Primary Recommendation

Hays Recruitment firm forecast to increase eps 154% by 2019

April 2015

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Specialist recruitment firms can be volatile because their performances are highly geared to the economic fortunes of the countries they operate in, but there are periods in an up-cycle when investors can make decent money and it’s no coincidence that all four quoted staffers, Hays, SThree, Robert Walters and Michael Page, sit near their highs. Hays, the subject of this write-up, likes to boast that between the years ended June 2010-2014 it generated more profit than all the other three combined, reflecting a hard nosed cost culture and the fact that it has the broadest geographic reach with interests in 33 countries and 20 specialism’s. Hays is clearly not afraid to make punchy statements and another equally punchy one which caught our ...

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