MAN vs. NSP, KFRC, RHI, CNXC, CBZ, CXT, ENV, BCO, DNB, and CRVL
Should you be buying ManpowerGroup stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ManpowerGroup include Insperity (NSP), Kforce (KFRC), Robert Half (RHI), Concentrix (CNXC), CBIZ (CBZ), Crane NXT (CXT), Envestnet (ENV), Brink's (BCO), Dun & Bradstreet (DNB), and CorVel (CRVL). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Insperity (NYSE:NSP) and ManpowerGroup (NYSE:MAN) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends and institutional ownership.
Insperity has a net margin of 2.39% compared to Insperity's net margin of 0.27%. ManpowerGroup's return on equity of 137.14% beat Insperity's return on equity.
Insperity pays an annual dividend of $2.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. ManpowerGroup pays an annual dividend of $2.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Insperity pays out 55.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ManpowerGroup pays out 303.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Insperity has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years and ManpowerGroup has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years.
Insperity currently has a consensus price target of $115.00, suggesting a potential upside of 10.46%. ManpowerGroup has a consensus price target of $83.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.90%. Given ManpowerGroup's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Insperity is more favorable than ManpowerGroup.
In the previous week, Insperity had 13 more articles in the media than ManpowerGroup. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Insperity and 6 mentions for ManpowerGroup. Insperity's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat ManpowerGroup's score of 0.35 indicating that ManpowerGroup is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
93.4% of Insperity shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.0% of ManpowerGroup shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.5% of Insperity shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of ManpowerGroup shares are owned by 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.
ManpowerGroup received 237 more outperform votes than Insperity when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.81% of users gave Insperity an outperform vote while only 64.11% of users gave ManpowerGroup an outperform vote.
Insperity has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ManpowerGroup has a beta of 1.5, meaning that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Insperity has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ManpowerGroup. Insperity is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ManpowerGroup, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Insperity beats ManpowerGroup on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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