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HireQuest price to free cash flow HQI

Market value divided by free cash flow over the last twelve months, since 2012.

Today, Oct 23, 2026
23.8×
10-year median
15.2×
Against its 10-year history
80th
percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range
5.3× to 489×
Peer median
21.8×

HireQuest's price to free cash flow is 23.8× as of Oct 23, 2026.

That is above its ten-year median of 15.2×, higher than on 80% of days in the last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 5.3× in Mar 2018 to 489× in Apr 2020.

The median for 6 staffing and Employment Services stocks of a similar size is 21.8×.

Price to free cash flow over time

The dashed line is the 10-year median and the shaded band the middle half of its days.

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Year by year

YearEnd of yearLowHigh
2026 so far23.8×9.9×29.5×
202510.5×6.8×17.4×
202415.7×15.7×27.5×
202329.4×17.0×35.8×
202216.8×12.4×21.5×
202115.6×14.7×28.9×
2020489×456×489×
2019476×6.1×476×
20185.8×5.3×10.1×
20175.7×5.6×10.0×
20168.3×4.5×31.4×
20155.7×5.3×8.7×
20147.9×4.8×8.8×
2013n/m a value too high to mean anything
2012283×283×389×

Against its peers

Companies in Staffing & Employment Services nearest HireQuest's size, closest first, today.

CompanyPrice to free cash flow
HQIHireQuest23.8×
RCMTRCM Technologies11.5×
BBSIBarrett Business Services51.9×
KFRCKforce46.4×
EFOREverforth8.1×
AMNAMN Healthcare Services4.2×
MANManpowerGroup32.1×
Peer median21.8×

What the price to free cash flow tells you

Market value divided by free cash flow: the cash left after running the business and paying for equipment. Cash is harder to manage than accounting earnings, so many investors trust this more than PE.

Lumpy: a big year of building factories drops cash flow and inflates the ratio without the business getting worse.

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Valuation data, not investment advice. Prices as of . Reported figures come from the company's filings with the SEC.