Professional Services... One of the most undervalued industries

Discussion in 'Stocks' started by TazTheLaz, Apr 21, 2022.

  1. TazTheLaz

    TazTheLaz

    ManpowerGroup, Kforce, Robert Half, and Hendrick & Struggles all have flawless balance sheets, yet nobody has caught on yet. Not to mention excellent dividends, also. I see professional services/temp work being a growth industry in the future, especially with the Lean Startup model becoming more popular under startups. Is there a reason why these companies are undervalued?
     
  2. maxinger

    maxinger


    We don't believe what you say.
    We don't believe how great the balance sheet and dividends are.
    And we don't care whether it is the most undervalued or most overvalued stock.
    And we don't allow our minds to be contaminated with all this cunning information.

    We only believe what the chart says.

    Good luck with your ManpowerGroup investment, Mr TazTheLazy
     
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  3. mikeriley

    mikeriley

    Just my opinion, it's possible sophisticated investors understand
    the economy is changing where many of those transitional
    jobs are being replaced with robotics and other modernized
    inventions, therefore reducing growth for those industries.

    Many Restaurants and other service industries are having a
    difficult time finding help as the consequences of Covid has
    led many to reexamine earning an income via dead-end low
    paying employment.

    Everything has changed, including past investment
    models.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/06/20/us-economy-changes/
     
  4. M.W.

    M.W.

    What value do they add again? They are middle men who produce nothing, design nothing, create nothing, and only exist to accelerate the death of the common man. Do you HONESTLY believe America will be better off with millions of entrepreneurs (you can't find millions of smart people but I just try to make a point) who employ hordes of temp workers who don't earn enough to ever feed or found a family compared to a society where work is actually valued and regulations are in place to enforce a minimum of temporary employment in favor of good, well paying jobs for hard working, skilled and educated people?

    Look at the example of Japan. They are wondering why the birth rate is dropping like a stone. People don't get married or at least don't have kids anymore because the entire Japanese manufacturing and service industry migrated to a temp worker model. No more job security that enables a human to plan into the future. This is what you get, a society of gig workers, poorly protected in terms of health benefits and social benefits, poorly educated, poorly motivated.

    Good luck with the temp worker economic model. It failed utterly each time it was implemented. Why governments don't shut those make a few rich and everyone else poor schemes down is beyond me.

    Perhaps we should really start fighting a tyrannical government that sells out everyone in the middle class.

     
  5. TazTheLaz

    TazTheLaz

    I didn't mean that kind of temp work. Those 4 companies are more like consulting/outsourcing firms. Even though temp work like gigs won't be successful, outsourcing companies probably will.
     
  6. TazTheLaz

    TazTheLaz

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  7. HOGWASH!
     
  8. You know of an ETF for this group?
     
  9. TazTheLaz

    TazTheLaz

    Why not just buy the 4 companies? They are all in a good financial shape, and pay a good divvy
     
  10. The reason I ask about an ETF it that it would reflect the "views on the group" in general.
     
    #10     Apr 21, 2022