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ManpowerGroup

MAN on NYSE. ManpowerGroup sells workforce solutions and staffing services to companies. Market value $2.5bn.

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Price checks use the past 12 months to June 2026. Quality checks use five annual reports, the latest for the year to December 2025.

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Cash yield
past 12 months to June 2026
2.9%low

For every $100 of what the whole company costs, it produced $2.86 of spare cash in the past 12 months. A savings account pays about $4.

Price to profit
past 12 months to June 2026
11.4×fair

You pay 11.4 years of operating profit for the business. The average large US company costs around 18.

Return on capital
five annual reports to December 2025
9.4%five-year median

Each dollar kept in the business earns 9 cents a year. Above 10 is good.

Quality score: 50 of 100. Price score: 73 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.

$51.87 a share, 106% above its 1-year low

Over the past year the price has ranged from $25.15 to $63.88.

Dividend: 2.8% a year

Paid every year for at least 5 years

Prices from Tuesday’s close (6 October).

Five years of cash, in billions

0.6
0.3
0.3
0.3
-0.2
0.1
2021202220232024202512 monthsto Jun '26

Spare cash swings from quarter to quarter here: $69 million in the past 12 months, a shortfall of $161 million in the year to December 2025.

Revenue
$20.7bn$19.8bn$18.9bn$17.9bn$18.0bn
Operating margin
2.8%2.9%1.4%1.7%0.8%
Debt to equity
0.440.400.450.450.81
Shares outstanding
0.05bn0.05bn0.05bn0.05bn0.05bn

Health checks

  • Free cash flow positive4 of 5 years
  • Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Nothing unusual
  • Financial strength (Piotroski)0 of 8 checks we could run
  • Profit backed by cash (accruals)Yes
  • Debt0.81× equity
  • Revenue growth, five yearsShrinking, 0.0% a year
  • Buying back its own sharesYes, 8% fewer since 2021

The quarter to June 2026

How the business did, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.

  • Sales: $4.9 billion last quarter, up 8% on a year ago.
  • Profit: $54 million, after a loss of $67 million a year ago.
  • It keeps 2 cents of each $1 of sales as operating profit, up from 1 cents a year earlier.
  • Spare cash over the past 12 months: $69 million. A year earlier it spent $70 million more than it brought in.
  • 2% more shares than a year ago. Each share owns a bit less of the company.
  • Debt is $863 million more than cash, down from $996 million a year ago.
  • Sales grew on a year ago in each of the last 4 quarters.
Sales by quarter
Sales by quarter
Quarter toAmount
September 2024$4.5bn
December 2024$4.4bn
March 2025$4.1bn
June 2025$4.5bn
September 2025$4.6bn
December 2025$4.7bn
March 2026$4.5bn
June 2026$4.9bn
Profit by quarter
Profit by quarter
Quarter toAmount
September 2024$23m
December 2024$23m
March 2025$6m
June 2025-$67m
September 2025$18m
December 2025$30m
March 2026$3m
June 2026$54m

From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.

Dates

Next results (estimated)
n/a
Last annual report (10-K)
23 February 2026
Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
6 November 2026

Who owns it

7 long-term investors we follow own it, up from 6 last quarter. 307 funds in all.

Jun '25
Dec '25
Jun '26
Largest holders overall

From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.

Big holders and activists

6 investors own more than 5%.

From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.

What insiders did

No insider bought or sold on the open market in the last 12 months.

From Form 4 filings: insiders must report trades in their own company's shares within two days.

Warning signs in its filings

Problems the company itself reported to the SEC, in its own words.

None of the warning signs we check for were found.

We look for five warning signs: doubt it can keep going, weak checks on its own accounts, a notice that its past accounts can't be relied on, a change of auditor, and one customer bringing in a big share of sales. We don't check lawsuits, investigations or debt yet.

We checked the auditor's report, internal controls, restatement notices, auditor changes and big customers in the 10-K filed 23 Feb 2026, plus the 10-Q filed 7 Aug 2026 and 4 later 8-Ks.

A 10-K is the yearly report every US company files with the SEC. An 8-K is a short notice of a big event.

What could go wrong

  • Sales have shrunk: 0.0% a year.

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The deep dive

Everything above is arithmetic on public filings. The deep dive reads the last ten years of annual reports, the proxy statements, and the earnings calls, then argues the case the way Buffett, Klarman, and Hohn would, and checks every claim against the source.

  • What the business is worth, as a range, and the margin of safety at today’s price
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  • The three things that would make this a mistake
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