What SEC filings does HireQuest, Inc. submit to the SEC?

HireQuest, Inc. (HQI) submits several types of SEC filings including Form 4 (insider transactions), Form 144 (proposed insider sales), 8-K reports (material events such as earnings releases, acquisitions, leadership changes), and periodic reports — the 10-Q (quarterly) and 10-K (annual). All filings are publicly available through SEC EDGAR.

What does a Form 4 filing tell me about HQI?

A Form 4 for HQI discloses a transaction by a company insider — typically a director, officer, or 10%+ shareholder. It shows the source-reported date, number of shares, price, and updated ownership. These facts do not establish motive or predict future returns.

How do I interpret an 8-K filing from HireQuest, Inc.?

An 8-K signals a material event requiring prompt disclosure. Common triggers include earnings pre-announcements, acquisitions, leadership appointments or departures, credit changes, or regulatory actions. Read the item codes inside the filing to understand exactly what was disclosed before drawing conclusions.

What is the difference between a 10-K and 10-Q for HQI?

The 10-K is HireQuest, Inc.'s annual report with fully audited financial statements, comprehensive MD&A, and complete risk factor disclosures — filed 60–90 days after fiscal year-end. The 10-Q is a lighter quarterly report with unaudited financials filed for the first three quarters. Together they provide a continuous financial picture of the company.

Where can I see all HQI SEC filings directly on EDGAR?

You can view all historical HireQuest, Inc. filings on the SEC EDGAR company page for HQI. Each filing card on this page links directly to the original SEC document.

How often does HireQuest, Inc. file with the SEC?

HireQuest, Inc. files one 10-K per year and up to three 10-Qs per year. Form 4 insider transactions must be reported within two business days of each trade, so the frequency depends on how often insiders are buying or selling HQI shares. 8-K filings occur whenever a material event happens — which can be several times per quarter for an active company.

HQI SEC Filing News — HireQuest, Inc.

Latest SEC filings for HireQuest, Inc. (HQI) explained in plain English. Covers insider buying and selling (Form 4), proposed insider sales (Form 144), material company events (8-K), and quarterly & annual reports (10-Q / 10-K). StrongBuyAnalytics provides navigation and brief excerpts or summaries; original filings remain at the SEC/source links and were authored by their filers, not StrongBuyAnalytics. Filing dates shown are source dates. Coverage and detection can be delayed or incomplete because of SEC availability, amendments, parsing, caching, or outages. Latest source filing date shown: 2026-08-14.

HireQuest, Inc. provides staffing solutions in the United States. The company offers direct-dispatch, executive search, commercial staffing, unskilled and semi-skilled industrial, construction personnel, skilled and semi-skilled industrial personnel, clerical and administrative personnel, permanent placement, commercial and non-CDL drivers, skilled personnel, and executive placement and consultant services. It offers its services under the HireQuest Direct, HireQuest, Snelling, DriverQuest, Hire…

Sector: Industrials Industry: Staffing & Employment Services Market Cap: $252.2M CIK: 1140102

Total Filings

Bullish Classifications

Bearish Classifications

Insider Transactions

Material Events (8-K)

Periodic Reports

Rule-based classifications for HQI currently lean bullish. Of the 12 displayed SEC filing records, 1 carry bullish classifications versus 0 bearish classifications. These labels summarize filing attributes; they are not recommendations, probabilities, or evidence of future price direction. There were 7 insider transactions (Form 4) in this period.

HQI Filing Activity Snapshot 2026-05-12 — 2026-08-14

Insider Transactions (Form 4)

1 buy vs 0 sells

Net insider buying in this period — more purchases than sales reported.

Largest Form 144 Filing

$13.7K

Hermanns Richard (Director, President and CEO, 10% Owner) · 2026-06-05

1,128 shares · Form 4

Insider Transactions 7 · Forms 3, 4 and 5

A Form 4 is filed within two business days of a company insider — an officer, a director, or a holder of more than ten percent of the stock — changing their position in the shares. All 7 filings in this group are Form 4s for HireQuest, Inc.

The difficulty with reading these filings as a group is that a single form type covers transactions that mean entirely different things. An executive spending their own money to buy stock and an executive having shares withheld to pay tax on a vesting grant both appear as a Form 4. Every filing below is therefore tagged with the nature of the underlying transaction, taken from the transaction code reported on the form itself.

