QualityDipStocks / Consumer Discretionary · Professional Services
Kforce KFRC
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 4% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen. No fair value estimate for now: a capital-spending surge is squeezing its free cash flow.
Worth knowing
- Share count down 9% in 2 years
From the data on this page, as of the last close. How we pick these
- Fair value est.
- n/a
- Market Value
- $57.38price +2%
- Off 52-wk high
- −4%
- Risk vs market
- Lowbeta −0.39
52-week range 94% of the way from its 52-week low to its high
Price $58.27Market Value $57.38
3 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Repriced or dip?
Near its high
The price is 4% below its 52-week high (Aug 13), but the business held up: revenue growth rate +3.4 pts, earnings per share +10.8%, operating margin +0.5 pts.
Some numbers held up (revenue growth rate +3.4 pts, earnings per share +10.8%, operating margin +0.5 pts), others slipped (free cash flow −61.7%). The price is 4% below its 52-week high.
The price is 4% below its 52-week high, and the business changed too: free cash flow −61.7%.
Within 10% of its 52-week high, so there is no dip to judge yet.
Data-based read, not advice.
Priced in
How much growth the market assumed at the 52-week high, the low and today (a reverse DCF).
At the high ($60.45, Aug 13) the price assumed about 22%/yr free-cash-flow growth; at the low ($24.54, Nov 3) about −11%; today about 41%. The last 3 years delivered −17%/yr (free cash flow).
Dashed line: what the last 3 years delivered, −17%/yr (free cash flow)
| High | Low | Now | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $60.45Aug 13 | $24.54Nov 3 | $58.27 |
| Implied growth | +22% | −11% | +41% |
| P/E | 28.1× | 9.9× | 24.5× |
| P/FCF | 45.5× | 7.2× | 115.8× |
What this means: the higher the implied growth, the more the price already counts on. If today's number sits well below what the business has delivered, the market expects less than its track record.
How it’s computed
Reverse DCF: the same 10-year free-cash-flow model as our fair value estimate (9.5% discount rate, growth for years 1–5 fading to 3% by year 10, 3% after), solved for the growth that makes it equal the market value at each price. For the high and the low we use only the filings that were public on that day, so nothing from a later report leaks back. Market value = that close × diluted shares. P/E = market value / 12-month net income; Price / FCF = market value / 12-month free cash flow; EV / Sales = (market value + debt − cash) / 12-month revenue. Hidden when the share count moved over 20% (split, merger), free cash flow is negative, or the company reports in another currency.
Valuation
What we estimate it's worth, and how it ranks on value vs every stock we cover.
Fair value estimate
Estimate unreliable for KFRC: free cash flow is squeezed by a capital-spending surge (capex is 62% of operating cash flow over the last 12 months, vs 8% in FY2023), so a DCF on today's free cash flow would understate the business. We’d rather show nothing than a made-up number.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 31 to Nov 2, 252 sessions). Beta = how much KFRC moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Has moved mostly independently of the market, but its own price swings are 5.2× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).
- Beta vs S&P 500
- -0.39
- Volatility
- 66% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- −0.08
- Correlation QQQ
- −0.15
How it ranks
Where KFRC stands vs every one of the 2,467 stocks we cover that has the number. Longer bar = better.
Not in the top quarter on any of these 4 measures
- Free cash flow yield0.9% · free cash flow vs market capLowest 23%of 1,690
- Dividends + buybacks yield5.2% · cash paid out or used to retire shares, vs market capTop 25%of 2,227
- Revenue growth, last 12 months+2.1% · vs the 12 months beforeLowest 21%of 2,184
- Operating margin4.5% · of sales kept as operating profitLowest 28%of 1,549
From SEC filings and our fair value estimate model. A ranking, not advice.
Valuation details
MV $57.38
Fundamentals
The business itself: sales, profits, cash and debt, from SEC filings.
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 3 of 5
ProfitabilityReturn on equity of 30% over the last 12 months.
Cash returnsShare count down 2.4% in a year: $25M of buybacks over 12 months.
Cash returnsDividend yield of 2.7% ($27M paid over 12 months, 66% of earnings).
Top bearish points 5 of 5
Cash returnsFree cash flow fell 84% over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before.
GrowthSales shrank 8% a year from FY2022 to FY2025.
GrowthDiluted EPS fell 27% to $1.96 in FY2025.
ProfitabilityReturn on equity fell 10 points in two fiscal years, to 28% in FY2025.
ValuationFree-cash-flow yield is just 0.9% (price / FCF 116×), so the price leans on future growth.
All fundamentals
P/E 24.5 · FCF yield 0.9% · ROE 30%
Valuation
- P/E
- 24.5×Consumer Discretionary median 20.1×
- Price / FCF
- 115.8×
- FCF yield
- 0.9%
- EV / EBITDA
- n/aD&A or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Price / sales
- 0.73×
- Price / book
- 7.35×
- Market cap
- $1.0Blisted
- Enterprise value
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $1.4B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +2.1%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- −8.1%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $2.38
- EPS growth, last FY
- −26.9%
- Net income, 12 months
- $41M
- Net income growth
- +0%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- 27.8%
- Operating margin
- 4.5%
- Net margin
- 3.0%
- FCF margin
- 0.6%
- Return on equity
- 30%
- Return on invested capital
- n/aoperating income, debt, equity or cash not tagged
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $250,000
- Total debt
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Net cash
- n/acash or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Debt / equity
- n/adebt or equity not tagged in SEC data
- Interest coverage
- n/ainterest expense not tagged in SEC data
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $9M
- FCF growth, 12 months
- −84%
- Dividend yield
- 2.69%$27M paid
- Payout ratio
- 66%
- Buybacks, 12 months
- $25M2.5% of market cap
- Share count, 1 year
- −2.4%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $15M
Trailing 12 months to Sep 30, 2026; balance sheet at Sep 30, 2026. From Kforce’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
The business
FCF $0.0B · Sales +8%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$0.0B
- Free-cash-flow yield0.9%
- Free-cash-flow margin2%
- Gross margin28%
- Operating margin6%
- Return on invested capital26%
- Return on equity30%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+8%
- Net debt / EBITDA1.9×
Chart & levels
Where the price is vs its key levels and trends.
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $58.27
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$24.54−57.9%
- Market Valueavg paid since Oct 26$57.38−1.5%
- PriceMon Nov 2 close$58.27you are here
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$60.45+3.7%
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 66 · 5 days −0.3%
Signals
Reversal signal setups, the public ledger and the next earnings date.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
KFRC is outside our quality screen
One text when a published rule fires on one of the 332 quality companies we track: the ticker, the price, the stop and a link to the numbers. Nothing else.
Voices & buzz
Who is talking about it, and how it compares with peers.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Kforce in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 3, 5:14 PM ET.
Compare with peers
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Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.