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ManpowerGroup Inc.

$MAN·$2.6B·Staffing & Employment Services·Industrials
$62.95+0.9%YTD+83.2%1Y+52.7%
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2026-08-22: 6 posts54+13%
Price updated 4h ago·X counts updated 9d ago
MAMAN
$MANManpowerGroup Inc.
$62.95+0.90%54 posts+13%
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Top X posts

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $MAN, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Proven numbersAcceleratingAI verdict · as of 2026-08-26

The move is getting stronger, with heavier trading behind it.

ManpowerGroup is up 83% YTD at fresh 52-week highs — staffing services is quietly one of the top-performing groups.

ManpowerGroup Inc. is the global staffing and workforce-solutions company whose stock has quietly become the top-performer in the industrials/staffing group. The tape is at fresh 52-week highs on continued print quality and institutional flow.

  • The fundamentals are inflecting off a low base: last two prints delivered EPS beats of 4% and 2%, revenue $4.86B with 16% gross margin (typical low-margin staffing) and 0.8% operating margin — the FY27 sell-side EPS trajectory implies meaningful re-rating on operating-leverage recovery; the trailing -148x PE is transitional and compresses hard.
  • The tape is confirming: at 98% of the 52-week range, 31% above the 50-day and 83% above the 200-day on 0.57x normal volume with beta 0.66 — that's a stock in a genuine breakout with light volume, and California State Teachers Retirement + Assenagon Asset Management adding meaningful positions supports the institutional-flow signal.
  • The staffing-services rotation is real: MAN grouped with THRM, MANH, TNET, PAYX as an end-of-day system-longs cohort — that's the shape of a category-wide rotation into staffing/HR services, which historically leads early-cycle economic recovery bets.

The path if this works is the Oct 15 Q3 print delivering another clean beat plus concrete European/US billings acceleration, taking the tape past $75. What breaks it is a fresh employment-slowdown data point or a soft billings guide — MAN is levered to end-cycle labor demand, and any softening cuts the multiple.

Agrees with X sentimentThe X bulls on the equity have the setup right — MAN in end-of-day system-longs alongside THRM/MANH/TNET/PAYX, staffing rising as a top group, 'where does this stock think it is going' framing — and mechanics support the accelerating tape; the parallel MAN memecoin chatter is unrelated noise.

What to watch: Oct 15 Q3 print (sell-side EPS $1.01) — a clean beat plus concrete European/US billings acceleration extends the tape past $75; a fresh employment-slowdown data point or a soft billings guide breaks the accelerating tape back toward $48.

On the calendar: 2026-10-15 — Q3 earnings

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X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Bullish sentiment6 posts analyzed · as of 2026-08-17

MAN chatter is bullish across the equity and crypto entities. ManpowerGroup MAN appears among end-of-day system longs (with THRM, MANH, TNET, PAYX) as staffing rises as a top group, and one poster asks 'where does this stock think it is going'. A separate MAN memecoin ('The Greatest Act of Rebellion Today is Being A True Gentleman') is teased for an upcoming CoinMarketCap listing on BNB/pumpfun-adjacent chains. The sample tone is unbroken.

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Global workforce solutions company placing temporary, contract, and permanent workers across 75+ countries under Manpower and Experis brands.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Staffing & Employment Services sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $MAN.

Staffing & Employment Services · Industrials

Temp staffing volumes are a leading indicator of labor market conditions; the current softening in discretionary hiring is compressing bill rates. AI automation is a structural headwind for commodity white-collar staffing segments long-term.

What this means for $MAN

Partial — software subscription economics provide some insulation from macro cycles; AI integration is the growth catalyst for this segment; ManpowerGroup Inc.

Industry benchmark

6-name peer basket
+21.0%YTD
+25.0%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
-147.6How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
3.3%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
0.8%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
2.4%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
0.1Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
5.1%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
16.5%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
0.7Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q2 2026Jul 16, 2026$0.99$0.95+4.1%
Q1 2026Apr 16, 2026$0.51$0.50+2.0%
Q4 2025Jan 29, 2026$0.92$0.83+10.8%
Q3 2025Oct 16, 2025$0.83$0.82+1.2%
Next earningsThu, Oct 15·consensus EPS $1.01

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q2 FY26$4.9B+7.5%16.1%2.3%$1.15$-18.6M
Q1 FY26$4.5B+10.3%16.0%0.6%$0.05$-135.3M
Q4 FY25$4.7B+7.1%16.3%1.7%$0.65$168.0M
Q3 FY25$4.6B+2.3%16.8%1.4%$0.39$44.7M

Forward consensus

3-year forecast · up to 7 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$19.2B$18.6B – $19.6B$3.63$3.61 – $3.667
FY27$19.9B$19.3B – $20.5B$4.88$4.64 – $5.497
FY28$20.7B$20.0B – $20.9B$6.55$5.73 – $7.105

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.5×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.96%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.+27.0%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.+80.7%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

β0.665-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

8-KOfficer or director changeAug 118-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change
AI summary

ManpowerGroup (MAN) appointed John B. Gibson, Jr. to its Board of Directors on August 7, 2026, with service beginning September 1, 2026, expanding the Board from ten to eleven directors. Gibson, President and CEO of Paychex, Inc., was also appointed to the People, Culture, and Compensation Committee.

8-KOfficer or director changeMay 88-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change · Item 5.03: Charter amendment · Item 5.07: Shareholder vote · Item 8.01: Other event
+ 23 other (7 13Gs · 7 S-8 POSs · 2 10-Qs · 2 earnings 8-Ks) in window

Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

MAN Stock Surges 122% in 6 Months: Here's What You Should Knowzacks.com·6d agoManpowerGroup (NYSE:MAN) Reaches New 52-Week High – Still a Buy?defenseworld.net·7d agoCalifornia State Teachers Retirement System Acquires 17,099 Shares of ManpowerGroup Inc. $MANdefenseworld.net·19d agoAssenagon Asset Management S.A. Acquires Shares of 128,000 ManpowerGroup Inc. $MANdefenseworld.net·19d agoAs Skills Shortages and AI Reshape Hiring, Talent Solutions RPO Named a Global RPO Leader for Helping Organizations Navigate a Changing Workforceprnewswire.com·20d ago

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