KFRCKforce Inc.
Is the price fair?
A demanding price: priced for +15% a year vs −7% a year delivered and at the top of its own P/E range.
Priced for ~15% a year FCF growth. The price already bakes in strong, sustained growth.
Expensive vs its own history: P/E 24.7 vs a 15.1 median over 41 quarters (+63% vs median).
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What KFRC's price assumes
Kforce Inc. trades at 24.7× earnings against 24.2× for the median Staffing & Employment Services name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Staffing & Employment Services median 24.2 · 1.02× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Free cash flow yield
- 2.4%
Free cash flow yield · Staffing & Employment Services median 4.4%
- Growth the price implies
- +15%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +15% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −24% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Industrials median P/E440 names
- 26.5
- Staffing & Employment Services median P/E9 names
- 24.2
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $23M
- Market capitalisation
- $932M
- 3-year revenue growth
- −6.7%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- −24%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $24.38 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $32.09 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $35.80 |
| 52-week range | $23.68 – $60.41 |
| Today | $52.27 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Staffing & Employment Services
Ranks #4 of 9 by RyuScore