

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GBX 216 -9.00 (-4.00%)
As of 05/2/2025 11:46 AM Eastern

RWA vs. IPEL, STEM, STAF, GATC, RTC, EMR, NBB, HAS, PAGE, and ZIG

Should you be buying Robert Walters stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Robert Walters include Impellam Group (IPEL), SThree (STEM), Staffline Group (STAF), Gattaca (GATC), RTC Group (RTC), Empresaria Group (EMR), Norman Broadbent (NBB), Hays (HAS), PageGroup (PAGE), and Zigup (ZIG). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.

Robert Walters vs.

Impellam Group (LON:IPEL) and Robert Walters (LON:RWA) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and risk.

Impellam Group has higher revenue and earnings than Robert Walters. Impellam Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Robert Walters, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Impellam Group£2.04B0.00£15.70M£0.35N/A
Robert Walters£1.07B0.14£6.27M£8.6724.92

Impellam Group has a beta of 0.41, indicating that its stock price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Robert Walters has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Robert Walters has a net margin of 0.58% compared to Impellam Group's net margin of 0.32%. Impellam Group's return on equity of 7.78% beat Robert Walters' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Impellam Group0.32% 7.78% 1.23%
Robert Walters 0.58%3.65%2.39%

Impellam Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 112 per share. Robert Walters pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.1%. 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. Robert Walters pays out 276.9% 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

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.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Impellam GroupOutperform Votes
89
66.92%
Underperform Votes
44
33.08%
Robert WaltersOutperform Votes
457
84.94%
Underperform Votes
81
15.06%

In the previous week, Robert Walters had 2 more articles in the media than Impellam Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Robert Walters and 0 mentions for Impellam Group. Robert Walters' average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat Impellam Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Robert Walters is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Impellam Group Neutral
Robert Walters Neutral

8.4% of Impellam Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.5% of Robert Walters shares are owned by institutional investors. 85.8% of Impellam Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.7% of Robert Walters shares are owned 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

Robert Walters beats Impellam Group on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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RWA vs. The Competition

MetricRobert WaltersStaffing & Employment Services IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£154.12M£267.53M£7.31B£2.59B
Dividend Yield8.08%5.93%3.56%4.97%
P/E Ratio24.9215.5421.19133.69
Price / Sales0.1412.9784.39239,757.82
Price / Cash3.2614.6326.9028.12
Price / Book0.951.423.794.55
Net Income£6.27M£10.32M£808.20M£5.84B
7 Day Performance-4.85%-1.24%4.80%3.43%
1 Month Performance-6.90%-6.22%3.16%10.59%
1 Year Performance-42.09%-15.70%15.89%117.06%

Robert Walters Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
RWA
Robert Walters
N/AGBX 216
-4.0%
N/A-42.1%£154.12M£1.07B24.923,980
IPEL
Impellam Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£389.29M£2.04B2,500.001,783
STEM
SThree
3.7162 of 5 stars
GBX 243
+3.8%
GBX 345
+42.0%
-43.0%£317.20M£1.47B6.432,280Positive News
Gap Down
STAF
Staffline Group
N/AGBX 26.25
+1.7%
N/A-19.8%£34.05M£896.86M-1.802,300
GATC
Gattaca
N/AGBX 78.50
+1.3%
N/A-20.1%£23.57M£370.86M126.76446
RTC
RTC Group
N/AGBX 93.75
+1.4%
N/A+8.8%£12.13M£90.27M6.61361
EMR
Empresaria Group
N/AGBX 23.60
-5.6%
N/A-36.8%£11.10M£235.95M-1.883,150Gap Down
NBB
Norman Broadbent
N/AGBX 2.24
-13.8%
N/A-68.6%£1.39M£10.98M5.8352Gap Down
HAS
Hays
3.0352 of 5 stars
GBX 70
+2.9%
GBX 120
+71.4%
-21.2%£1.10B£6.91B-224.566,490
PAGE
PageGroup
2.9362 of 5 stars
GBX 262.40
+4.2%
GBX 495
+88.6%
-40.2%£822.24M£1.87B16.247,859
ZIG
Zigup
2.7377 of 5 stars
GBX 301
+1.7%
GBX 390
+29.6%
N/A£669.20M£1.82B5.387,906Insider Trade
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This page (LON:RWA) was last updated on 5/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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