Company Analysis

Quest Resource Holding Corporation (QRHC)

Nasdaq: QRHC · Refuse Systems · The Colony, TX · filing with the SEC since 2008
Grade3.3
◀ Past 4.3● Present 3.5▶ Future 2.0

The grade of Quest Resource Holding Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
3.3/10
◀ Past4.330% of the headline
● Present3.540% of the headline
▶ Future2.030% 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?

4.3/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.7/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 33% of this tense · 77th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Quest Resource Holding Corporation'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
2.1/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+7.7% a year over 9 filed years; profitable in 2 of 9.

weight 45% of this tense · 21st percentile among 9 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Quest Resource Holding Corporation's 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $138 million in fiscal 2017 to $250 million in fiscal 2025, up 7.7% a year; it rose in 4 of 8 years; the deepest fall was 29% from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 2 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span7.7%bottom 39% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 11% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 28% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak28.7%bottom 6% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
3.5/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 2.5% a year. 0% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 3 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 35th percentile among 8 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Quest Resource Holding Corporation's diluted share count grew about 2.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 3 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-03, buying about $26 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 45% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 25% 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?

3.5/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
4.5/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -38%: lost 38¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 72%: owes 72¢ per asset dollar.

weight 33% of this tense · 45th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Quest Resource Holding Corporation lost about 38 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 29 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 72 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 1.8% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 25% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 25% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 17% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 45% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
3.0/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 30% of 10 in its family; net margin -6.1%.

weight 45% of this tense · 30th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Quest Resource Holding Corporation's standing among 10 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $250 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 50% by size; a net margin of -6.1% ranks in the bottom 35%; revenue growth of -4.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 5% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$250Mtop 50% of its family
  • net margin-6.1%bottom 35% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-4.1%bottom 5% of its family

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

Leadership

as filed
3.1/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 31% of 6 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2025.

weight 22% of this tense · 31st percentile among 6 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Quest Resource Holding Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Moss, Perry W. (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2025-03-12, 1.7 years (bottom 25% of its family); the 9 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.4 years (bottom 25%); 4 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 9 people in charge now (bottom 44%; 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 charge4 in three years among 9 peoplebottom 44% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed5.4 yearsbottom 25% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record1.7 yearsbottom 25% 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?

2.0/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
2.2/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 22% of 10 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 22nd percentile among 10 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Quest Resource Holding Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $1 million against debt of $64 million leaves -43.3% of its assets as net cash, bottom 15% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 3.7% of revenue (bottom 45%); a gross margin of 17% (bottom 6%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-43.3%bottom 15% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue3.7%bottom 45% of its family
  • gross margin17.0%bottom 6% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
1.7/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 17% of 9 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 17th percentile among 9 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Quest Resource Holding Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -4.1% a year over the last three filed years against 7.7% over all 9, slowing (bottom 28% of its family); the newest year grew -13.3% (bottom 6%); capital spending grew -33% a year (bottom 19%) (its annual reports). Quest Resource Holding Corporation reported 3 product lines in fiscal 2025: Services at $238 million (95%), Product Sales and Other at $13 million (5%), Management Fee at $311 thousand (0%); 1 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-11.8 points a yearbottom 28% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-13.3%bottom 6% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-33.0%bottom 19% 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
2.3/10

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

bottom 23% of 8 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 23rd percentile among 8 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Quest Resource Holding Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $250 million in fiscal 2025 came in 14% below the $291 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 19% of its family); net income of $15 million against a prior three-year average of $9 million (bottom 31%); a net margin of -6.1% against -3.3% before (bottom 19%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-14.0%bottom 19% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-63%bottom 31% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-2.9 pointsbottom 19% 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 QRHC · research, not advice