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A stock pickersÂ’ paradise. Services Handbook

Key trends
Valuations for a number of stocks indicate that investors are looking for earnings upgrades in the coming months. However, given the low/no growth macro environment we anticipate investors will need to look at stock specific factors to achieve outperformance. The staffing segment provides one of the most pronounced examples of this, with the three largest UK quoted recruitment agencies trading on 17.5-25.4x (CY13 PER). By comparison there are interesting small cap staffing firms, such as Empresaria and Matchtech,
which are enjoying positive earnings momentum but are trading on significant PER discounts to their larger peers (71% and 36% respectively).
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