UK 15:49 Sunday, 4 October 2026
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Pink Floyd (one of the better parts of music in the 1970s in my opinion) once observed that if you “get a good job with more pay and you're okay”. On that basis, recruitment sector names such as Robert Walters (RWA) should be laughing but - as I have already observed a few times this year so far - the stock is down 30% year-to-date, and anyone who purchased the shares a couple of years ago is down about 50%. And I know the company is currently offering over a 5% dividend yield, but you would have made better total returns since October 2018 holding cash in the lowest remunerative NatWest (NWG) account wacked by inflation. I read in today’s third quarter update from Robert Walters that its 13% year-on-year fall in gross profit is a “resilient performance”.
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