Harte Hanks, Inc. (HHS)

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Harte Hanks, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 14 warning events of 3 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, 7 times, the latest 2020-07-13); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, 3 times, the latest 2024-08-23); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, 4 times, the latest 2018-05-11) (its current reports).

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Harte Hanks, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $444 million in fiscal 2015 to $160 million in fiscal 2025, down 9.7% a year; it rose in 2 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 64% from fiscal 2015 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 3 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Harte Hanks, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 0.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 41% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Harte Hanks, Inc. lost about 4 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 78 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 1.4% over the year (the filed statements).

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Harte Hanks, Inc.'s standing among 35 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $160 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 34% by size; a net margin of -0.5% ranks in the bottom 39%; revenue growth of -8.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 10% (its annual reports).

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Harte Hanks, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: no one files under a chief executive's title, so that part is not read; the 3 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.5 years (bottom 48%); 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 3 people in charge now (bottom 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.

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Harte Hanks, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $6 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 6.1% of its assets as net cash, top 37% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -2.8% of revenue (bottom 36%) (its annual report).

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Harte Hanks, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -8.2% a year over the last three filed years against -9.7% over all 10, speeding up (top 25% of its family); the newest year grew -13.9% (bottom 4%); capital spending grew -22% a year (bottom 26%) (its annual reports). Harte Hanks, Inc. reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Fulfillment and Logistics Services at $74 million (47%), Customer Care at $50 million (31%), Revenue Solutions at $35 million (22%); 0 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Harte Hanks, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $160 million in fiscal 2025 came in 9.1% below the $176 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 5% of its family); net income of $811 thousand against a prior three-year average of $2 million (bottom 16%); a net margin of -0.5% against 0.2% before (bottom 40%) (its annual reports).