Industrials
Live Price
Offline$4.50
+0.00% today
1Y Change
-53.56%
Window
Jun 26, 2025 → Jun 24, 2026
Coverage: 258 bars · Jun 26, 2025 → Jun 24, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Hays plc (HAYPY) is a Industrials stock with a market cap of $530.00M and listed on OTC. The stock last traded around $4.50 and down 53.6% across the available one-year price window (Jun 26, 2025 → Jun 24, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of -4.9%, EPS growth of -58.1%, a dividend yield of 1.3%. What stands out right now is revenue -4.9%, EPS -58.1%, free cash flow +42.1% with operating margin 0.6% and ROIC 5.2%. The dividend is present but secondary, with a yield around 1.3%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at price/sales 0.1. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines HAYPY price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Industrials peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
HAYPY
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
HAYPY Max Drawdown
-59.85%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for HAYPY and SPY.
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$5.6B
-14.3% YoY
FY Net Income
$61.5M
-60.1% YoY
Free Cash Flow
-$12.8M
-108.7% YoY
Revenue Growth
-4.9%
EPS Growth
-58.1%
Gross Margin
13.4%
Net Margin
-0.2%
Income statement
GBP
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 6.6B | 6.9B | 7.6B | 6.6B | 5.6B |
| Gross Profit | 250M | 293M | 206M | 1.2B | 918M |
| Operating Income | 15M | 25M | 197M | 210M | 95M |
| EBITDA | 34M | 95M | 267M | 275M | 163M |
| Net Income | -8M | -5M | 138M | 154M | 62M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
GBP
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 169M | 122M | 146M | 296M | 411M |
| Total Assets | 1.8B | 1.8B | 1.9B | 2.1B | 1.9B |
| Total Liabilities | 1.3B | 1.2B | 1.2B | 1.3B | 1.0B |
| Shareholder Equity | 467M | 558M | 670M | 796M | 872M |
| Total Debt | 312M | 244M | 200M | 185M | 201M |
| Net Debt | 144M | 123M | 54M | -111M | -210M |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
6M
-96.5% YoY
Capital Expenditures
19M
+23.0% YoY
Free Cash Flow
13M
-108.7% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
13.4%
Operating Margin
0.6%
Net Margin
-0.2%
ROE
-2.2%
Debt / Equity
0.66x
Next Step
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