“Included in the cash generated for investing activities in the first three months of 2025 is $6.4 million of cash from the sale of PersolKelly investment, partially offset by $2.5 million of cash used for capital expenditures.”10-Q · May 7, 2026 ↗
Kelly Services, Inc.
KELYA
Market read
Kelly Services, Inc.'s current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
No new filing conclusion is available. 0 of 21 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 3 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- KELYA's market-adjusted activity becomes unusual and at least one connected name confirms.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if KELYA's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
No new filing conclusion is available. 0 of 21 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 3 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
No thresholded supportive filing evidence is available yet.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- KELYA's market-adjusted activity becomes unusual and at least one connected name confirms.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
No qualifying supportive evidence was identified.
- Latest annual revenue changed -1.9% year over year.
- Operating margin changed -1.3 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Net margin changed -6.0 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Demand and volume has repeated adverse evidence across 4 filings.
- Restructuring and cost reductions has repeated adverse evidence across 3 filings.
- EV/sales is 76% below the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 11, 2026
15.86Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“The decrease in Education revenue from services of 4.8% was driven primarily by the impact of delayed contract decisions, weather-related school closures and a reduction in demand in key markets due to declines in student enrollment.”10-Q · May 7, 2026 ↗
“Our results continue to reflect reduced volumes in parts of our portfolio driven by lower demand among certain large customers and a more measured approach to hiring among employers in some sectors, primarily in response to the dynamic macroeconomic environme…”10-Q · May 7, 2026 ↗
“The 3.1% increase in Corporate expenses was primarily driven by investment in the Growth Office and other corporate initiatives and increases in our nonqualified compensation plan expense, partially offset by lower integration, realignment, and restructuring…”10-Q · May 7, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 0.1× · EV/sales 0.1×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 11 Sept, 15:55 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for KELYA. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Filing analysis
No comparable filing assessment is available yet
Jodie has not yet found a suitable current-versus-prior filing comparison for KELYA. This does not mean the latest filing was neutral or immaterial.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind KELYA
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
MANManpowerGroup Inc.competitorFeb 12, 2026 ▾
“In 2025, our largest competitors were Randstad, Adecco Group, ManpowerGroup Inc.”
Depended on by
BBSIBarrett Business Services, Inc.competitorFeb 26, 2026 ▾
“BBSI is not aware of reliable statistics regarding the number of its competitors, but certain large, well-known companies typically compete with us in the same markets and have greater financial and marketing resources than we do, including Automatic Data Pro…”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
KELYA is currently a Follower in the organic co-movement group Financial Technology Services. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 2 filing-linked names are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
This group is retained as the last observed read for KELYA; it is not active in the latest market snapshot.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.