Financial Contrast: GEE Group (JOB) versus The Competition

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares GEE Group and its rivals revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
GEE Group	$84.22 million	-$24.10 million	26.00
GEE Group Competitors	$3.32 billion	$226.63 million	26.88

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

Profitability

This table compares GEE Group and its rivals’ 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	-0.66%	19.27%	4.25%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

30.4% of GEE Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.5% of shares of all “Professional Services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 17.0% of GEE Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.1% of shares of all “Professional Services” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Risk and Volatility

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

Summary

GEE Group rivals beat GEE Group on 9 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.