Industrials / Staffing & Employment ServicesUpdated 2026-05-10 22:07 UTC

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Market cap

167.5M

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Market data

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E22.1

P25 14.6P50 20.6P75 30.4

Trailing P/E25.4

P25 17.1P50 27.2P75 47.6

ROE9.9

P25 -16.4P50 5.9P75 16.4

ROIC10.3

P25 -10.3P50 5.1P75 12.2

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Indicator catalog

All HQI market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

Available fields

253

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Currency

USD

Showing 253 of 253 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0001140102
Company name	HireQuest, Inc.
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	433535101
Employees	88
Employees Change	-4%
Employees Change Percent	-4.35
Enterprise value	$163.6M
Exchange	NASDAQ
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Staffing & Employment Services
Isin	US4335351015
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$167.5M
Market cap category	Micro-Cap
Price	$12.05
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	348,181.82x
Sector	Industrials
Sic	7363
Symbol	HQI
Website	https://hirequest.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	3.78%
EV Earnings	25.85x
EV Sales Forward	5.7x
EV/EBIT	23.52x
EV/EBITDA	16.42x
EV/FCF	13.65x
EV/Sales	5.34x
FCF yield	7.16%
Forward P/E	22.11x
P/B ratio	2.45x
P/E ratio	25.4x
P/S ratio	5.47x
PE Ratio3 Y	43.16x
PE Ratio5 Y	35x
PS Forward	5.83x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	22.7%
EBITDA Margin	32.52%
FCF margin	39.13%
Gross margin	100%
Gross Profit	$30.6M
Gross Profit Growth	-11.44%
Gross Profit Growth Q	-13%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	-0.34%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	17.28%
Net Income	$6.3M
Net Income Growth	72.39%
Net Income Growth Q	-27.83%
Net Income Growth Years	1%
Net Income Growth3 Y	-20.2%
Net Income Growth5 Y	3.38%
Pretax Margin	21.9%
Profit Margin	20.66%
Profit Per Employee	$71,932
Profitable Years	6
ROA	4.77
Roa5y	7.29
ROCE	9.54
ROE	9.93
Roe5y	15.61
ROIC	10.28
Roic5y	15.62

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr1y	22.34%
Cagr3y	-14.79%
Cagr5y	-7.77%
Div CAGR3	0%
EPS Growth	71.89
EPS Growth Q	-28.74
EPS Growth Years	1
EPS Growth3 Y	-20.78
EPS Growth5 Y	2.91
FCF Growth	0.16%
FCF Growth Q	-23.31%
FCF Growth3 Y	-10.6%
FCF Growth5 Y	4.86%
OCF Growth	0.06%
OCF Growth Q	-23.76%
OCF Growth3 Y	-10.63%
OCF Growth5 Y	2.06%
Revenue Growth	-11.44x
Revenue Growth Q	-13x
Revenue Growth Years	0x
Revenue Growth3 Y	-0.34x
Revenue Growth5 Y	17.28x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.34
Assets	$88.2M
Cash	$3.9M
Current Assets	$48.3M
Current Liabilities	$15.3M
Equity	$68.3M
Interest Coverage	22.66
Liabilities	$19.9M
Long Term Assets	$39.9M
Long Term Liabilities	$4.6M
Net Cash	$3.9M
Net Cash By Market Cap	$2.32
Net Debt EBITDA	$-0.39
Net Debt Equity	$-0.06
Net Debt FCF	$-0.32
Tangible Book Value	$42.5M
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$3.03
WACC	10.22

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	3.15
Net Working Capital	$29.1M
Quick ratio	2.81
Working Capital	$33M
Working Capital Turnover	$1.05

