HireQuest, Inc. (NASDAQ:HQI)
Insiders here have filed 9 Form 4s in the last 90 days, but all of them are share awards, grants or other non-market transactions. Those are compensation, not a decision to buy, so they are not scored.
Keeps a healthy share of every dollar it sells.
- Revenue
- $30.2M
- Net income
- $8.2M
- Net margin
- 27.1%
Little or no net debt.
- Total debt
- $0
- Cash
- $1.6M
- Net debt / EBITDA
- -0.13x
Comfortably covers what is due within a year.
- Current assets
- $55.3M
- Current liabilities
- $20.2M
- Current ratio
- 2.74
The business funds itself from operations.
- Operating cash flow
- $9.5M
- Free cash flow
- $9.5M
- FCF margin
- 31.4%
Not funding itself by issuing shares.
- Shares outstanding
- 13.8M
- Share growth (1y)
- -1.1%
Five pillars — profitability, leverage, liquidity, cash generation, dilution & runway — each scored 0–20 from the company’s own income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow statement, then scaled to 100. A pillar the statements cannot answer is left out rather than guessed; fewer than three and no score is shown.
HQI Income Statement
| Fiscal Period | Q2 2026 | Q1 2026 | Q4 2025 | Q3 2025 | Q2 2025 | Q1 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period Ending | Jun 30, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | Dec 31, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 |
| Revenue | 8.10 M | 6.52 M | 7.03 M | 8.50 M | 7.64 M | 7.47 M |
| Revenue Growth (YoY) | 6.04 % | -12.70 % | -13.00 % | -9.76 % | -12.00 % | -11.25 % |
| Cost of Revenue | 762.00 K | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Gross Profit | 7.34 M | 6.52 M | 7.03 M | 8.50 M | 7.64 M | 7.47 M |
| SG&A Expense | 3.99 M | 4.27 M | 4.49 M | 5.07 M | 5.86 M | 5.25 M |
| R&D Expense | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Operating Expenses | 3.99 M | 5.05 M | 5.28 M | 6.05 M | 6.59 M | 5.99 M |
| Operating Income | 3.34 M | 1.48 M | 1.76 M | 2.44 M | 1.04 M | 1.48 M |
| Pretax Income | 3.44 M | 1.83 M | 1.43 M | 2.55 M | 1.13 M | 1.60 M |
| Tax Provision | 684.00 K | 264.00 K | -262.00 K | 137.00 K | 56.00 K | 169.00 K |
| Net Income | 2.69 M | 1.56 M | 1.60 M | 2.30 M | 1.06 M | 1.36 M |
| EPS (Basic) | 0.20 | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.17 | 0.08 | 0.10 |
| EPS (Diluted) | 0.20 | 0.11 | 0.12 | 0.16 | 0.08 | 0.10 |
| Shares Outstanding | 13.79 M | 13.87 M | 14.01 M | 13.96 M | 13.94 M | 13.93 M |
Quarterly figures; YoY compares the same fiscal quarter a year earlier. Source: public market data.