Hirequest is a staffing & employment services business based in the US. Hirequest shares (HQI) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $9.25 – a decrease of 5.03% over the previous week. Hirequest employs 92 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $33.7 million.
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| Latest market close | $9.25 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $9.04 - $15.69 |
| 50-day moving average | $11.41 |
| 200-day moving average | $13.27 |
| Wall St. target price | $14.00 |
| PE ratio | 37.4615 |
| Dividend yield | $0.24 (2.46%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $0.26 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $9.26 from 2025-05-22
| 1 week (2025-05-16) | -4.93% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-04-24) | -11.73% |
| 3 months (2025-02-24) | -39.79% |
| 6 months (2024-11-22) | -39.36% |
| 1 year (2024-05-24) | -27.66% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-05-24) | -60.50% |
| 3 years (2022-05-24) | 14.19 |
| 5 years (2020-05-22) | 72.83% |
Valuing Hirequest stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Hirequest's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Hirequest's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 37x. In other words, Hirequest shares trade at around 37x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Hirequest's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $12.6 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Hirequest's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $33.7 million |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 19.85% |
| Gross profit TTM | $33.7 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 6.13% |
| Return on equity TTM | 5.67% |
| Profit margin | 10.15% |
| Book value | $4.67 |
| Market Capitalization | $136.7 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 32.43% of net profits
Recently Hirequest has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Hirequest shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Hirequest's case, that would currently equate to about $0.24 per share.
While Hirequest's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Hirequest may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
Hirequest's most recent dividend payout was on 16 March 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 2 March 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").
Hirequest's shares were split on a 1:12 basis on 7 December 2017 . So if you had owned 12 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Hirequest shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 1100% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Hirequest shares which in turn could have impacted Hirequest's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Hirequest's shares have ranged in value from as little as $9.04 up to $15.6877. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Hirequest's is 1.198. This would suggest that Hirequest's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
HireQuest, Inc. provides temporary staffing services in the United States. The company offers staffing services, including direct-dispatch, executive search, consultant, unskilled and semi-skilled industrial and construction personnel, clerical and administrative personnel, and permanent placement services, as well as commercial and non-CDL drivers, and skilled personnel in the medical and dental industries. It provides 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.
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