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Kelly Services Inc. KELYA

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$4.3B
▼ 1.9% YoY
$-254.1M
$114.1M
▲ 622.2% YoY

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

In brief

What this company does

Kelly provides temporary and permanent staffing services, outcome-based solutions, recruitment process outsourcing, managed service provider programs and payroll process outsourcing. It operates in three specialized business units, which are also its reportable segments. As of December 28, 2025, the company employed approximately 3,600 full-time staff members in the United States and an additional 1,300 in its international locations. In 2025, together with its supplier partners, Kelly placed approximately 375,000 workers with customers around the globe. Its Enterprise Talent Management segment delivers temporary staffing, outcome-based and permanent placement services focused on light industrial, contact center and office and clerical specialties in North America. Its Science, Engineering & Technology segment provides specialized skills to a variety of industries through temporary staffing, outcome-based and permanent placement services, focused predominantly in North America. Its Education segment delivers education and therapy services talent through temporary staffing, permanent placement and executive search services to Pre-K-12 school districts and education organizations across the United States. The company traces its founding to 1946, when William Russell Kelly established Kelly.

Written from the business description in KELLY SERVICES INC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 12 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 4.3B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 4.3 · Net income -0.3
2B4B
2009201220152018202120242025
Compound annual growth
−5.0%
−1.2%
−2.6%
−1.0%
+2.9%
+8.4%
+1.2%
+29.7%
+3.6%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at −1.2% a year over the five years to FY2025.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

−6 cents
lost on every revenue dollar
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating -1.6% · Net -6.0%
1%2%3%-2%-4%
200920172025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE -23.0%
5%10%-10%-20%
200920172025
Three returns, three denominators.

Each USD of equity lost 23 cents this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 11.0M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 114.1
100M200M-40M-80M
200920172025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 11.0 · Net buybacks ·
5M10M
20112013201520172019202120232025

USD 11.0M in dividends went back to shareholders in a year without profit.

Total assetsUSD 2.3B
EquityUSD 976.5M
CashUSD 33.0M
Gross debtUSD 101.9M
Net debtUSD 68.9M
Current ratio1.54×

Net debt stands at 7% of equity.

The 17-year record

17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
KELYA, 17-year financial record
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B4.34.34.85.04.94.55.45.55.45.35.55.65.45.55.65.04.3
Operating income $B−0.1−0.00.00.00.0−0.10.10.10.10.10.10.00.10.10.10.0−0.1
EBITDA $B−0.00.00.10.00.1−0.10.10.10.10.10.10.00.10.10.10.0−0.1
Income tax $B0.2−0.0−0.0−0.00.0−0.00.0−0.00.00.00.0−0.0−0.00.0−0.00.0−0.0
Net income $B−0.3−0.00.0−0.10.2−0.10.10.00.10.10.10.00.10.10.10.0−0.1
Free cash flow $B0.10.00.1−0.10.10.20.10.00.00.00.0−0.10.10.00.00.0−0.0
EPS, diluted $−7.24−0.020.98−1.643.91−1.832.840.581.813.081.390.611.541.321.690.71−3.00
Dividend / sh $◌◌◌◌◌◌0.300.300.300.280.200.200.200.200.10◌◌
Payout %−4−181730−173−41152169143213156——
ROE %−23.0−0.02.9−4.812.3−5.89.32.06.612.76.22.97.57.19.84.4−18.4

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures · 6 divergences in 83 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 11 of the 17 fiscal years we could check. 6 of those reconciliations are divergences — the figures exist but don't fit the formula this check expects; that isn't the same as an error. Six checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2010. Two checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2009. Two checks were skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2009.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures6 divergent
ActivityServices-Help Supply Services
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsJanuary 3
Data on record since2009

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