Randstad (OTCMKTS:RANJY) Shares Gap Up – Should You Buy?

Shares of Randstad Holding NV (OTCMKTS:RANJY) gapped up prior to trading on Friday . The stock had previously closed at $13.40, but opened at $14.28. Randstad shares last traded at $14.2820, with a volume of 885 shares changing hands.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Separately, Jefferies Financial Group downgraded shares of Randstad from a “strong-buy” rating to a “moderate sell” rating in a research report on Thursday, January 8th. One analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, three have issued a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Hold”.

Randstad Stock Up 4.9%

The company has a market capitalization of $5.01 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 15.12 and a beta of 0.92. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.39, a quick ratio of 1.18 and a current ratio of 1.21. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $14.75 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $17.62.

Randstad (OTCMKTS:RANJY) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 11th. The business services provider reported $0.45 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.41 by $0.04. The firm had revenue of $6.93 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $6.83 billion. Randstad had a return on equity of 11.47% and a net margin of 1.30%. As a group, equities analysts predict that Randstad Holding NV will post 1.63 EPS for the current year.

About Randstad

Randstad N.V. (OTCMKTS:RANJY) is a leading global provider of human resource services and workforce solutions. Headquartered in Diemen, Netherlands, the company specializes in connecting organizations with both temporary and permanent talent across a wide range of industries, including administrative, industrial, finance, engineering, healthcare and IT sectors.

The company’s service offering encompasses staffing and recruitment, inhouse services, professional and executive search, and managed services such as recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) and workforce management.