RHI vs. TW, ASGN, NSP, KFY, MAN, KFRC, BBSI, KELYA, HSII, and TBI
Should you be buying Robert Half stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Robert Half include Tradeweb Markets (TW), ASGN (ASGN), Insperity (NSP), Korn Ferry (KFY), ManpowerGroup (MAN), Kforce (KFRC), Barrett Business Services (BBSI), Kelly Services (KELYA), Heidrick & Struggles International (HSII), and TrueBlue (TBI). These companies are all part of the "human resource & employment services" industry.
Robert Half (NYSE:RHI) and Tradeweb Markets (NASDAQ:TW) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, profitability, risk, media sentiment and valuation.
Robert Half pays an annual dividend of $2.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Tradeweb Markets pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Robert Half pays out 63.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tradeweb Markets pays out 21.2% 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 higher revenue and earnings than Tradeweb Markets. Robert Half is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tradeweb Markets, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Tradeweb Markets has a net margin of 28.44% compared to Robert Half's net margin of 5.26%. Robert Half's return on equity of 20.14% beat Tradeweb Markets' return on equity.
Robert Half currently has a consensus price target of $66.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.92%. Tradeweb Markets has a consensus price target of $113.18, indicating a potential upside of 5.94%. Given Tradeweb Markets' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Tradeweb Markets is more favorable than Robert Half.
Robert Half has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tradeweb Markets has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
92.4% of Robert Half shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.5% of Tradeweb Markets shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of Robert Half shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Tradeweb Markets shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Robert Half had 17 more articles in the media than Tradeweb Markets. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Robert Half and 14 mentions for Tradeweb Markets. Robert Half's average media sentiment score of 0.12 beat Tradeweb Markets' score of 0.11 indicating that Robert Half is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Robert Half received 94 more outperform votes than Tradeweb Markets when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.66% of users gave Tradeweb Markets an outperform vote while only 61.44% of users gave Robert Half an outperform vote.
Summary
Robert Half beats Tradeweb Markets on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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