Across the 7 insider filings shown, the breakdown is 5 compensation award, 1 gift and 1 open-market purchase. 1 of them involved a discretionary open-market trade; the rest are compensation and administrative mechanics.

What each transaction type means

Compensation award ×5: Shares were granted as compensation rather than purchased. No cash changed hands, so the filing reflects a pay decision by the company, not a judgement about the price.
Gift ×1: Shares were transferred as a gift, typically for estate or charitable planning. No sale into the market took place.
Open-market purchase ×1: The insider bought shares on the open market with their own money. This is the only Form 4 category that requires a discretionary cash outlay at the prevailing price.

Form 4 Compensation award Tax / Compensation Filing 2026-08-14

HQI insider Form 4 filed for equity award, exercise, or tax withholding

Hagenbuch Lawrence F (Director) filed a Form 4 covering compensation-related activity such as stock awards, option exercises, conversions, or tax withholding. These filings are usually neutral.

Shares were granted as compensation rather than purchased. No cash changed hands, so the filing reflects a pay decision by the company, not a judgement about the price.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`A`	Compensation award	802	—	—
`A`	Compensation award	4,000	—	—

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: Hagenbuch Lawrence F (Director) Shares: 4,802

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Form 4 Compensation award Tax / Compensation Filing 2026-08-14

HQI insider Form 4 filed for equity award, exercise, or tax withholding

Shanahan Kathleen M (Director) filed a Form 4 covering compensation-related activity such as stock awards, option exercises, conversions, or tax withholding. These filings are usually neutral.

Shares were granted as compensation rather than purchased. No cash changed hands, so the filing reflects a pay decision by the company, not a judgement about the price.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`A`	Compensation award	4,000	—	—

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: Shanahan Kathleen M (Director) Shares: 4,000

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Form 4 Compensation award Tax / Compensation Filing 2026-08-14

HQI insider Form 4 filed for equity award, exercise, or tax withholding

JACKSON EDWARD (Director, 10% Owner) filed a Form 4 covering compensation-related activity such as stock awards, option exercises, conversions, or tax withholding. These filings are usually neutral.

Shares were granted as compensation rather than purchased. No cash changed hands, so the filing reflects a pay decision by the company, not a judgement about the price.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`A`	Compensation award	649	—	—
`A`	Compensation award	4,000	—	—

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: JACKSON EDWARD (Director, 10% Owner) Shares: 4,649

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Form 4 Compensation award Tax / Compensation Filing 2026-08-14

HQI insider Form 4 filed for equity award, exercise, or tax withholding

Malhotra R. Rimmy (Director) filed a Form 4 covering compensation-related activity such as stock awards, option exercises, conversions, or tax withholding. These filings are usually neutral.

Shares were granted as compensation rather than purchased. No cash changed hands, so the filing reflects a pay decision by the company, not a judgement about the price.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`A`	Compensation award	1,036	—	—
`A`	Compensation award	4,000	—	—

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: Malhotra R. Rimmy (Director) Shares: 5,036

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Form 4 Compensation award Tax / Compensation Filing 2026-08-14

HQI insider Form 4 filed for equity award, exercise, or tax withholding

OLMSTEAD JACK A. (Director) filed a Form 4 covering compensation-related activity such as stock awards, option exercises, conversions, or tax withholding. These filings are usually neutral.

Shares were granted as compensation rather than purchased. No cash changed hands, so the filing reflects a pay decision by the company, not a judgement about the price.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`A`	Compensation award	811	—	—
`A`	Compensation award	4,000	—	—

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: OLMSTEAD JACK A. (Director) Shares: 4,811

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Form 4 Gift Tax / Compensation Filing 2026-06-29

HQI insider Form 4 filed for equity award, exercise, or tax withholding

Hermanns Richard (Director, President and CEO, 10% Owner) filed a Form 4 covering compensation-related activity such as stock awards, option exercises, conversions, or tax withholding. These filings are usually neutral.

