Cap Gemini (OTCMKTS:CGEMY) and Adecco (OTCMKTS:AHEXY) Head to Head Review

Cap Gemini (OTCMKTS:CGEMY) and Adecco (OTCMKTS:AHEXY) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.

Volatility and Risk

Cap Gemini has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Adecco has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

0.1% of Cap Gemini shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Cap Gemini and Adecco, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cap Gemini	0	0	0	0	0.00
Adecco	1	0	1	2	3.00

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Cap Gemini and Adecco”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cap Gemini	$23.91 billion	1.08	$1.81 billion	N/A	N/A
Adecco	$25.04 billion	0.21	$327.88 million	$0.92	17.20

Cap Gemini has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Adecco.

Dividends

Cap Gemini pays an annual dividend of $0.51 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Adecco pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Adecco pays out 34.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Profitability

This table compares Cap Gemini and Adecco’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cap Gemini	N/A	N/A	N/A
Adecco	1.26%	11.74%	3.38%

Summary

Adecco beats Cap Gemini on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Cap Gemini

Capgemini SE, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of consulting, digital transformation, technology, and engineering services primarily in North America, France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the rest of Europe, the Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. The company offers strategy and transformation services in strategy, technology, data science, and creative design fields to support companies and organizations in creating new models and new products within the digital economy. It also provides applications and technology services that helps the clients to develop, modernize, extend, and secure their IT and digital environment, as well as designs and develops technological solutions in data strategy and architecture, data engineering, information governance, data science and analytics, artificial intelligence, and data-driven innovation fields. In addition, the company offers cloud infrastructure services for its clients to build an optimal, agile, and secure foundation for business transformations; and business process outsourcing and transactional services, as well as installation and maintenance services for its clients' IT infrastructures in data centers or in the cloud. It serves various industries, including consumer goods and retail; energy and utilities; banking, capital markets, and insurance; manufacturing and life sciences; public sector; telecommunications, media, and technology; and services. Capgemini SE has strategic partnerships with Adobe, AWS, Aveva, Dassault Systèmes, DELL, Duck Creek, Google, Guidewire, IBM/Redhat, Intel, Majesco, Microsoft, Mistral AI, Nvidia, OpenText, Oracle, Pega, PTC, Qualcomm, Salesforce, SAP, Schneider Electric, Siemens, ServiceNow, Tenemos, UiPath, Unity, Verizon, and VMware. The company was incorporated in 1967 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

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.