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	-0.42%
Dividend Growth	0%
Dividend Growth Years	0%
Dividend per share	$0.24
Dividend Years	7
Dividend Yield	2.01%
Ex Div Date	2026-03-02
Last Dividend	$0.06
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	53.33%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
1Y total return	22.32%
200-day SMA	9.97
3Y total return	-38.14%
50-day SMA	10.75
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50over200
5Y total return	-33.26%
All Time High	29.38
All Time High Change	-59%
All Time High Date	2023-06-21
All Time Low	5
All Time Low Change	140.9%
All Time Low Date	2020-03-27
ATR	0.65
Beta	1.08
Beta1y	0.61
Beta2y	0.5
Ch YTD	14.61
High	12.39
High52	12.48
High52 Date	2026-02-26
High52ch	-3.49%
Low	12.05
Low52	7.38
Low52 Date	2025-12-17
Low52ch	63.21%
Ma50ch	12%
Price vs 200-day SMA	20.86%
RSI	62.15
RSI Monthly	49.67
RSI Weekly	63.42
Sharpe ratio	0.55x
Sortino ratio	1.01
Total Return	1.59%
Tr YTD	15.2
Tr1m	16.94%
Tr1w	8.03%
Tr3m	10.62%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	1
Analyst Ratings	Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$0.11
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	10
Earnings Revenue Estimate	6,654,000x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	-10.95x
Operating Income	$7M
Operating Income Growth	-33.13
Operating Income Growth Q	-22.51
Operating Income Growth3 Y	-24.3
Operating Income Growth5 Y	1.12
Operating margin	22.7
Price target	$13
Price Target Change	$7.93

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	5,642,667%
Float Percent	40.22%
Net Borrowing	-6,917,000
Shares Insiders	41.82%
Shares Institutions	12.53%
Shares Out	14,030,843
Shares Qo Q	0.32%
Shares Yo Y	0.42%
Short Float	4.64%
Short Ratio	13.01
Short Shares	1.87

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$11.1M
Average Volume	21,591.75x
Bv Per Share	4.87
CAPEX	$-56,000
Ch1m	16.94
Ch1w	8.03
Ch1y	19.38
Ch3m	10.05
Ch3y	-41.47
Ch5y	-38.55
Ch6m	24.56
Change	-1.43%
Change From Open	-1.19
Close	12.22
Days Gap	-0.25
Depreciation Amortization	3,008,000
Dollar Volume	153,634
Earnings Date	2026-05-12
Earnings Time	amc
EBIT	$7M
EBITDA	$10M
EPS	$0.45
F Score	5
FCF	$12M
FCF EV Yield	7.33x
FCF Per Share	$0.85
Financing CF	-10,666,000
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	2,002
Goodwill	1,633,000
Graham Number	7.02187
Graham Upside	-41.19
Income Tax	$100,000
Investing CF	296,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-03-30
Last Report Date	2025-12-31
Last Split Type	Never
Last10k Filing Date	2026-03-31
Lynch Fair Value	$2.25
Lynch Upside	-81.15
Ma150	10.03
Ma150ch	20.1%
Ma20	11.02
Ma20ch	9.28%
Net CF	1,676,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-05-12
Open	12.19
Optionable	No
P FCF Ratio	13.97
P OCF Ratio	13.91
Payment Date	2026-03-16
Position In Range	-1.47
Post Close	12.05
Postmarket Change Percent	-0.87
Postmarket Price	$11.94
Ppne	4,050,000
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$16.81
Ptbv Ratio	3.95
Relative Volume	0.59x
Revenue	30,640,000x
SBC By Revenue	3.05x
Share Based Comp	936,000
Tax By Revenue	0.33x
Tax Rate	1.49%
Tr6m	26.08%
Us State	South Carolina
Volume	12,755
Z Score	6.02

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Next action

Research pending

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Income

HQI dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+2.0%

$0.24 annual per share

Payout ratio

+53.3%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

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0 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+1.6%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-03-02

Performance

HQI stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns HQI?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+12.5%

Float: +40.2% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+41.8%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

HQI momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

62.1

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

+20.9%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

1.08

Moves roughly with the market

Sharpe ratio

0.55

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

HQI vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
BA	The Boeing Company	187.1B	95.1x	2.0x	-13.6%	+10.3%	+27.9%	Sell
CAT	Caterpillar Inc.	413.4B	44.7x	5.8x	16.5%	+10.5%	+183.2%	Sell
DE	Deere & Company	155.3B	32.4x	3.3x	6.0%	+4.8%	+23.3%	Sell

Questions

About HQI

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