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Largest Recruitment & Staffing Public Companies in Australia
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
McMillan Shakespeare, Freelancer and Peoplein.
 | McMillan Shakespeare is a provider of salary packaging, novated leasing, disability plan management and support co-ordination, and fleet management services. It actively works to cross-sell its products to clients, for example, selling its salary packaging services to its fleet management customers in Australia and New Zealand. McMillan dominates Australia’s salary packaging market together with Smartgroup (also covered by Morningstar), and is also a large provider of novated leasing services by volumes—together with Smartgroup and SG Fleet. The group has three operating segments: group remuneration services, asset management services, and plan and support services. Most of the group’s revenue is generated from the group remuneration services segment. | $12 | +8% | $833M | $1B | 3.8x | 7.7x | ||
| Freelancer Ltd is engaged in freelancing, outsourcing services, and crowdsourcing marketplace. It offers software development, writing, data entry, and design services. The company is organized into two operating segments: Online marketplace which also generates key revenue, and Online payment services. The company operates predominantly in Australia, where majority of the online revenues and expenses are incurred. | $0 | -25% | $47M | $35M | 0.9x | 5.7x | ||
| Peoplein Ltd is a workforce management company. It delivers solutions to the workforce challenges faced by businesses in Australia. It provides recruiting, on-boarding, contracting, rostering, timesheet management, payroll, and workplace health and safety management. It also operates in disability care, childcare, infrastructure, mining, agriculture, and hospitality. It also operates under Health and Community Care, Information Technology and General Staffing, and Specialist Services. The Group segments the business into three verticals, Industrial and Specialist Services, Professional Services and Health and Community. The Group generates the majority of its revenue from Industrial and Specialist Services. | $0 | -9% | $45M | $69M | 0.1x | 3.2x | ||
| Median | $0 | -9% | $47M | $69M | 0.9x | 5.7x |
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