Five recruitment stocks that continue to trounce the market

Small cap recruitment companies have soared in price over the past 12 months, with bullish investors attracted by their exposure to an improving economic outlook in the UK and beyond. Yet despite the leaps in price, a number of these shares are still valued moderately. Not only that, but they offer top-notch quality and momentum signals too. So how do the top ranking recruiters stack up? We put Stockopedia’s Stock Comparison tool to work...

Figures from the Office for National Statistics (see their chart below) confirmed recently that UK employment rates have hit a five-year high. Staffing firms that supply temporary and permanent workers have naturally benefited from this rise, with growing earnings and corresponding improvements in share prices. Currently, five of these stocks rank in the top 2% of the market based on Stockopedia’s StockRanks - a blended range of metrics that analyse each company’s Quality, Value and Momentum (QVM). No other sector boasts such a concentration of high ranking companies, with nearly all of them showing continued relative price strength in recent months. Using Stockopedia’s Stock Comparison tool it’s possible to get a side-by-side comparison of where each of these shares is excelling (or failing).