HireQuest, Inc.
General ticker "HQI" information:
- Sector: Industrials
- Industry: Professional Services
- Capitalization: $157.7M (TTM average)
HireQuest, Inc. does not follow the US Stock Market performance with the rate: -10.0%.
Estimated limits based on current volatility of 3.7%: low 8.05$, high 8.66$
Factors to consider:
- Company pays dividends (quarterly): last record date 2025-09-01, amount 0.06$ (Y2.88%)
- 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 10.7% below estimated low
- Earnings for 9 months up through Q3 are close to 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 2024-12-31 to 2026-12-31
- 2024-12-31 to 2025-12-31 estimated range: [9.31$, 16.44$]
- 2025-12-31 to 2026-12-31 estimated range: [9.48$, 16.79$]
Financial Metrics affecting the HQI estimates:
- Positive: with PPE of 21.1 at the end of fiscal year the price was very low
- Positive: 7.86 < Operating profit margin, % of 12.63
- Positive: 1.87 < Return on assets ratio (scaled to [-100,100]) of 4.01
- Negative: Operating cash flow per share per price, % of 6.24 <= 6.82
- Positive: Shareholder equity ratio, % of 68.93 > 63.39
- Positive: Investing cash flow per share per price, % of 0.02 > -0.66
- Positive: Industry inventory ratio change (median), % of 0.03 <= 0.28
- Positive: Interest expense per share per price, % of 0.48 <= 0.79
- Negative: Industry operating cash flow per share per price (median), % of 5.41 <= 5.52
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Long-term HQI plot with estimates
Financial data
| YTD | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Revenue | $30.95MM | $37.88MM | $34.60MM |
| Operating Expenses | $14.91MM | $27.24MM | $30.23MM |
| Operating Income | $16.04MM | $10.64MM | $4.37MM |
| Non-Operating Income | $-2.17MM | $-2.86MM | $-0.22MM |
| Interest Expense | $0.37MM | $1.39MM | $0.92MM |
| Income(Loss) | $13.87MM | $7.78MM | $4.15MM |
| Taxes | $1.90MM | $1.34MM | $0.22MM |
| Other Income(Loss) | $0.48MM | $-0.30MM | $0.00MM |
| Profit(Loss)* | $12.94MM | $5.83MM | $3.67MM |
| Stockholders Equity | $58.25MM | $62.73MM | $64.80MM |
| Assets | $103.28MM | $103.83MM | $94.01MM |
| Operating Cash Flow | $16.88MM | $10.62MM | $12.04MM |
| Capital expenditure | $1.48MM | $0.10MM | $0.07MM |
| Investing Cash Flow | $-23.57MM | $-7.08MM | $0.04MM |
| Financing Cash Flow | $8.49MM | $-5.24MM | $-11.21MM |
| Earnings Per Share** | $0.95 | $0.42 | $0.27 |
* Profit(Loss) attributable to entity.
** EPS are Split Adjusted, recent splits may be reflected with a delay.