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 August 24, 2026, HQI stock price climbed to $17.50 with 16,054 million shares trading.

HQI has a beta of 0.37, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. HQI has a correlation of 0.01 to the broad based SPY ETF.

HQI has a market cap of $243.08 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter Hirequest reported $8 million in Revenue and $.23 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $1 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.10.

In the last 3 years, HQI traded as high as $20.17 and as low as $7.38.

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

HQI has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +88.5% while the SPY ETF gained +21.5%. HQI has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +42.0% and +31.8%, respectively, while the SPY returned +3.2% and -1.1%, respectively.

HQI support price is $15.89 and resistance is $18.39 (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.