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Robert Walters (RWA) Competitors

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GBX 218 -1.00 (-0.46%)
As of 10:04 AM Eastern

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

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), Empresaria Group (EMR), RTC Group (RTC), Norman Broadbent (NBB), Hays (HAS), PageGroup (PAGE), and Volex (VLX). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.

Robert Walters vs.

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

75.5% of Robert Walters shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.4% of Impellam Group shares are held by institutional investors. 19.7% of Robert Walters shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 85.8% of Impellam Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

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
Robert Walters£1.07B0.15£6.27M£8.6725.26
Impellam Group£2.04B0.00£15.70M£0.35N/A

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

In the previous week, Robert Walters' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Impellam Group'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Robert Walters Neutral
Impellam Group Neutral

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
Robert Walters0.58% 3.65% 2.39%
Impellam Group 0.32%7.78%1.23%

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

Robert Walters pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.0%. Impellam Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 112 per share. 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. 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

Robert Walters beats Impellam Group on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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RWA vs. The Competition

MetricRobert WaltersStaffing & Employment Services IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£156.22M£268.13M£7.63B£2.63B
Dividend Yield8.08%5.93%4.58%5.05%
P/E Ratio25.2615.2223.15131.94
Price / Sales0.1513.9590.79224,643.37
Price / Cash3.2614.6326.9428.03
Price / Book0.961.553.973.80
Net Income£6.27M£10.32M£807.24M£5.88B
7 Day Performance0.43%4.56%0.11%0.37%
1 Month Performance-8.01%7.59%10.56%21.42%
1 Year Performance-46.07%-13.38%26.17%129.67%

Robert Walters Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
RWA
Robert Walters
N/AGBX 218
-0.5%
N/A-43.6%£155.55M£1.07B25.153,980
IPEL
Impellam Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£389.29M£2.04B2,500.001,783
STEM
SThree
3.6386 of 5 stars
GBX 241.50
-1.8%
GBX 345
+42.9%
-47.2%£315.24M£1.47B6.392,280Gap Down
STAF
Staffline Group
N/AGBX 28
+3.7%
N/A+21.7%£36.32M£896.86M-1.922,300
GATC
Gattaca
N/AGBX 80
+1.9%
N/A-15.6%£24.02M£370.86M129.19446
EMR
Empresaria Group
N/AGBX 29.36
-8.3%
N/A-34.5%£13.81M£235.95M-2.333,150Gap Up
RTC
RTC Group
N/AGBX 92.22
+2.5%
N/A+1.1%£11.93M£90.27M6.50361Positive News
Gap Up
NBB
Norman Broadbent
N/AGBX 2.75
-5.2%
N/A-51.2%£1.71M£10.98M7.1552Gap Down
HAS
Hays
3.362 of 5 stars
GBX 75.50
-1.6%
GBX 120
+58.9%
-33.4%£1.19B£6.91B-242.206,490
PAGE
PageGroup
3.3778 of 5 stars
GBX 287.40
-0.6%
GBX 495
+72.2%
-43.6%£900.58M£1.87B17.797,859Positive News
Gap Up
VLX
Volex
2.7504 of 5 stars
GBX 269
+0.6%
GBX 370
+37.5%
-22.8%£623.91M£1.29B14.4812,000News Coverage

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This page (LON:RWA) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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