HireQuest, Inc.
General ticker "HQI" information:
- Sector: Industrials
- Industry: Staffing & Employment Services
- Capitalization: $138.2M (TTM average)
HireQuest, Inc. follows the US Stock Market performance with the rate: 38.2%.
Estimated limits based on current volatility of 2.8%: low 12.49$, high 13.22$
Factors to consider:
- Company pays dividends (quarterly): last record date 2026-03-02, amount 0.06$ (Y1.90%)
- Total employees count: 139 (+12.1%) as of 2023
- Top business risk factors: Acquisition/divestiture risks, Cybersecurity threats, Labor/talent shortage/retention, Regulatory and compliance, IT system failures
- Current price 10.9% above estimated high
- Earnings for 3 months up through Q1 exceed our estimates
Stock Forecast*
* forecast is subjective and experimental, should not be used for any investment decisions
Long term estimates were made for the period from 2025-12-31 to 2027-12-31
- 2025-12-31 to 2026-12-31 estimated range: [7.79$, 11.38$]
- 2026-12-31 to 2027-12-31 estimated range: [7.56$, 11.11$]
Financial Metrics affecting the HQI estimates:
- Positive: with PPE of 14.0 at the end of fiscal year the price was low
- Positive: Operating profit margin, % of 20.50 > 18.39
- Positive: 6.59 < Operating cash flow per share per price, % of 9.03
- Positive: Return on assets ratio (scaled to [-100,100]) of 6.97 > 6.06
- Positive: Industry inventory ratio change (median), % of 0 <= 0
- Positive: -0.03 < Industry operating cash flow per share per price (median), % of 2.50
- Negative: -0.75 < Inventory ratio change, % of 0
- Positive: Investing cash flow per share per price, % of 0.22 > -0.60
- Negative: 0.01 < Interest expense per share per price, % of 0.23
Short-term HQI quotes
Long-term HQI plot with estimates
Financial data
| YTD | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Revenue | $37.88MM | $34.60MM | $30.64MM |
| Operating Expenses | $27.24MM | $30.23MM | $24.36MM |
| Operating Income | $10.64MM | $4.37MM | $6.28MM |
| Non-Operating Income | $-2.86MM | $-0.22MM | $0.43MM |
| Interest Expense | $1.39MM | $0.92MM | $0.31MM |
| Income(Loss) | $7.78MM | $4.15MM | $6.71MM |
| Taxes | $1.34MM | $0.22MM | $0.10MM |
| Other Income(Loss) | $-0.30MM | $-0.25MM | $-0.28MM |
| Net Income(Loss)* | $5.83MM | $3.42MM | $6.33MM |
| Stockholders Equity | $62.73MM | $64.80MM | $68.32MM |
| Assets | $103.83MM | $94.01MM | $88.23MM |
| Operating Cash Flow | $10.62MM | $12.04MM | $12.05MM |
| Capital expenditure | $0.10MM | $0.07MM | $0.06MM |
| Investing Cash Flow | $-7.08MM | $0.04MM | $0.30MM |
| Financing Cash Flow | $-5.24MM | $-11.21MM | $-10.67MM |
| Earnings Per Share** | $0.42 | $0.25 | $0.45 |
* Profit(Loss) attributable to entity.
** EPS are Split Adjusted, recent splits may be reflected with a delay.