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Mastech Digital, Inc.: Form 10-Q for the period ended Sep 30, 2025

Filed with the SEC on Nov 13, 2025 and accepted by EDGAR at Nov 13, 2025, 08:20 ET.

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Management's discussion and analysis

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You should read the following discussion in conjunction with our audited consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes for the year ended December 31, 2024, included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on March 14, 2025.

This quarterly report on Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about future events, future performance, plans, strategies, expectations, prospects, competitive environment and regulations. Forward-looking statements include all statements that are not historical facts and can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as the words, “may”, “will”, “expect”, “anticipate”, “believe”, “estimate”, “plan”, “intend” or the negative of these terms or similar expressions in this quarterly report on Form 10-Q. We have based these forward-looking statements on our current views with respect to future events and financial performance. Our actual financial performance could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements due to the inherent uncertainty of estimates, forecasts and projections and our financial performance may be better or worse than anticipated. Given these uncertainties, you should not put undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. All of the forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by reference to the factors discussed under “Risk Factors”, “Forward-Looking Statements” and elsewhere in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024. Forward-looking statements represent our estimates and assumptions only as of the date that they were made. We do not undertake any duty to update forward-looking statements and the estimates and assumptions associated with them, after the date of this quarterly report on Form 10-Q, except to the extent required by applicable securities laws.

Website Access to SEC Reports:

The Company’s website is www.mastechdigital.com (http://www.mastechdigital.com). The Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, current reports on Form 8-K and all other reports filed with the SEC, are available free of charge on the Investors page. The website is updated as soon as reasonably practical after such reports are filed electronically with the SEC.

Critical Accounting Policies

Please refer to Note 1 “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” of the Consolidated Financial Statements and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations–Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 for a more detailed discussion of our significant accounting policies and critical accounting estimates. There were no material changes to these critical accounting policies during the nine months ended September 30, 2025.

2024 Primentor, Inc. Consulting Agreement

On January 12, 2024, we entered into a consulting services agreement with Primentor, Inc. (“Primentor”) to provide the Company with strategic advisory and management consulting services, as well as any other business and organizational strategy services as the Board of Directors of the Company may reasonably request from time to time. The initial term of the consulting services agreement is for a three-year period that commenced on January 12, 2024, and the Company may request to renew the term for additional successive one-year terms, in which case Primentor and the Company will negotiate to agree upon the scope of the additional services and the amount of additional consulting fees. During 2024, the Company incurred consulting expenses of approximately $1.1 million related to these services. In 2025 and 2026, the Company expects to pay Primentor approximately $270,000 and $120,000, respectively, plus reimbursement of any reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred by Primentor in rendering such services.

Transition of the Company’s finance and accounting functions to India:

During the first quarter of 2025, the Company’s Board of Directors made the decision to implement a long-term cost-cutting initiative to transition the Company’s finance and accounting functions to India. During 2025, the Company expects to incur additional costs related to the duplication of resources and travel expenses during the training and knowledge transfer process. As of September 30, 2025, the Company has incurred approximately $500,000 of additional costs and estimates total expenses to range from $500,000 to $750,000 for the transition period.

Additionally, the Company expects to pay approximately $1.3 million of severance expense related to this initiative. As of September 30, 2025, the Company has incurred approximately $1.1 million in severance. Post-transition cost savings are expected to approximate $1.2 million per annum.

Structural Optimization Costs

During the third quarter of 2025, the Company recorded $1.1 million of severance charges associated with strategic initiatives undertaken to better align our organizational structure with our long-term growth objectives. These initiatives were designed to streamline leadership responsibilities, enhance operational efficiency, and position the Company for improved scalability across our business segments.

Overview:

We are a provider of Digital Transformation IT Services to mostly large and medium-sized organizations.

Our portfolio of offerings includes data management and analytics services, other digital transformation services, such as digital learning services, and IT Staffing Services.

