MAN vs. NSP, KFRC, RHI, INST, CRVL, BCO, CD, SPXC, EXPO, and MQ
Should you be buying ManpowerGroup stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ManpowerGroup include Insperity (NSP), Kforce (KFRC), Robert Half (RHI), Instructure (INST), CorVel (CRVL), Brink's (BCO), Chindata Group (CD), SPX Technologies (SPXC), Exponent (EXPO), and Marqeta (MQ). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Insperity (NYSE:NSP) and ManpowerGroup (NYSE:MAN) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
Insperity presently has a consensus target price of $115.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.40%. ManpowerGroup has a consensus target price of $85.29, indicating a potential upside of 12.41%. Given Insperity's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ManpowerGroup is more favorable than Insperity.
ManpowerGroup received 243 more outperform votes than Insperity when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.92% of users gave Insperity an outperform vote while only 64.69% of users gave ManpowerGroup an outperform vote.
91.1% of Insperity shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.8% of ManpowerGroup shares are held by institutional investors. 5.6% of Insperity shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of ManpowerGroup shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Insperity has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ManpowerGroup has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ManpowerGroup has higher revenue and earnings than Insperity. ManpowerGroup is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Insperity, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Insperity had 6 more articles in the media than ManpowerGroup. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Insperity and 4 mentions for ManpowerGroup. Insperity's average media sentiment score of 0.12 beat ManpowerGroup's score of -0.13 indicating that ManpowerGroup is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Insperity pays an annual dividend of $2.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. ManpowerGroup pays an annual dividend of $2.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Insperity pays out 46.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ManpowerGroup pays out 67.6% 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. Insperity has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years and ManpowerGroup has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years.
Insperity has a net margin of 2.97% compared to Insperity's net margin of 1.16%. ManpowerGroup's return on equity of 177.45% beat Insperity's return on equity.
Summary
Insperity and ManpowerGroup tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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