Financial profile · Q3 FY2026

A volume-sensitive staffing business with thin margins and volatile cash conversion

Staffing scale creates revenue sensitive to labor demand, while thin operating margins make profitability depend on activity levels and overhead control. Capital spending is modest relative to revenue, but payroll timing versus customer collections can make operating and free cash flow volatile.

What is developing

Revenue and earnings improved, but quarterly operating and free cash flow remained negative even as trailing free cash flow returned just above zero. The results show a recovery in reported earnings without yet establishing dependable quarterly cash conversion.

What matters next

Whether operating cash flow becomes consistently positive as payroll and receivables timing normalizes.

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Metric FY2016 FY2017 FY2018 FY2019 FY2020 FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024 FY2025
19.7B 21B 22B 20.9B 18B 20.7B 19.8B 18.9B 17.9B 18B
(16.3B) (17.6B) (18.4B) (17.5B) (15.2B) (17.3B) (16.3B) (15.6B) (14.8B) (15B)
3.3B 3.5B 3.6B 3.4B 2.8B 3.4B 3.6B 3.4B 3.1B 3B
(2.6B) (2.7B) (2.7B) (2.7B) (2.5B) (2.8B) (2.9B) (2.9B) (2.7B) (2.7B)
(2.6B) (2.7B) (2.7B) (2.7B) (2.5B) (2.8B) (2.9B) (2.9B) (2.7B) (2.7B)
746m 824m 836m 720m 371m 620m 656m 460.1m 354.7m 295.3m
(49m) (45m) (42m) (45m) (35m) (32m) (41m) (67.3m) (62.9m) (74.1m)
49.5m 49.4m 47m 44.4m 43.3m 38.8m 46.9m 79.7m 90m 95.4m
— (35m) (39m) 5m (194m) (35m) (74m) (205.6m) (51.5m) (145.2m)
5m (7m) 0 5m 5m 15m 16m 18.7m 16.5m 17.4m
701m 737m 755m 686m 148m 568m 557m 205.9m 256.8m 93.4m
(258m) (296m) (201m) (220m) (124m) (186m) (183m) (117.1m) (111.7m) (106.7m)
444m 441m 554m 466m 24m 382m 374m 88.8m 145.1m (13.3m)
444m 545m 557m 466m 24m 382m 374m 88.8m 145.1m (13.3m)
6.27 8.01 8.56 7.76 0.41 6.94 7.05 1.76 3.00 (0.29)