We operate in two reporting segments – Data and Analytics Services and IT Staffing Services. Our data and analytics services are marketed on a global basis under the brand “Mastech InfoTrellis” and are delivered largely on a project basis with on-site and off-shore resources. These data and analytics capabilities and expertise were acquired through our acquisition of InfoTrellis and enhanced and expanded subsequent to the acquisition. In October 2020, we acquired AmberLeaf Partners, Inc. (“AmberLeaf”), a Chicago-based customer experience consulting firm. This acquisition enhanced our capabilities in customer experience strategy and managed services offerings for a variety of Cloud-based enterprise applications across sales, marketing and customer services organizations. Our IT staffing business combines technical expertise with business process experience to deliver a broad range of staffing services in digital and mainstream technologies, as well as other digital transformation services.

Both business segments provide their services across various industry verticals, including financial services, government, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, technology telecommunications and transportation. In our Data and Analytics Services segment, we evaluate our revenues and gross profits largely by service line. In our IT Staffing Services segment, we evaluate our revenues and gross profits largely by sales channel responsibility. This analysis within both our reporting segments is multi-purposed and includes technologies employed, client relationships, and geographic locations.

Data and Analytics:

We provide information regarding our new bookings in our Data and Analytics Services segment, which represents the estimated value of client engagements, including those acquired through acquisitions, as well as renewals and extensions to existing contracts, because we believe doing so provides useful trend information regarding changes in the volume of our new business over time. New bookings can vary significantly quarter to quarter, depending, in part, on the timing of the signing of a small number of large engagements. Among other factors, the types of services and solutions to be delivered, the duration of the engagement and the pace and level of client spending impact the timing of the conversion of new bookings to revenues. In addition, substantially all of our contracts are terminable by the client on short notice, with little or no termination penalties. Information regarding our new bookings is not comparable to, nor should it be substituted for, an analysis of our revenues over time. New bookings involve estimates and judgments. There are no third-party standards or requirements governing the calculation of bookings. We do not update our new bookings for material subsequent terminations or reductions related to bookings originally provided in prior periods.

Economic Trends and Outlook:

Generally, our business outlook is highly correlated to general North American economic conditions, particularly with respect to our IT Staffing Services segment. During periods of increasing employment and economic expansion, demand for our services tends to increase. Conversely, during periods of contracting employment and / or a slowing global economy, demand for our services tends to decline. With economic expansion in 2010 through 2019 activity levels improved. However, as economic conditions strengthened, we experienced increased tightness in the supply side (skilled IT professionals) of our businesses. These supply-side challenges pressured resource costs and, to some extent, gross margins. As we entered 2020, we were encouraged by continued growth in the domestic job markets and expanding U.S. and global economies. However, with the COVID-19 pandemic surfacing in the first quarter of 2020, we realized that economic growth would quickly turn into recessionary conditions, which had a material impact on activity levels in both of our business segments. In 2021, we were encouraged by the global rollout of vaccination programs and signs of economic improvement, however, the proliferation of COVID-19 variants had caused some uncertainty and disruption in the global markets. In 2022 and 2023, COVID-19-related concerns seemed to subside; however, increased inflation, challenges in the financial sector related to increasing interest rates, and concerns about a possible recession created much uncertainty and impacted demand for our services in the second half of 2022 and for the entire year of 2023. In 2024, economic conditions in North American improved over the course of the year as job growth and inflationary outlooks showed positive signs of improvement. However, as we move towards the end of 2025, uncertainty and caution continues to persist in the marketplace, driven in part by lingering questions around the direction and implementation of immigration, trade and other policies under the new administration (including the implementation of tariffs and other trade measures). These evolving dynamics have contributed to extended decision-making cycles and conservative spending behavior among clients. Given these and other factors, it remains difficult to reliably forecast how market conditions will develop for the remainder of 2025 or during 2026 and beyond.

