HAS vs. PAGE, STEM, HILS, TPK, BOY, MTO, SMS, CKN, RHIM, and DATA
Should you be buying Hays stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hays include PageGroup (PAGE), SThree (STEM), Hill & Smith (HILS), Travis Perkins (TPK), Bodycote (BOY), Mitie Group (MTO), Smart Metering Systems (SMS), Clarkson (CKN), RHI Magnesita (RHIM), and GlobalData (DATA). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
PageGroup (LON:PAGE) and Hays (LON:HAS) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking and media sentiment.
PageGroup has a net margin of 3.83% compared to PageGroup's net margin of 1.15%. Hays' return on equity of 23.40% beat PageGroup's return on equity.
PageGroup pays an annual dividend of GBX 16 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Hays pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. PageGroup pays out 5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Hays pays out 6,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. PageGroup is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Hays received 600 more outperform votes than PageGroup when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.37% of users gave Hays an outperform vote while only 58.42% of users gave PageGroup an outperform vote.
PageGroup has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hays has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
PageGroup currently has a consensus price target of GBX 515, indicating a potential upside of 15.01%. Hays has a consensus price target of GBX 150, indicating a potential upside of 62.87%. Given PageGroup's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Hays is more favorable than PageGroup.
Hays has higher revenue and earnings than PageGroup. PageGroup is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hays, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Hays' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled PageGroup'saverage media sentiment score.
90.7% of PageGroup shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.3% of Hays shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.7% of PageGroup shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Hays shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
PageGroup beats Hays on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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