NSP vs. RHI, ASGN, KFY, MAN, KFRC, BBSI, KELYA, HSII, TBI, and HSON
Should you be buying Insperity stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Insperity include Robert Half (RHI), ASGN (ASGN), Korn Ferry (KFY), ManpowerGroup (MAN), Kforce (KFRC), Barrett Business Services (BBSI), Kelly Services (KELYA), Heidrick & Struggles International (HSII), TrueBlue (TBI), and Hudson Global (HSON). These companies are all part of the "human resource & employment services" industry.
Insperity (NYSE:NSP) and Robert Half (NYSE:RHI) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.
93.4% of Insperity shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of Robert Half shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.5% of Insperity shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Robert Half shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Insperity presently has a consensus price target of $109.50, indicating a potential upside of 7.51%. Robert Half has a consensus price target of $66.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.92%. Given Insperity's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Insperity is more favorable than Robert Half.
Insperity pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Robert Half pays an annual dividend of $2.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Insperity pays out 58.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Robert Half pays out 63.5% 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.
Robert Half has a net margin of 5.26% compared to Insperity's net margin of 2.39%. Insperity's return on equity of 137.14% beat Robert Half's return on equity.
Insperity has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Robert Half has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Robert Half had 19 more articles in the media than Insperity. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Robert Half and 12 mentions for Insperity. Insperity's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Robert Half's score of 0.12 indicating that Insperity is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Robert Half has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Insperity. Robert Half is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Insperity, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Robert Half received 169 more outperform votes than Insperity when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.81% of users gave Insperity an outperform vote while only 61.44% of users gave Robert Half an outperform vote.
Summary
Insperity beats Robert Half on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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