Report
Michael Field
EUR 101.80 For Business Accounts Only

A Minor Stumble for Recruitment Giant Randstad in Q3

No-moat Randstad’s third-quarter update was a mixed bag. Organic revenue growth was a whopping 9%, and gross profit remained strong, growing at 7.7% organically over the period. However, although EBITA was up sequentially quarter on quarter, it fell short of our and Wall Street's expectations. We expect to make some adjustments to our near-term forecasts on the back of these numbers, but do not expect that this will have a material effect on our EUR 56 fair value estimate. We believe the shares ...
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Randstad NV

Randstad is a global staffing and recruitment company, providing various solutions in the human resources (HR) services space. Co.'s services include regular temporary staffing and permanent placement of candidates. In addition, Co. provides several other HR solutions, such as Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), Managed Services Programs (MSP), payroll services, and outplacement. Co. provides four distinct service concepts: Staffing, Inhouse Services, Professionals and HR Solutions.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Michael Field

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