Financial Review: GEE Group (JOB) versus The Competition

Institutional & Insider Ownership

30.4% of GEE Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.6% of shares of all “Professional Services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 17.0% of GEE Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.0% of shares of all “Professional Services” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk and Volatility

GEE Group has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GEE Group’s peers have a beta of 0.95, suggesting that their average stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares GEE Group and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
GEE Group	-20.77%	-7.66%	-6.84%
GEE Group Competitors	-0.65%	19.36%	4.25%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares GEE Group and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
GEE Group	$84.22 million	-$24.10 million	24.56
GEE Group Competitors	$3.35 billion	$227.10 million	26.89

GEE Group’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than GEE Group. GEE Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

GEE Group peers beat GEE Group on 8 of the 9 factors compared.

About GEE Group

GEE Group Inc. provides permanent and temporary professional and industrial staffing and placement services in the United States. The company operates through two segments, Industrial Staffing Services and Professional Staffing Services. It offers placement of information technology, accounting, finance, office, engineering, engineering professionals for direct hire and contract staffing services, and data entry assistants; and temporary staffing services for industrial clients. The company also provides scribes that specialize in electronic medical record services for emergency departments, specialty physician practices, and clinics. It offers professional staffing services under the names of Access, Data Consulting, Agile Resources, Ashley Ellis, GEE Group (Columbus), Omni One, Paladin Consulting, Scribe Solutions, Accounting Now, Staffing Now, SNI Banking, SNI Certes, SNI Energy, SNI Financial, and SNI Technology; and light industrial contract labor under the Triad Staffing brand. The company was formerly known as General Employment Enterprises, Inc. and changed its name to GEE Group Inc. in July 2016. GEE Group Inc. was founded in 1893 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.