Shares were transferred as a gift, typically for estate or charitable planning. No sale into the market took place.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`G`	Gift	300,000	—	—
`G`	Gift	100,000	—	—

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: Hermanns Richard (Director, President and CEO, 10% Owner) Shares: 400,000

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Form 4 Open-market purchase Insider Buying 2026-06-05

HQI insider Hermanns Richard (Director, President and CEO, 10% Owner) bought 1,128 shares (~$13.7K)

Hermanns Richard, listed as Director, President and CEO, 10% Owner at HireQuest, Inc., reported an open-market purchase of 1,128 HQI shares in a Form 4 filing. Insider buying is often treated as a bullish signal because company insiders are committing their own capital.

The insider bought shares on the open market with their own money. This is the only Form 4 category that requires a discretionary cash outlay at the prevailing price.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`P`	Open-market purchase	1,128	$12.19	$13.7K

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: Hermanns Richard (Director, President and CEO, 10% Owner) Shares: 1,128 Est. Value: $13.7K

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Material Events 3 · Form 8-K

An 8-K reports a material event in the window between scheduled reports. There are 3 in this period for HireQuest, Inc. Each 8-K names the item number it is filed under, and that number is the fastest way to tell a routine disclosure from a consequential one.

Item 2.02 is an earnings release, Item 5.02 is a change of directors or officers, and Item 1.01 or 2.01 covers a material agreement or a completed acquisition. Item 7.01 and Item 8.01 are the general-purpose disclosure items and carry no fixed meaning on their own.

Form 8-K Material Company Update 2026-08-13

HQI filed 8-K — material company event

HireQuest, Inc. filed an 8-K with the SEC reporting a material event. Summary unavailable — view the original SEC filing for the full text.

Filing: 8-K (Material Event)

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Form 8-K Material Company Update 2026-08-10

HQI filed 8-K — material company event

HireQuest, Inc. filed an 8-K with the SEC reporting a material event. Summary unavailable — view the original SEC filing for the full text.

Filing: 8-K (Material Event)

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Form 8-K Material Company Update 2026-06-22

HQI filed 8-K — material company event

HireQuest, Inc. filed an 8-K with the SEC reporting a material event. Summary unavailable — view the original SEC filing for the full text.

Filing: 8-K (Material Event)

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Periodic Reports 2 · Forms 10-K and 10-Q

The periodic reports are where the audited and reviewed financial statements live. This period contains 2 quarterly reports (10-Q) for HireQuest, Inc.

The two are not equivalent in weight. A 10-K is audited by an external firm and includes the full risk factor disclosure, business description and management discussion; a 10-Q is unaudited, reviewed rather than examined, and much shorter. When a figure in a quarterly report is later revised, the annual report is usually where the correction appears.

An amended report — 10-K/A or 10-Q/A — restates or corrects something in the original filing, and is worth reading against the version it replaces.

Form 10-Q Quarterly Report 2026-08-11

HQI filed Quarterly Report (10-Q)

HireQuest, Inc. filed its quarterly report with the SEC. This report includes unaudited financial statements and management discussion for the quarter.

Filing: 10-Q (Quarterly Report)

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Form 10-Q Quarterly Report 2026-05-12

HQI filed Quarterly Report (10-Q)

HireQuest, Inc. filed its quarterly report with the SEC. This report includes unaudited financial statements and management discussion for the quarter.

Filing: 10-Q (Quarterly Report)

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How we classify HireQuest, Inc.'s filings

Straight from EDGAR

Each displayed record links to an original source document. StrongBuyAnalytics provides navigation and brief excerpts or summaries, not the filing itself. Parsing may omit context or contain errors, so read the original document in full.

Transaction codes, not guesswork

The nature shown on each insider filing comes from the transaction code the filer entered on the form itself — P for an open-market purchase, A for a compensation award, F for shares withheld to pay tax, M for an option exercise. Where one filing contains several codes, the transaction table lists them line by line.

Why the distinction matters

Insider activity is routinely summarised as buying or selling, which flattens together decisions that mean very different things. Shares withheld for tax on a vesting grant are an automatic administrative step; shares bought on the open market are someone committing their own money at the current price.

What this page does not tell you

A filing records what happened, not why. Form 4 does not always disclose whether a sale was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plan, and no single filing is a basis for a decision on HQI. Read these alongside the fundamentals rather than in isolation.

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