Kforce

KFRC

Staffing & Employment Services · Industrials

Price

$58.56

-0.15 (-0.26%)

Market Cap

$1.04B

Exchange

NASDAQ

Winston Score

Winston is serious

Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Share count falling — buybacks

−16.2% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 21.2M (2021) → 17.8M (2025)

Kforce Inc. provides professional staffing services and solutions in the United States. It operates through two segments, Technology, and Finance and Accounting (FA). The Technology segment provides talent solutions to its clients primarily in the areas of information technology, such as systems/applications architecture and development, data management and analytics, business and artificial intelligence, machine learning, project and program management, and network architecture and security. Th

Winston Score History

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Quality

Gross Margin

27.3%

Modest — 27.3% gross margin

Operating Margin

3.6%

Thin — 3.6% operating margin

ROCE

5.7%

Weak — 5.7% 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

-3.9%

Shrinking sales (-3.9% YoY)

EPS YoY

-22.0%

Earnings shrinking (-22.0% 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

166%

Turns 166% of profit into real cash

FCF Margin

3.3%

Thin free cash flow (3.3%)

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

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Stability

Debt / Equity

0.81

Moderate — manageable debt (0.81)

Interest Cover

100.00x

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Comfortably covers interest (100.0x)

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

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)

30.0x

Pricey — P/E 30.0

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

P/E vs Forward

+12.7

GROWING

Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (30.0 → 17.4)

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Dividends

Dividend Yield

3.10%

Moderate income — 3.10% yield

Standard yield zone for stable dividend payers. A meaningful piece of total return.

Dividend Growth

+2.6%

Dividend flat

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