Loading…
HQI
HireQuest, Inc.
NASDAQ· Industrials· Staffing & Employment Services· CUSIP 433535101
$16.38+2.18%Price as of Aug 29, 18:39 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
Key metrics
- Market cap
- $227.53M
- P/E
- 26.9x
- Forward P/E
- 19.4x
- P/B
- 3.3x
- Dividend yield
- 1.47%
- Payout
- 39.34%
- EPS
- $0.61
- ROE
- 12.49%
- Profit margin
- 27.06%
- Revenue growth
- +6.00%
- Beta
- 1.12
- 52-week high
- $19.01
- 52-week low
- $7.38
History
How the company evolved, year by year. Revenue and debt come from the annual reports — for most companies, the 10-K filings with the SEC since 2009; dividends from the payments themselves.
The bars are a balance on the closing date; the lines are what happened during the year. Revenue above equity is ordinary, not an anomaly — it means the company turns its capital over more than once a year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
Price over time
▲ +11.3% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,127.72▲ +12.8%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 16 closed years. Each multiple uses that year’s closing price and that year’s reported numbers — not today’s. The range is set by the annual reports on record.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $10.51 | $14.16 | $15.35 | $15.81 | $20.16 | $10.22 | $7.09 | $4.00 | $5.90 | $4.32 | $6.00 | $9.00 | $5.40 | $3.24 | $3.36 | $4.68 | |
| P/E | 23.3x |
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to what the company reported. None of them predicts a price — each answers what the stock would be worth if its assumption held. The assumption is printed next to every number, because it is the assumption that produces the result.
Earnings
$8.25
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value — the two ceilings Graham proposed. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings
$2.66
Earnings growing 2.9% a year plus a 1.5% dividend — Lynch adds the yield to the growth rate, so a payer is not priced like a company that returns nothing. Growth capped at 25%.
Earnings
$15.15
Median P/E of 24.8 among peers in the sector.
Earnings
$14.19
Median P/E of 23.3 across the years on record for this company itself. Answers whether it is cheap against its own past, which a whole sector trading low cannot flatter.
Cash flow
$12.33
Cash flow growing 2.9% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Operating
$8.62
Sector median of 12.6x operating profit, less net debt. Sees the business before its financing, so debt does not distort the comparison. Banks have no EBITDA — interest is their revenue, not a cost.
Others in the same sector
Companies of similar size in Industrials, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAGHMagnitude International Ltd | $6.76 | — | 51.2x | — | -44.15% | $225.45M |
| SIDUSidus Space Inc. | $2.21 | — | 1.2x | — | -27.00% | $223.71M |
| BNCCEA Industries Inc. | $5.63 | 0.0x | 0.8x | — | 70.89% | $231.81M |
| FORRForrester Research Inc | $12.38 |
About the company
HireQuest, Inc. provides staffing solutions in the United States. The company offers direct-dispatch, executive search, commercial staffing, unskilled and semi-skilled industrial, construction personnel, skilled and semi-skilled industrial personnel, clerical and administrative personnel, permanent placement, commercial and non-CDL drivers, skilled personnel, and executive placement and consultant services. It offers its services under the HireQuest Direct, HireQuest, Snelling, DriverQuest, HireQuest Health, Northbound Executive Search, and MRI trade names. The company serves construction, recycling, warehousing, logistics, auctioneering, manufacturing, hospitality, landscaping, and retail industries, as well as dental practices. HireQuest, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Goose Creek, South Carolina.
- 88
- Goose Creek, United States
Company description provided by Yahoo Finance.