ManpowerGroup Inc.
boothcheck covers ManpowerGroup Inc. (MAN) but does not put one priced-in number on it: here the defensible answer is the evidence rather than a point estimate. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating. Narrative composed June 27, 2026.
Trailing earnings tell you almost nothing useful here. ManpowerGroup is at the bottom of the staffing cycle, with an operating margin of just 0.8% against a 2.9% mid-cycle level, so the standard P/E lens makes a normal business look broken. The price is supported by asset value, normalized earnings power, and peer multiples. At $33.62 it trades below the value those frames imply, and the company is buying back stock at roughly 3.5% of the share count a year while paying a 4.9% dividend. The ri
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288 institutional managers reported holding MAN in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 54 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, AQR Capital, among others. On the short side, 5.8M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 12% of shares outstanding (7 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
MAN has cut its share count 14.3% over the past five years, spending $690.80M on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (16 and counting); the current rate is $1.44 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $283.70M in dividends and $281.00M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at MAN over the trailing three years: 2024: 1 buy totaling $498k. 13 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
MAN's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-05 | -2.2% | -5.2% |
| 2023-11-04 | -1.5% | +4.6% |
| 2024-02-17 | -0.1% | +6.3% |
| 2024-05-04 | -0.9% | -8.9% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
MAN's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-16 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-05-08 (items 5.02, 5.03, 5.07, 8.01, 9.01); 2026-04-16 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-02-19 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-01-29 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: June 27, 2026
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