Company Analysis

Healthcare Services Group, Inc. (HCSG)

Nasdaq: HCSG · Services-Nursing & Personal Care Facilities · Bensalem, PA · filing with the SEC since 1994
Grade5.0
◀ Past 4.5● Present 4.8▶ Future 5.6

The grade of Healthcare Services Group, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.0/10
◀ Past4.530% of the headline
● Present4.840% of the headline
▶ Future5.630% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

4.5/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
4.3/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

1 warning event since 2017; the latest 2019-03-04.

weight 33% of this tense · 43rd percentile among 22 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Healthcare Services Group, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2019-03-04) (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
3.1/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

-0.2% a year over 9 filed years; profitable in 9 of 9.

weight 45% of this tense · 31st percentile among 22 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Healthcare Services Group, Inc.'s 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.9 billion in fiscal 2017 to $1.8 billion in fiscal 2025, down 0.2% a year; it rose in 4 of 8 years; the deepest fall was 18% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 9 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span-0.2%bottom 16% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 9% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 25% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak18.0%bottom 25% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
7.5/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 0.6% a year. 36% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 8 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 75th percentile among 22 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Healthcare Services Group, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 0.6% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 36% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 8 sales (1 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-27 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 30% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 20% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

4.8/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
6.1/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 12%: 12¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 36%: owes 36¢ per asset dollar.

weight 33% of this tense · 61st percentile among 22 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Healthcare Services Group, Inc. earned about 12 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 30 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 36 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.3% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 11% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 42% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 45% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 30% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
2.0/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 20% of 22 in its family; net margin 3.2%.

weight 45% of this tense · 20th percentile among 22 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Healthcare Services Group, Inc.'s standing among 22 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.8 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 16% by size; a net margin of 3.2% ranks in the bottom 34%; revenue growth of 2.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 11% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$1.84Bbottom 16% of its family
  • net margin3.2%bottom 34% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth2.8%bottom 11% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
8.5/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 15% of 19 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2015.

weight 22% of this tense · 85th percentile among 19 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Healthcare Services Group, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Wahl, Theodore (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2015-08-03, 11.3 years (top 8% of its family); the 15 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 8.4 years (top 36%); 1 officer or director change was reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 15 people in charge now (top 2%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge1 in three years among 15 peopletop 2% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed8.4 yearstop 36% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record11.3 yearstop 8% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

5.6/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
5.8/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 42% of 22 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 58th percentile among 22 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Healthcare Services Group, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $125 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 15.8% of its assets as net cash, top 2% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 7.6% of revenue (top 39%); a gross margin of 13% (bottom 15%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets15.8%top 2% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue7.6%top 39% of its family
  • gross margin13.0%bottom 15% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
5.0/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 50% of 22 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 50th percentile among 22 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Healthcare Services Group, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 2.8% a year over the last three filed years against -0.2% over all 9, speeding up (top 43% of its family); the newest year grew 7.1% (bottom 48%); capital spending grew 3.7% a year (bottom 45%) (its annual reports). Healthcare Services Group, Inc. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Dietary Services at $1.0 billion (55%), Environmental Services at $825 million (45%); 2 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+3.0 points a yeartop 43% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth7.1%bottom 48% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending3.7%bottom 45% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
6.4/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

top 36% of 22 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 64th percentile among 22 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Healthcare Services Group, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.8 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 6.3% above the $1.7 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 25% of its family); net income of $59 million against a prior three-year average of $37 million (top 39%); a net margin of 3.2% against 2.2% before (top 43%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace6.3%top 25% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+58%top 39% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average+1.0 pointstop 43% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton HCSG · research, not advice