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Kelly Services, Inc. (KELYB)

Nasdaq: KELYB · Services-Help Supply Services · filing with the SEC since 1994
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Grade4.6
◀ Past 4.9● Present 4.6▶ Future 4.2
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The grade of Kelly Services, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.6/10
◀ Past4.925% of the headline
● Present4.645% of the headline
▶ Future4.230% of the headline

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

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

4.9/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.2/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 45% of this tense · 72nd percentile among 18 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

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).

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

Track record

as filed
2.6/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

-2.9% a year over 9 filed years; profitable in 5 of 9.

weight 33% of this tense · 26th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

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).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span-2.9%bottom 28% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 11% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 22% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak22.9%bottom 44% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
3.6/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 2.7% a year. 15% of cash flow returned.

weight 22% of this tense · 36th percentile among 14 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

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). No open-market trades by its officers or directors are on the Form 4 record.

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 50% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 21% 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?

4.6/1045% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
4.5/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -26%: lost 26¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 57%: owes 57¢ per asset dollar.

weight 33% of this tense · 45th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

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).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 33% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 18% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 40% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 44% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
4.6/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 46% of 18 in its family; net margin -6%.

weight 45% of this tense · 46th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

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).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$4.25Btop 22% of its family
  • net margin-6.0%bottom 28% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-5.1%bottom 33% of its family

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

Leadership

SI estimate
4.9/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 4.9/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 16 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
No officer or director has filed a Form 3, 4 or 5 for it in the last fifteen months, so the years in charge cannot be read, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 16 members with one.
What the record cannot read
No officer or director has filed a Form 3, 4 or 5 for it in the last fifteen months, so the years in charge cannot be read.
How it was reasoned
family median, 16 readings behind it.
Confidence
20 of 100
What would change it
Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Kelly Services, Inc.'s leadership is put at 4.9 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because no officer or director has filed a Form 3, 4 or 5 for it in the last fifteen months, so the years in charge cannot be read, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 16 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.2/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
4.2/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 42% of 17 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 42nd percentile among 17 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

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).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-3.1%bottom 47% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue2.7%bottom 44% of its family
  • gross margin20.1%bottom 33% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
5.3/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 47% of 18 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 53rd percentile among 18 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

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. tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-2.2 points a yeartop 33% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-1.9%top 50% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-10.9%bottom 41% 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
3.0/10

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

bottom 30% of 17 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 30th percentile among 17 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

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).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace5.1%top 41% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' averagefive times below its prior average or morebottom 9% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-5.8 pointsbottom 24% 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 KELYB · research, not advice