Kelly Services, Inc. (KELYA)

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Kelly Services, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Kelly Services, Inc.'s 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $5.4 billion in fiscal 2017 to $4.3 billion in fiscal 2025, down 2.9% a year; it rose in 3 of 8 years; the deepest fall was 23% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 5 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-28, Kelly Services, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 2.7% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 15% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 2 sales and 7 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-16, buying about $327 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-28, Kelly Services, Inc. lost about 26 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 38 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 57 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.1% over the year (the filed statements).

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Kelly Services, Inc.'s standing among 18 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $4.3 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 22% by size; a net margin of -6% ranks in the bottom 28%; revenue growth of -5.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 33% (its annual reports).

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Kelly Services, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Layden, Christopher D. (President, and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2025-09-03, 1.2 years (bottom 19% of its family); the 18 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 1.2 years (bottom 3%); 16 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 18 people in charge now (bottom 22%; 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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Kelly Services, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $33 million against debt of $102 million leaves -3.1% of its assets as net cash, bottom 47% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 2.7% of revenue (bottom 44%); a gross margin of 20.1% (bottom 33%) (its annual report).

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Kelly Services, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -5.1% a year over the last three filed years against -2.9% over all 9, slowing (top 33% of its family); the newest year grew -1.9% (top 50%); capital spending grew -10.9% a year (bottom 41%) (its annual reports). Kelly Services, Inc. reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Enterprise Talent Management at $2.0 billion, Science Engineering Technology at $1.2 billion, Education at $1.0 billion. 2 of 3 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 47% of revenue (its annual report).

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Kelly Services, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $4.3 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 5.1% above the $4.0 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 41% of its family); net income of $254 million against a prior three-year average of $9 million (bottom 9%); a net margin of -6% against -0.2% before (bottom 24%) (its annual reports).