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GEE Group

JOB
23
Staffing & Employment Services · Industrials
Price
$0.21
-0.01 (-2.90%)
Market Cap
$23.2M
Exchange
New York Stock Exchange Arca
Winston Score
23
Winston is worried
Weak fundamentals across most pillars.

Share count falling — buybacks

5.2% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 115.4M (2021) → 109.4M (2025)

GEE Group Inc. is a staffing company that helps businesses find workers to fill open jobs. It places both temporary and permanent employees across two main areas: professional roles (like IT, finance, and engineering) and light industrial roles (like warehouse and manufacturing work). The company operates primarily in the United States and serves small to mid-sized businesses across a range of industries.

GEE Group earns money by charging client companies a fee — either a markup on hourly wages for temporary workers or a placement fee for permanent hires. It is a small player in the highly fragmented U.S. staffing industry, with no dominant market position or strong pricing power compared to larger rivals like ManpowerGroup or Robert Half. The company is currently unprofitable at the operating level, and its main challenge is improving margins in a competitive market where economic slowdowns quickly reduce demand for staffing services.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

-20.5% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

+100.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Strong earnings growth

R&D Spend

$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (4%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

24.8%ownership

Insiders own a meaningful stake in the company

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$20M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Revenue declining

GEE Group's revenue is actually shrinking. In a growth stock, that removes the core investment thesis. The low Winston Score here may be warranted — unless there's a turnaround story.

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Quality

Gross Margin
38.1%
Modest — 38.1% gross margin
Operating Margin
-0.3%
Losing money on operations — -0.3%
ROCE
-0.1%
Weak — -0.1% return on capital

Negative ROIC means the business is losing money on every dollar invested in it.

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Growth

Sales YoY
-11.5%
Shrinking sales (-11.5% YoY)
EPS YoY
-3417.2%
Earnings shrinking (-3417.2% YoY)

Earnings per share down more than 10%. Either a bad year, or a real decline.

EPS Consistency
2/8 quarters
Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
FCF Margin
2.0%
Thin free cash flow (2.0%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.00
Conservative — low debt load (0.00)
Interest Cover
N/A
Data not available

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
N/M
Negative earnings — P/E not meaningful
P/E vs Forward
N/A
not available
Data not available

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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