STEM vs. RWA, PAGE, HAS, MEGP, VLX, GDWN, OCN, KIE, JSG, and RWS
Should you be buying SThree stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SThree include Robert Walters (RWA), PageGroup (PAGE), Hays (HAS), ME Group International (MEGP), Volex (VLX), Goodwin (GDWN), Ocean Wilsons (OCN), Kier Group (KIE), Johnson Service Group (JSG), and RWS (RWS). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Robert Walters (LON:RWA) and SThree (LON:STEM) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
Robert Walters pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. SThree pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Robert Walters pays out 12,631.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SThree pays out 4,146.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
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.
In the previous week, SThree had 1 more articles in the media than Robert Walters. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for SThree and 0 mentions for Robert Walters. Robert Walters' average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat SThree's score of 0.00 indicating that SThree is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
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 has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SThree has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SThree has a consensus target price of GBX 470, indicating a potential upside of 9.94%. Given Robert Walters' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SThree is more favorable than Robert Walters.
80.2% of Robert Walters shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.6% of SThree shares are held by institutional investors. 19.9% of Robert Walters shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of SThree shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
SThree beats Robert Walters on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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