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Company snapshot — ManpowerGroup Inc

MAN in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
ManpowerGroup provides staffing and workforce services through its Manpower, Experis and Talent Solutions brands, placing permanent, temporary and contract workers across administrative, industrial and technology roles. It also offers workforce consulting, upskilling and outsourcing of large-scale recruiting programmes, alongside a managed-service-provider offering called TAPFIN. It operates across the Americas, southern and northern Europe, and Asia Pacific and the Middle East, and is based in Milwaukee.
Where it sits in the stack
ManpowerGroup carries no seat in our Rubin AI build-out index; it sits instead in the Industrials sector of our universe, in the staffing-and-employment-services cohort. Its business tracks broad hiring cycles across industries rather than any single technology layer.
Who it is priced against
Its Closelook peer group groups it with other US industrials on sector and geography rather than business model, including Comfort Systems USA, EMCOR Group, AGCO, Expeditors International, Tetra Tech, Jacobs Solutions, ITT and MSC Industrial Direct; the diary notes this cohort ranks on trend state, not on a score, since ManpowerGroup does not carry one. The market's usual staffing comparison is Randstad.
Why Closelook tracks it
ManpowerGroup sits in the Russell 1000 but has no Rubin or Halo seat and carries no Closelook score, so it does not appear in the scored editions; the diary has not quoted it in the dailies.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether its position relative to its own moving averages holds or fades, since staffing demand often turns before broader hiring data confirms a shift.

ManpowerGroup Inc (MAN) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-20. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for MAN, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Industrials · United States · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Industrials · United States

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against MAN on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 2.50%, semi-annual · last 0.72 USD on 2026-06-01

Dividends and capital return

What MAN pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 1.44 USD per share · a 2.50% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 2 distributions, paid twice a year 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year −36.3% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 2.26 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.72 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-06-01
  • By calendar year 2023: 1.47 USD (partial) · 2024: 3.08 USD · 2025: 1.44 USD · 2026: 0.72 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-11-30

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is ManpowerGroup Inc (MAN)?

ManpowerGroup Inc trades as MAN on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is MAN in a Closelook index?

Not currently — ManpowerGroup Inc is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

Where does MAN trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +3.6% vs the 50-day and +59% vs the 200-day average, 9.8% below the 52-week high and +134.5% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 60 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does ManpowerGroup Inc do?

ManpowerGroup provides staffing and workforce services through its Manpower, Experis and Talent Solutions brands, placing permanent, temporary and contract workers across administrative, industrial and technology roles. It also offers workforce consulting, upskilling and outsourcing of large-scale recruiting programmes, alongside a managed-service-provider offering called TAPFIN. It operates across the Americas, southern and northern Europe, and Asia Pacific and the Middle East, and is based in Milwaukee. Its Closelook peer group groups it with other US industrials on sector and geography rather than business model, including Comfort Systems USA, EMCOR Group, AGCO, Expeditors International, Tetra Tech, Jacobs Solutions, ITT and MSC Industrial Direct; the diary notes this cohort ranks on trend state, not on a score, since ManpowerGroup does not carry one. The market's usual staffing comparison is Randstad.

Where does ManpowerGroup Inc sit in the AI build-out?

ManpowerGroup carries no seat in our Rubin AI build-out index; it sits instead in the Industrials sector of our universe, in the staffing-and-employment-services cohort. Its business tracks broad hiring cycles across industries rather than any single technology layer. ManpowerGroup sits in the Russell 1000 but has no Rubin or Halo seat and carries no Closelook score, so it does not appear in the scored editions; the diary has not quoted it in the dailies.

Does ManpowerGroup Inc pay a dividend?

ManpowerGroup Inc has paid 1.44 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid twice a year, a trailing yield of 2.50% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.72 USD on 2026-06-01. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for MAN, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Staffing & Employment Services, then Industrials. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.