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HireQuest HQI

Staffing & Employment Services, Industrials
$16.18
−2.00%
Market cap
$224.9M
PE
28.4×
9y median 25.3×
Forward PE
n/m
not a meaningful number
Price to sales
7.5×
EV/EBIT
24.1×
Revenue, 12 months
$30.2M
−8% on a year ago
Net margin
27.1%
Free cash flow yield
4.2%

HireQuest trades at 28.4× trailing earnings, pricier than 65% of the last ten years. Revenue was $30.2M over the last twelve months, down 8% on a year earlier with a 27% net margin.

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Financials

Income statement for HQI, by quarter
Income statementQ3 FY23Q4 FY23Q1 FY24Q2 FY24Q3 FY24Q4 FY24Q1 FY25Q2 FY25Q3 FY25Q4 FY25Q1 FY26Q2 FY26
$9.3M+18%$9.8M+21%$8.4M−15%$8.7M−3%$9.4M+2%$8.1M−17%$7.5M−11%$7.6M−12%$8.5M−10%$7M−13%$6.5M−13%$8.1M+6%
Cost of revenuen/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a
Gross profitn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a
SG&A$6.4M+201%$6.6M+36%$5.6M−4%$5.3M−6%$5.4M−15%$5.1M−23%$5.3M−7%$5.9M+11%$5.1M−6%$4.5M−12%$4.3M−19%$4M−32%
$2.2M−58%$2.4M−8%$2.1M−37%$2.7M+1%−$2.7M$2.3M−7%$1.5M−29%$1M−61%$2.4M$1.3M−42%$1.5M−1%$3.3M+221%
Interest expense$302K+205%$231K+106%$243K−55%$253K−19%$268K−11%$160K−31%$144K−41%$71K−72%$63K−77%$30K−81%$8K−94%$30K−58%
Pre-tax income$2.1M−59%$281K−89%$2M−29%$2.6M+5%−$2.9M$2.4M+744%$1.6M−21%$1.1M−57%$2.5M$1.4M−40%$1.8M+14%$3.4M+204%
$518K−45%−$185K$340K−38%$557K+20%−$725K$49K$169K−50%$56K−90%$137K−$262K$264K+56%$684K+1121%
Net income$1.5M−65%$15K−99%$1.6M−38%$2M+2%−$2.2M$2.2M+14707%$1.4M−16%$1.1M−48%$2.3M$1.6M−28%$1.6M+15%$2.7M+154%
$0.11−65%$0.00$0.12−37%$0.15+0%−$0.16$0.16$0.10−17%$0.08−47%$0.16$0.11−31%$0.11+10%$0.19+138%
13.8M+1%13.9M+0%13.9M+1%13.9M+1%13.8M+0%14M+1%14M+1%14M+1%14M+1%14M+1%13.9M−1%13.8M−1%

Revenue: Q1 FY10 and Q1 FY11: 6 months less the 3 months printed beside them.

Cost of revenue: Q1 FY10 and Q1 FY11: 6 months less the 3 months printed beside them.

Gross profit: Q1 FY10 and Q1 FY11: 6 months less the 3 months printed beside them.

SG&A: Q1 FY10 and Q1 FY11: 6 months less the 3 months printed beside them.

Operating income: Q1 FY10 and Q1 FY11: 6 months less the 3 months printed beside them. Q3 FY20: not printed by the filing, worked out from its own lines.

Interest expense: Q1 FY10 and Q1 FY11: 6 months less the 3 months printed beside them.

Net income: Q1 FY10 and Q1 FY11: 6 months less the 3 months printed beside them.

EPS, diluted: 17 periods, Q1 FY10 to Q4 FY25: quarter's net income to common over its shares, to the cent.

Diluted shares: 3 periods, Q1 FY10 to Q1 FY11: share-days: the 6-month average less the second quarter's. Q4 FY10: a loss quarter: its basic count, share-days: the 12-month average less the 9-month, weighted by days. Q4 FY11 and Q4 FY18: the earlier year to date counted no dilution: the quarter's basic count plus the later year to date's dilution. 11 periods, Q4 FY12 to Q4 FY25: share-days: the 12-month average less the 9-month, weighted by days. Q4 FY17: a loss quarter: its basic count, share-days: the 12-month average over 364 days less the 9-month over 273, the two on one basis (x12).

From each company's 10-Q and 10-K filings, the newest version of each figure. Quarters are as filed (a fourth quarter is the year less its first nine months), fiscal years as the 10-K prints them, restated where a later 10-K restated them, and balance sheet lines as of the period's end. A quarter whose 10-Q isn't filed yet is from the company's results release. Growth is on the same period a year earlier. A dash is a period with no figure for the line: the filing doesn't print it, or it hasn't been read yet.

Peers

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

CompanyMarket capPEIts 10y median PEFwd PEP/SRevenue growthNet margin
HQIHireQuest$224.9M28.4×25.3×7.5×−8%27.1%
RCMTRCM Technologies$263.2M16.0×13.4×0.8×+11%5.1%
BBSIBarrett Business Services$805.1M24.4×17.1×0.6×+6%2.8%
KFRCKforce$1B27.6×17.4×0.8×−1%2.7%
EFOREverforth$1.8B22.5×19.8×0.5×−1%2.1%
AMNAMN Healthcare Services$1.9B17.9×18.6×0.5×+24%3.1%
MANManpowerGroup$2.2B21.5×15.3×0.1×+7%0.6%
Peer median$1.4B22.0×17.3×0.6×+6%2.7%

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