Adecco (OTCMKTS:AHEXY – Get Free Report) and Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ:HURN – Get Free Report) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability and earnings.
Profitability
This table compares Adecco and Huron Consulting Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Adecco | 1.25% | 12.78% | 3.67% |
| Huron Consulting Group | 6.38% | 32.33% | 9.29% |
Risk & Volatility
Adecco has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Huron Consulting Group has a beta of 0.06, indicating that its share price is 94% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Adecco | $26.11 billion | 0.20 | $333.76 million | $1.01 | 14.52 |
| Huron Consulting Group | $1.70 billion | 1.51 | $105.04 million | $6.68 | 24.13 |
Adecco has higher revenue and earnings than Huron Consulting Group. Adecco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Huron Consulting Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Adecco and Huron Consulting Group, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Adecco | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2.17 |
| Huron Consulting Group | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3.00 |
Huron Consulting Group has a consensus price target of $184.25, indicating a potential upside of 14.29%. Given Huron Consulting Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Huron Consulting Group is more favorable than Adecco.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
93.9% of Huron Consulting Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of Huron Consulting Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Huron Consulting Group beats Adecco on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Adecco
Adecco Group AG, together with its subsidiaries, provides human resource services to businesses and organizations in Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, South America, and North Africa. It offers flexible placement, permanent placement, outsourcing, training, upskilling and reskilling, career transition and workforce transformation, consulting, talent academy, digital staffing solutions under the Adecco, Akkodis, General Assembly, Badenoch + Clark, Lee Hecht Harrison, pontoon, Spring Professional, Adia, Modis, and YOSS brand names. The company also operates Hired, a talent recruitment platform. The company was formerly known as Adecco S.A. Adecco Group AG was founded in 1957 and is based in Zurich, Switzerland.
About Huron Consulting Group
Huron Consulting Group Inc., a professional services firm, provides consultancy services in the United States and internationally. It operates through three segments: Healthcare, Education, and Commercial. The Healthcare segment provides financial and operational performance improvement consulting services; digital offerings, spanning technology and analytic-related services; software products; organizational transformation services; revenue cycle managed and outsourcing services; financial and capital advisory consulting services; and strategy and innovation consulting services to national and regional health systems, academic and community health systems, federal health system, public, children’s and critical access hospitals, physician practices and medical groups, payors, and long-term care or post-acute providers. The Education segment provides digital solutions, spanning technology, and analytic-related services; Huron Research product suite, a software suite designed to facilitate and enhance research administration service delivery and compliance; research-focused consulting and managed services; strategy and operations consulting services for public and private colleges and universities, research institutes, and other education-related organizations. The Commercial segment delivers digital services and software products, and financial advisory services to financial, energy and utilities, professional and business services, life science, consumer products, and industrials and manufacturing industries, as well as public sector and nonprofit organizations. The company was incorporated in 2002 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
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