HQI Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Hirequest | NASDAQ:HQI)

HireQuest Inc is a nationwide franchisor of offices providing direct-dispatch, executive search, and commercial staffing solutions in the light industrial and blue-collar segments of the staffing industry and traditional commercial staffing. The company's franchisees provide various types of temporary personnel through two business models operating under the trade names HireQuest Direct, HireQuest, Snelling, DriverQuest, HireQuest Health, Northbound Executive Search, and MRI. The company's primary source of revenue is royalty fees based on the operation of its franchised offices.

Hirequest trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol HQI.

As of June 23, 2026, HQI stock price declined to $12.38 with 1,122 million shares trading.

HQI has a market cap of $172.58 million. This is considered a Micro Cap stock.

Last quarter Hirequest reported $7 million in Revenue and $.13 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-131,000 and exceeded earnings estimates by $.02.

In the last 3 years, HQI traded as high as $28.18 and as low as $7.38.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that HQI belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, IWM, VXF, IWN, VTWO.

HQI has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +25.4%, while the SPY ETF gained +24.8%. In the last 3 month period, HQI beat the market returning +26.6%, while SPY returned +13.5%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks HQI has underperformed the stock market by returning -3.8%, while SPY returned -0.4%.

HQI support price is $11.52 and resistance is $13.26 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that HQI shares will trade within this expected range on the day.