STAF vs. ACRL, ULS, FA, ROL, ABM, LEAF, LRD, PAYS, SPRT, and FOUR
Should you be buying Staffline Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Staffline Group include Accrol Group (ACRL), ULS Technology (ULS), FireAngel Safety Technology Group (FA), Rotala (ROL), African Battery Metals (ABM), Leaf Clean Energy (LEAF), Laird (LRD), Paysafe Group (PAYS), Spirit Pub (SPRT), and 4imprint Group (FOUR). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Accrol Group (LON:ACRL) and Staffline Group (LON:STAF) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking and valuation.
83.9% of Accrol Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.8% of Staffline Group shares are held by institutional investors. 7.9% of Accrol Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 49.2% of Staffline Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Staffline Group has a net margin of -1.17% compared to Staffline Group's net margin of -1.99%. Staffline Group's return on equity of -5.45% beat Accrol Group's return on equity.
Accrol Group has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Staffline Group has a beta of 1.68, meaning that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Staffline Group received 159 more outperform votes than Accrol Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.51% of users gave Staffline Group an outperform vote while only 69.07% of users gave Accrol Group an outperform vote.
Accrol Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Staffline Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 25 per share and has a dividend yield of 60.2%. Accrol Group pays out -10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Staffline Group pays out -50,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Staffline Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Accrol Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Staffline Group. Accrol Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Staffline Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Staffline Group had 3 more articles in the media than Accrol Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Staffline Group and 0 mentions for Accrol Group. Staffline Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Accrol Group's score of -0.11 indicating that Accrol Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Staffline Group beats Accrol Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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