QualityDipStocks / Consumer Discretionary · Business Services
QuinStreet QNST
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 20% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen. No fair value estimate for now: the model’s result is too extreme to stand behind.
Worth knowing
- FCF yield 13%, top 8% of the 1322 we measure
- Down 21% from its 52-week high while revenue grew 18%
From the data on this page, as of the last close. How we pick these
- Fair value est.
- n/a
- Market Value
- $17.85price −2%
- Off 52-wk high
- −20%
- Risk vs market
- Below marketbeta 0.71
52-week range 61% of the way from its 52-week low to its high
Price $17.56Market Value $17.85
5 bullish · 3 bearish See why
Valuation
What we estimate it's worth, and how it ranks on value vs every stock we cover.
Fair value estimate
Estimate unreliable for QNST: the model gives 286% above the price, more than we can stand behind (usually peak-cycle cash flow, heavy debt, or cash flows that include customer or loan balances). We’d rather show nothing than a made-up number.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, QNST’s free cash flow would need to shrink about 9% a year for five years; our estimate uses 15%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 31 to Nov 2, 252 sessions). Beta = how much QNST 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.
Moves a bit less than the market, but its own price swings are 4.7× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 0.71
- Volatility
- 60% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.15
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.08
How it ranks
Where QNST stands vs every one of the 2,467 stocks we cover that has the number. Longer bar = better.
Top quarter on 1 of 5 measures
- Free cash flow yield13% · free cash flow vs market capTop 7%of 1,690
- Dividends + buybacks yield3.1% · cash paid out or used to retire shares, vs market capTop 44%of 2,227
- Revenue growth, last 12 months+18% · vs the 12 months beforeTop 28%of 2,184
- Operating margin2.7% · of sales kept as operating profitLowest 22%of 1,549
- Return on invested capital13% · profit per dollar of capitalTop 34%of 1,001
From SEC filings and our fair value estimate model. A ranking, not advice.
Valuation details
MV $17.85 · FCF value $57.07
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 5 of 5
ValuationFree-cash-flow yield of 12.5% (price / FCF 8.0×): $128M of free cash in the last 12 months.
GrowthSales compounded 31% a year from FY2023 to FY2026.
ValuationP/E of 12.6× vs a 20.1× median for the 411 Consumer Discretionary companies we cover.
ProfitabilityOperating margin widened to 2.7% in FY2026 from −4.6% in FY2024 (SEC filings).
Cash returnsFree cash flow grew 54% over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before.
Top bearish points 3 of 5
ValuationEV/EBITDA of 15.9×, above the 11.9× median for the 281 Consumer Discretionary companies we cover.
ValuationPrice / book of 3.2×, above the 3.0× median for the 413 Consumer Discretionary companies we cover.
RiskReports earnings Nov 4 (consensus EPS $0.25): results can move the price sharply and reset Market Value.
All fundamentals
P/E 12.6 · FCF yield 12.5% · ROE 29%
Valuation
- P/E
- 12.6×Consumer Discretionary median 20.1×
- Price / FCF
- 8.0×
- FCF yield
- 12.5%
- EV / EBITDA
- 15.9×
- Price / sales
- 0.79×
- Price / book
- 3.16×
- Market cap
- $1.0Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- $963M
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $1.3B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +18.3%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- +30.6%/yrfrom FY2023
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $1.40
- EPS growth, last FY
- n/an/m: EPS a year ago near zero
- Net income, 12 months
- $81M
- Net income growth
- n/an/m: earnings a year ago near zero
Profitability
- Gross margin
- 11.3%
- Operating margin
- 2.7%
- Net margin
- 6.3%
- FCF margin
- 9.9%
- Return on equity
- 29%
- Return on invested capital
- 13%
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $128M
- Total debt
- $70M
- Net cash
- $58M
- Debt / equity
- 0.22×
- Interest coverage
- 8.1×operating income / interest
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $128M
- FCF growth, 12 months
- +54%
- Dividend yield
- 0%
- Payout ratio
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Buybacks, 12 months
- $31M3.1% of market cap
- Share count, 1 year
- −1.1%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $37M
Trailing 12 months to Jun 30, 2026; balance sheet at Jun 30, 2026. From QuinStreet’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 $0.1B · Sales +43%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$0.1B
- Free-cash-flow yield12.5%
- Free-cash-flow margin10%
- Gross margin11%
- Operating margin5%
- Return on invested capital19%
- Return on equity29%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+43%
- Net debt / EBITDA−0.9×
Chart & levels
Where the price is vs its key levels and trends.
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $17.56
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$10.56−39.9%
- PriceMon Nov 2 close$17.56you are here
- Market Valueavg paid since Aug 6$17.85+1.7%
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$22.02+25.4%
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 63 · 5 days +8.3%
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.
Next report
Nov 4
- DateWed Nov 4, after the close
- Consensus EPS$0.25
- Year-ago EPS$0.08
- QuarterSep/2026
From Nasdaq’s earnings calendar. A report resets Market Value.
QNST 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 QuinStreet 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
Closest in size in Business Services
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.