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HireQuest (HQI) Debt Ratio (2018 - 2025)

HireQuest posted quarterly Debt Ratio of 0.02 for Q3 2025, down 82.23% year-on-year from 0.13 in Q3 2024, and down 49.49% on a QoQ basis from 0.05 in Q2 2025.

HireQuest (HQI) has 8 years of Debt Ratio data on file, last reported at 0.02 in Q3 2025.

  • For the quarter ending Q3 2025, Debt Ratio fell 82.23% year-over-year to 0.02; the trailing twelve-month figure through Sep 2025 stood at 0.02 (down 82.23% YoY), and the FY2024 full-year result was 0.07, down 47.08% from the prior year.
  • Debt Ratio for Q3 2025 stood at 0.02, down from 0.05 in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Debt Ratio topped out at 0.16 in Q2 2023 and bottomed at 0.0 in Q3 2021.
  • The 5-year median for Debt Ratio is 0.06 (2022), against an average of 0.07.
  • The widest annual swing landed in 2022, when Debt Ratio jumped 2132.2%; it then sank 88.96% in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Debt Ratio shows it stood at 0.04 in 2021, then retreated by 2.41% to 0.04 in 2022, then jumped by 254.86% to 0.14 in 2023, then tumbled by 47.08% to 0.07 in 2024, then sank by 68.06% to 0.02 in 2025.
  • The last three Debt Ratio figures came in at 0.02 (Q3 2025), 0.05 (Q2 2025), and 0.06 (Q1 2025), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) Debt Ratio (Qtr)
1 Korn Ferry 3.61 Bn 2.64 Bn 724.93 Mn 0.10
2 Robert Half 2.93 Bn 2.65 Bn 479.91 Mn -
3 Trinet 2.15 Bn 684.96 Mn 1.16 Bn 0.26
4 ManpowerGroup 1.48 Bn 1.25 Bn 723.00 Mn 0.14
5 Insperity 1.31 Bn 754.86 Mn 302.00 Mn 0.17
6 Barrett Business Services 814.51 Mn 722.64 Mn 43.19 Mn -
7 Kforce 805.03 Mn 803.69 Mn 90.07 Mn 0.24
8 Kelly Services 399.73 Mn 374.13 Mn 196.40 Mn -
9 TrueBlue 187.20 Mn 163.07 Mn 79.02 Mn 0.12
10 HireQuest 182.43 Mn 181.41 Mn - -

Historic Data

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DateValue
Sep 30, 2025 0.02
Jun 30, 2025 0.05
Mar 31, 2025 0.06
Dec 31, 2024 0.07
Sep 30, 2024 0.13
Jun 30, 2024 0.15
Mar 31, 2024 0.15
Dec 31, 2023 0.14
Sep 30, 2023 0.01
Jun 30, 2023 0.16
Mar 31, 2023 0.01
Dec 31, 2022 0.04
Sep 30, 2022 0.06
Jun 30, 2022 0.07
Mar 31, 2022 0.05
Dec 31, 2021 0.04
Sep 30, 2021 0.00
Jun 30, 2021 0.04
Mar 31, 2020 0.00
Sep 29, 2019 0.12
Dec 28, 2018 0.32