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KELLY SERVICES INC

Services-Help Supply Services · DE · CIK 55135

Kelly provides specialty talent solutions, staffing, and outcome-based services for employers and job seekers

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$453M

Market cap

$13.55

Last close

+0.8%

+3.6%

205K

Volume

Price$13.55+6.6%· 1Y

Volume

Jul 10L $8.08 · H $14.64Jul 10

Revenue & earnings

RevenueNet incomeLoss

Fundamentals & quality

Trailing fundamentals · via Polygon & SEC

Rev growth YoY

-1.9%

Trailing 12 months

Gross margin

20.1%

Gross profit / revenue

Net margin

-6.4%

Net income / revenue

ROE

-26.0%

Return on equity

ROIC

-3.9%

Return on invested capital

FCF yield

25.2%

Free cash flow / mkt cap

P/E

—

Price / earnings

P/S

0.1

Price / sales

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May 19, 2026SC 13D/ASC 13D/A May 13, 20268-KBylaw Amendment · Shareholder VoteKelly Services, Inc. held its annual meeting on May 7, 2026, where stockholders approved an amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation and ratified the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. The amendment, effective May 13, 2026, allows for stockholder action by written consent, expands who can call special meetings, and permits stockholders to fill director vacancies.May 7, 202610-Q10-QKelly Services reported a net loss of $5.9 million for the first quarter of 2026, a significant decrease from a net earning of $5.8 million in the same period of 2025, driven by lower revenue across all segments and increased employee-related costs. The company's liquidity remains supported by its credit facilities, with no debt covenants currently being breached.

What Changed

Risk factors · Feb 13, 2025 → Feb 12, 2026

55 added · 18 removed between the two most recent 10-Ks. The risks a company starts — or stops — disclosing are often the story.

Newly disclosed

We face exposure to other significant expenses that could materially impact our financial performance, including cybersecurity incident response and remediation costs, regulatory compliance expenses, litigation and settlement costs, costs associated with employee or candidate misconduct, technology infrastructure investments required to maintain competitive service delivery, and expenses related to bad debt or client payment defaults.
In addition to our ERP initiative, we are pursuing opportunities to integrate artificial intelligence into our business operations, including in the recruiting, applicant tracking, screening, assessment, workforce analytics, and talent management domains.
If we are unable to successfully implement AI tools that meet customer expectations, fail to identify and adapt to changing talent or customer market demands related to AI, or face regulatory restrictions on AI use in employment contexts, our financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.
The proliferation of artificial intelligence-enhanced application materials and fraudulent candidates, including those potentially sponsored by hostile actors, creates operational challenges and exposes us to legal, reputational, and security risks.
If we place candidates whose qualifications have been misrepresented through AI assistance, and those individuals fail to perform adequately or cause harm to our clients' operations, we may face damage to client relationships, customer loss, and harm to our reputation.
These actors may use stolen identities, deepfake technology for video interviews, AI-generated documentation, and other advanced techniques to secure placement in customer organizations with the intent to steal intellectual property, commit fraud, conduct corporate espionage, facilitate cyberattacks, or generate revenue for sanctioned regimes or criminal enterprises.
While we continue to invest in training, enhanced screening procedures, verification technologies, background checks, and fraud detection capabilities, the sophistication of AI tools and the resources available to criminal enterprises and nation-state actors may exceed our detection capabilities.
Candidates may use AI to optimize their resumes for applicant tracking systems, fabricate work histories, exaggerate technical skills, or perform well in initial screenings despite lacking the actual abilities required for the positions.
If approved, these changes would reduce certain impediments to stockholder action contained in our current organizational documents and could, depending on the circumstances, either facilitate or deter third-party acquisition efforts.
Additionally, the rapid evolution of AI technology may require substantial and ongoing investment to remain competitive, and our competitors or new market entrants may deploy superior AI capabilities that erode our market position.
Artificial intelligence is beginning to perform tasks previously handled by knowledge workers, including data entry, basic coding, document review, financial analysis, customer service, and administrative support.
Furthermore, pursuant to a Letter Agreement dated January 30, 2026, between the Company and Hunt Equity Opportunities, LLC (“Hunt”), for a period of three years following the closing of Hunt’s purchase of Class B common stock, certain “controlling stockholder transactions” (including “going private transactions”) must be approved by the holders of Class A common stock and Class B common stock voting together as a single class.

No longer disclosed

The trustees, acting by majority vote, have sole investment and voting power over the shares of our Class B common stock held by Trust K, which represent approximately 95.3% of the outstanding Class B shares.
While we maintain insurance in types and amounts we believe are appropriate for the contemplated risks, there is no assurance that such insurance coverage will remain available on reasonable terms or be sufficient in amount or scope. 11 We are increasingly dependent on third parties for the execution of critical functions and could be liable for their inability to perform or adhere to global compliance standards.
We do not currently use a single enterprise resource planning ("ERP") system, which limits our ability to react to evolving technology and customer expectations and increases the amount of investment and effort necessary to provide global service integration to our customers.
Although we have taken steps to protect such instances by establishing data backup and disaster recovery capabilities, the loss or inability to access of this data or cloud environment could create a substantial risk of business interruption which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. 14 A failure to maintain the privacy of personal data entrusted to us could have significant adverse consequences.
Exchange rates for currencies of these countries may fluctuate in relation to the U.S. dollar and these fluctuations may have an adverse or favorable effect on our operating results when translating foreign currencies into U.S. dollars.
Our international operations subject us to potential liability under anti-bribery, anti-corruption, anti-trafficking, supply chain, trade protection, and other laws and regulations.
Although the technology strategy is intended to increase productivity and operating efficiencies, these initiatives may not yield their intended results.
A loss of major customers or a change in such customers’ buying behavior or economic strength could have a material adverse effect on our business.

Insider activity

Open-market buys & sells (Form 4) · trailing 12 months

3 bought · 2 sold

Net insider $ · by month

2025-12buys ▲ · sells ▼2026-03

Hunt James Christopher

Director

Bought$237K

4 buys

Layden Christopher D.C-suite

President, and CEO

Bought$89K

2 buys

Brock-Kyle Angela

Director

Bought$1K

1 buy

Terence E. Adderley Revocable Trust K

TenPercentOwner

Sold$106.0M

1 sell

Murphy Leslie A

Director

Sold$400

1 sell

Open-market buys & sells (Form 4, transaction codes P/S), aggregated per insider over the trailing 12 months. Source: SEC structured insider data.

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