RWA vs. STEM, CWR, PRV, RCDO, ELIX, FNTL, LUCE, RST, GFRD, and VP
Should you be buying Robert Walters stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Robert Walters include SThree (STEM), Ceres Power (CWR), Porvair (PRV), Ricardo (RCDO), Elixirr International (ELIX), Fintel (FNTL), Luceco (LUCE), Restore (RST), Galliford Try (GFRD), and VP (VP). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
SThree (LON:STEM) and Robert Walters (LON:RWA) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
SThree has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Robert Walters has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SThree currently has a consensus price target of GBX 470, suggesting a potential upside of 10.46%. Given Robert Walters' higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe SThree is more favorable than Robert Walters.
79.6% of SThree shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.4% of Robert Walters shares are held by institutional investors. 6.3% of SThree shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.5% of Robert Walters shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
SThree pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Robert Walters pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. 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. 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.
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 1.07 beat Robert Walters' score of 0.00 indicating that Robert Walters is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
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.
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.
Summary
SThree beats Robert Walters on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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