ManpowerGroup (MAN) Stock Analysis
Industrials · Staffing & Employment Services
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $30.43: Quality below floor (1.9 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 5.2/10. Specifically: High short interest: 17%; Below-average business quality; Below long-term trend.
ManpowerGroup Inc. provides workforce solutions and services under the Manpower, the Experis, and the Talent Solutions brands in the Americas, Southern Europe, Northern Europe, and the Asia Pacific/the Middle East. The company offers recruitment services, including permanent,... Read more
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $30.43: Quality below floor (1.9 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 5.2/10. Specifically: High short interest: 17%; Below-average business quality; Below long-term trend. Chart setup: No recognized chart pattern (not a breakout, bounce, continuation, recovery, falling knife, or range) — technicals mixed. Score 5.2/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 6/9 gates (positive momentum, clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news events none recent, earnings proximity 76d clear, semi cycle peak clear). Fails on favorable risk/reward ratio and death cross (50MA < 200MA). Suitability: aggressive.
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2 floor-breakers
Unprofitable operations — net margin -0.1%. Quality floor flags this regardless of sector context.static
Technicals below the gate floor. Component breakdown shows what dragged the score down.static
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Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $30.43: Quality below floor (1.9 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 5.2/10. Specifically: High short interest: 17%; Below-average business quality; Below long-term trend. Chart setup: No recognized chart pattern (not a breakout, bounce, continuation, recovery, falling knife, or range) — technicals mixed. Prior stop was $28.30. Score 5.2/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $31.27 (+2.8% upside). Prior stop was $28.30. Stop-loss: $28.30.
Target reached (2.8% upside); Quality below floor (1.9 < 4.0); Value-trap signals (2/5): High leverage (D/E 122.3), Material insider selling (5 sells, 0.04% of cap).
ManpowerGroup trades at a P/E of N/A (forward 6.4). TrendMatrix value score: 8.5/10. Verdict: Sell.
16 analysts cover MAN with a consensus score of 3.6/5. Average price target: $36.
What does ManpowerGroup do?ManpowerGroup Inc. provides workforce solutions and services under the Manpower, the Experis, and the Talent Solutions...
ManpowerGroup Inc. provides workforce solutions and services under the Manpower, the Experis, and the Talent Solutions brands in the Americas, Southern Europe, Northern Europe, and the Asia Pacific/the Middle East. The company offers recruitment services, including permanent, temporary, and contract recruitment of professionals, as well as administrative, industrial, and information technology professional positions; assessment, upskilling, reskilling, training and development, career management, and workforce consulting services; and outsourcing services related to human resources functions primarily in the areas of large-scale recruiting and workforce-intensive initiatives. It also offers contingent staffing and permanent recruitment services; information technology professional resourcing and project services; and recruitment process outsourcing solutions; and right management services, as well as TAPFIN, a managed service provider solution. ManpowerGroup Inc. was incorporated in 1948 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.