STEM vs. RWA, HAS, PAGE, KIE, VLX, CGEO, JSG, RWS, GDWN, and MEGP
Should you be buying SThree stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SThree include Robert Walters (RWA), Hays (HAS), PageGroup (PAGE), Kier Group (KIE), Volex (VLX), Georgia Capital (CGEO), Johnson Service Group (JSG), RWS (RWS), Goodwin (GDWN), and ME Group International (MEGP). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Robert Walters (LON:RWA) and SThree (LON:STEM) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and profitability.
SThree has a net margin of 3.37% compared to SThree's net margin of 1.26%. Robert Walters' return on equity of 26.48% beat SThree's return on equity.
In the previous week, Robert Walters had 2 more articles in the media than SThree. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Robert Walters and 0 mentions for SThree. SThree's average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat Robert Walters' score of 0.00 indicating that Robert Walters is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Robert Walters has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SThree has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Robert Walters received 431 more outperform votes than SThree when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 86.67% of users gave SThree an outperform vote while only 84.94% of users gave Robert Walters an outperform vote.
SThree has a consensus target price of GBX 470, suggesting a potential upside of 10.46%. Given Robert Walters' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe SThree is more favorable than Robert Walters.
77.4% of Robert Walters shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.6% of SThree shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.5% of Robert Walters shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of SThree shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Robert Walters pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. SThree pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Robert Walters pays out 6,857.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SThree pays out 4,047.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
SThree has higher revenue and earnings than Robert Walters. SThree is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Robert Walters, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
SThree beats Robert Walters on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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