Healthcare Services Group

HCSG

Medical - Care Facilities · Healthcare

Price

$25.31

+0.33 (+1.30%)

Market Cap

$1.74B

Exchange

NASDAQ

Winston Score

Winston is serious

Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Share count falling — buybacks

−2.6% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 75.0M (2021) → 73.0M (2025)

Healthcare Services Group, Inc. provides management, administrative, and operating services to the housekeeping, laundry, linen, facility maintenance, and dietary service departments of nursing homes, retirement complexes, rehabilitation centers, and hospitals in the United States. It operates through two segments, Housekeeping and Dietary. The Housekeeping segment engages in the cleaning, disinfecting, and sanitizing of resident rooms and common areas of the client's facility, as well as launde

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+3.4% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

+60.9% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (18%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

1.2%ownership

→ Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$136M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

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

Growth context

Healthcare Services Group is growing revenue at 3% year-over-year. The Winston Score measures business quality today — these growth metrics show what could matter tomorrow.

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Quality

Gross Margin

16.4%

Thin — 16.4% gross margin

Operating Margin

7.3%

Modest — 7.3% operating margin

ROCE

6.6%

Weak — 6.6% return on capital

ROIC between 5% and 15%. They earn 5 to 15 cents back per year on every dollar invested.

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Growth

Sales YoY

+6.5%

Slow sales growth (6.5% YoY)

EPS YoY

+72.7%

Earnings growing fast (72.7% YoY)

Earnings growing 25%+ a year. The compounder zone.

EPS Consistency

6/8 quarters

Earnings grew in most of the last 8 quarters

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion

237%

Turns 237% of profit into real cash

FCF Margin

8.4%

Modest free cash flow (8.4%)

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

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Stability

Debt / Equity

N/A

Data not available

Interest Cover

41.98x

Comfortably covers interest (42.0x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)

26.4x

Growth-priced — P/E 26.4

P/E above the market average. People are paying up for expected growth.

P/E vs Forward

+3.1

GROWING

Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (26.4 → 23.2)

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.

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