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Can Robert Half (RHI) Make a Comeback on Solid Labor Market?
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With improving economic and labor market conditions, hiring services in the United States have gradually picked up pace. Moreover, rising levels of competition across several industries globally, have triggered companies to seek professional level talent for fulfilling human resource needs, leading to the recruitment of highly-skilled employees.
However, Robert Half International Inc (RHI - Free Report) , one of the world’s leading staffing solutions provider, is yet to reap significant gains from the improving staffing industry conditions. The company has been facing sluggishness across its segments owing to weak hiring activity. While it has been investing heavily in improving its software and technology capabilities, the company is still waiting to achieve a turnaround.
Let’s now take a closer look at some of the factors impacting Robert Half’s performance.
Weak Hiring Trend in The Domestic Market
Despite a stable U.S. economic environment and a stronger job market, the hiring cycle remains lengthy as employers take more time for hiring decisions, which is negatively affecting the company’s profits. In fact, Robert Half’s Global Staffing Division revenues declined 2.2% and 3% year over year, during the first and second quarters of 2017, respectively. Although the hiring segment saw positive impacts from the growth in revenues from its international operations, the same were insufficient to offset the decline in revenues from domestic operations.
Protiviti Fails to Deliver Results
Protiviti is the wholly-owned subsidiary of Robert Half, offering varied risk consulting and audit services. Of late, the segment has been depicting weakness owing to declining margins and fewer high-margin clients. Soft revenues from the international operations of Protiviti had also pulled down the overall revenues of the company, when it released second-quarter 2017 results.
Growth Prospects
In an effort to counter ongoing challenges and gain opportunities for growth, Robert Half, that shares space with Insperity, Inc (NSP - Free Report) , BG Staffing, Inc (BGSF - Free Report) and DLH Holdings Corp (DLHC - Free Report) , has been heavily investing in technology infrastructure and implementing improved software systems. Major software initiatives include upgrades to enterprise resource planning applications and the implementation of a global, cloud-based customer relationship management application.
Robert Half remains hopeful regarding improvements in the hiring activity in the United States as companies are increasingly using temporary and consulting professionals as part of their human resource mix. More than half of the new-job growth predicted through 2020 is expected to come from the temporary staffing arena
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Can Robert Half (RHI) Make a Comeback on Solid Labor Market?
With improving economic and labor market conditions, hiring services in the United States have gradually picked up pace. Moreover, rising levels of competition across several industries globally, have triggered companies to seek professional level talent for fulfilling human resource needs, leading to the recruitment of highly-skilled employees.
However, Robert Half International Inc (RHI - Free Report) , one of the world’s leading staffing solutions provider, is yet to reap significant gains from the improving staffing industry conditions. The company has been facing sluggishness across its segments owing to weak hiring activity. While it has been investing heavily in improving its software and technology capabilities, the company is still waiting to achieve a turnaround.
Let’s now take a closer look at some of the factors impacting Robert Half’s performance.
Weak Hiring Trend in The Domestic Market
Despite a stable U.S. economic environment and a stronger job market, the hiring cycle remains lengthy as employers take more time for hiring decisions, which is negatively affecting the company’s profits. In fact, Robert Half’s Global Staffing Division revenues declined 2.2% and 3% year over year, during the first and second quarters of 2017, respectively. Although the hiring segment saw positive impacts from the growth in revenues from its international operations, the same were insufficient to offset the decline in revenues from domestic operations.
Protiviti Fails to Deliver Results
Protiviti is the wholly-owned subsidiary of Robert Half, offering varied risk consulting and audit services. Of late, the segment has been depicting weakness owing to declining margins and fewer high-margin clients. Soft revenues from the international operations of Protiviti had also pulled down the overall revenues of the company, when it released second-quarter 2017 results.
Growth Prospects
In an effort to counter ongoing challenges and gain opportunities for growth, Robert Half, that shares space with Insperity, Inc (NSP - Free Report) , BG Staffing, Inc (BGSF - Free Report) and DLH Holdings Corp (DLHC - Free Report) , has been heavily investing in technology infrastructure and implementing improved software systems. Major software initiatives include upgrades to enterprise resource planning applications and the implementation of a global, cloud-based customer relationship management application.
Robert Half remains hopeful regarding improvements in the hiring activity in the United States as companies are increasingly using temporary and consulting professionals as part of their human resource mix. More than half of the new-job growth predicted through 2020 is expected to come from the temporary staffing arena
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It could become the mother of all technological revolutions. Apple sold a mere 1 billion iPhones in 10 years but a new breakthrough is expected to generate more than 27 billion devices in just 3 years, creating a $1.7 trillion market.
Zacks has just released a Special Report that spotlights this fast-emerging phenomenon and 6 tickers for taking advantage of it. If you don't buy now, you may kick yourself in 2020.
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