51job (JOBS) & Staffing 360 Solutions (STAF) Head to Head Analysis

51job (NASDAQ: JOBS) and Staffing 360 Solutions (NASDAQ:STAF) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for 51job and Staffing 360 Solutions, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
51job	0	0	1	0	3.00
Staffing 360 Solutions	0	0	0	1	4.00

51job currently has a consensus target price of $60.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.34%. Staffing 360 Solutions has a consensus target price of $2.00, indicating a potential upside of 270.37%. Given Staffing 360 Solutions’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Staffing 360 Solutions is more favorable than 51job.

Profitability

This table compares 51job and Staffing 360 Solutions’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
51job	21.23%	14.29%	9.19%
Staffing 360 Solutions	-3.78%	-86.16%	-12.57%

Risk and Volatility

51job has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Staffing 360 Solutions has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

41.8% of 51job shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.6% of Staffing 360 Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.8% of Staffing 360 Solutions shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares 51job and Staffing 360 Solutions’ revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	EBITDA	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
51job	$380.87 million	9.36	$116.19 million	$1.35	43.01
Staffing 360 Solutions	$180.94 million	0.05	$4.34 million	($0.69)	-0.78

51job has higher revenue and earnings than Staffing 360 Solutions. Staffing 360 Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than 51job, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

51job beats Staffing 360 Solutions on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About 51job

51job, Inc. is a holding company. The Company is a provider of integrated human resource services in China. The Company focuses on online recruitment advertising. The Company operates over three Websites, including www.51job.com, www.yingjiesheng.com and www.51jingying.com, which are utilized by a base of corporate employers, reach an audience of job seekers and aggregate job information from over 100 cities across China. The Company provides a range of human resource services in the categories, such as recruitment advertising services, including online recruitment services provided by its Websites, and other human resource related services, including business process outsourcing, training, campus recruitment, professional assessment tools, salary and other human resource related surveys, human resource conferences and executive search services.

About Staffing 360 Solutions

Staffing 360 Solutions, Inc. operates in the staffing sector. The Company is engaged in the execution of a global buy-and-build strategy through the acquisition of domestic and international staffing organizations in the United States and the United Kingdom. Its targeted consolidation model is focused on the finance and accounting, administrative, engineering and information technology (IT) staffing space.