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NASDAQ NMS - GLOBAL MARKET · Professional Services · CIK 0001140102
$16.51
+1.16% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 22, 2026
$231.1M market value
From HireQuest, Inc.'s FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 31, 2026 · read the filing
HireQuest provides business and staffing services. It took in $30.6M last year, which makes it a small company. Of every dollar it sells, about 21 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by profitability and debt, while growth remain weak.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
Generally healthy, with a few things to watch.
From HireQuest, Inc.'s FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Operating income
$4.4M → $6.3M
Profit
$3.7M → $6.3M
Profit margin
10.6% → 20.7%
Earnings per share
$0.26 → $0.45
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Mar 31, 2026
Improved: +43.8%
$4.4M to $6.3MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +72.4%
$3.7M to $6.3MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
HQI rose 1.16% on the latest quote. The average Industrials company tracked here moved +0.37%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 0.8 points above its sector and 2.2 points above the market.
No filing from HQI and no news item about it appeared in the last 3 days.
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Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 6 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 6 analysts publishing on this company, 2 say strong buy, 3 say buy and 1 say hold. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 21 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $6.3M last year.
No. Sales shrank 11.4% last year.
It does not appear so. For every $1 it owes, it owns $4.43 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Income
This company pays no dividend. It keeps its profits and reinvests them in the business instead, so any return would have to come from the share price.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $6.3M and generated $12.0M of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Mar 31, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Mar 27, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Mar 21, 2024Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Mar 21, 2023Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Mar 21, 2023Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $30.6M | $34.6M | $37.9M | $31.0M | $22.5M | −11.4% |
| Cost of revenue | — | — | — | — | $170.5K | — |
| Gross profit | — | — | — | — | $22.6M | — |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | — | — | — | — | 100.3% | — |
| Selling, general and administrative | $20.7M | $21.4M | $24.4M | $12.9M | $13.3M | −3.4% |
| Operating income | $6.3M | $4.4M | $10.6M | $16.0M | $7.7M | +43.8% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 20.5% | 12.6% | 28.1% | 51.8% | 34.0% | +7.9 pts |
| Interest expense | $307.0K | $923.0K | $1.4M | $368.0K | $157.0K | −66.7% |
| Income before tax | $6.7M | $4.1M | $7.8M | $13.9M | $12.5M | +61.8% |
| Net income | $6.3M | $3.7M | $6.1M | $12.5M | $11.8M | +72.4% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 20.7% | 10.6% | 16.2% | 40.2% | 52.6% | +10.0 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $0.4521 | $0.2623 | $0.4414 | $0.9055 | $0.8689 | +72.4% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Was granted or awarded shares — 811 shares
Holds 77,770 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 4,000 shares
Holds 81,770 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 1,036 shares
Holds 102,924 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue +6.0% · Operating margin +27.6 pts · Operating income +220.5% — against Q2 FY2025
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Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from HQI's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Mar 31, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 7 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 7.3 | 6/7 | 10-K, filed Mar 31, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 7.3 | 6/7 | 10-K, filed Mar 27, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 10.0 | 6/7 | 10-K, filed Mar 21, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 10.0 | 6/7 | 10-K, filed Mar 21, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 10.0 | 7/8 | 10-K, filed Mar 21, 2023 |
| FY2020 | 7.3 | 6/7 | 10-K, filed Mar 25, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
6 of 7 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. 2 could not be evaluated and are excluded from the total rather than counted as failures.
7.69
In the safe zone
For this model, above 2.6 is safe and below 1.1 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Improved: +10.1 pts
10.6% to 20.7%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +72.4%
$0.26 to $0.45Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +7.9 pts
12.6% to 20.5%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: -11.4%
$34.6M to $30.6MNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 11, 2026 — read it.
Improved: +220.5%
$1.0M to $3.3MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +154.0%
$1.1M to $2.7MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +27.6 pts
13.7% to 41.3%Critical
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +19.4 pts
13.9% to 33.2%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +156.8%
$0.08 to $0.20Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +6.0%
$7.6M to $8.1MNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: -1.1%
13.9M to 13.8MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Aug 11, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: +126.5%
$1.5M to $3.3MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +72.6%
$1.6M to $2.7MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +18.6 pts
22.6% to 41.3%Critical
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +9.3 pts
23.9% to 33.2%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +73.7%
$0.11 to $0.20Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +24.2%
$6.5M to $8.1MSignificant
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
1 other measure barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 1.5% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 30.3x — a high multiple relative to the current trailing profit.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Was granted or awarded shares — 4,000 shares
Holds 106,924 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 649 shares
Holds 2,639,833 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 4,000 shares
Holds 2,643,833 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 4,000 shares
Holds 81,037 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 802 shares
Holds 121,395 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 4,000 shares
Holds 125,395 shares after this filing.
Gifted shares — 300,000 shares
Holds 2,677,411 shares after this filing.
Gifted shares — 100,000 shares
Holds 2,577,411 shares after this filing.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Published results
Held a shareholder vote
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Revenue -12.7% · Operating margin +2.8 pts · Profit margin +5.7 pts — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Revenue -11.4% · Operating margin +7.9 pts · Operating income +43.8% — against FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Revenue -9.8% · Operating margin +57.4 pts · Operating income turned positive — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2025
Revenue -12.0% · Operating margin −17.4 pts · Operating income -61.3% — against Q2 FY2024
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