Report
Michael Field

A Reasonable Start to the Year for Randstad

No-moat recruitment giant Randstad produced a decent set of first-quarter figures. The strong trend of growth witnessed in 2017 continued for the most part into the first quarter, with organic revenue growth of 7.4%. However, this was somewhat offset by adverse foreign exchange movements, knocking 4.5% off the top line as the euro strengthened against the U.S. dollar over the period. Meanwhile, the EBITA margin held flat year over year at 3.8% on an underlying basis. We do not expect to make any...
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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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