In addition to tracking general economic conditions in the markets that we service, a large portion of our revenues is generated from a limited number of clients (see Item 1A, the Risk Factor entitled “Our revenues are highly concentrated, and the loss of a significant client would adversely affect our business and revenues” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024). Accordingly, our trends and outlook are additionally impacted by the prospects and well-being of these specific clients. This “account concentration” factor may result in our results of operations deviating from the prevailing economic trends from time to time.

Within our IT Staffing Services segment, a larger portion of our revenues has come from strategic relationships with systems integrators. Additionally, many large end users of IT staffing services are employing MSP’s to manage their contractor spending. Both of these dynamics may pressure our IT staffing gross margins in the future.

Results of Operations for the Three Months Ended September 30, 2025 as Compared to the Three Months Ended September 30, 2024:

Revenues:

Revenues for the three months ended September 30, 2025 totaled $48.5 million, compared to $51.8 million for the corresponding three-month period in 2024. This 6% year-over-year revenue decrease reflected a 4% revenue decrease in our IT Staffing Services segment and a 16% decline in our Data and Analytics Services segment. For the three months ended September 30, 2025, the Company had three clients that each had revenues in excess of 10% of total revenues (Fidelity 18.1%, Populus = 12.7% and CGI = 10.4%). For the three months ended September 30, 2024, the Company had two clients that each had revenues in excess of 10% of total revenues (CGI = 14.0% and Allegis = 11.7%). The Company’s top ten clients represented approximately 59% and 56% of total revenues for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

Below is a tabular presentation of revenues by reportable segment for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively:

Revenues (Amounts in millions) Three Months Ended September 30, 2025 Three Months Ended September 30, 2024
Data and Analytics Services $7.9 $9.4
IT Staffing Services 40.6 42.4
Total revenues $48.5 $51.8

Revenues from our Data and Analytics Services segment totaled $7.9 million in the three months ended September 30, 2025, which is lower compared to $9.4 million in the corresponding period last year. The year-over-year decrease in revenues primarily reflects softer demand and slower client decision making cycles for new projects in 2025. New bookings in the third quarter of 2025 totaled approximately $6.1 million, compared to bookings of $11.1 million in the third quarter of 2024, as we saw clients maintaining a cautious approach to discretionary spending amid macroeconomic uncertainty.

Revenues from our IT Staffing Services segment totaled $40.6 million in the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $42.4 million during the corresponding 2024 period. The year-over-year decline in revenue primarily reflects lower demand for our services in 2025. Billable consultants at September 30, 2025 totaled 947-consultants compared to 1,071-consultants one year earlier. Our average bill rate during the third quarter of 2025 was $86.60 per hour compared to $82.80 per hour in the corresponding 2024 quarter. The increase in average bill rate was due to higher quality of revenues in the new assignments during the third quarter of 2025 and was reflective of the types of skill sets that we deployed to clients. Permanent placement / fee revenues were approximately $0.3 million during both the third quarter of 2025 and the comparable 2024 quarter.

Gross Margins:

Gross profits in the third quarter of 2025 totaled $13.5 million, which was $1.3 million lower than the third quarter of 2024 gross profits. Excluding the $0.3 million of severance expense, gross profit as a percentage of revenue was 28.3% for the three-month period ended September 30, 2025, compared to 28.5% during the same period of 2024. This 20-basis point reduction in gross margins reflected higher margins in our IT Staffing Services business segment, offset by lower margins from our Data and Analytics Services segment during the current quarter. Including the $0.3 million of severance expense, gross margin was 27.8% for the three-month period ended September 30, 2025.

Below is a tabular presentation of gross margin by reporting segment for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively:

Gross Margin Three Months Ended September 30, 2025 Three Months Ended September 30, 2024
Data and Analytics Services 46.0% 50.7%
IT Staffing Services 24.8 23.6
Total gross margin 28.3% 28.5%

Gross margins from our Data and Analytics Services segment, excluding severance expense of $0.3 million were 46.0% of revenues during the third quarter of 2025, which represented a decrease of 470-basis points compared to 50.7% of revenues during the third quarter of 2024. The margin reduction was primarily the result of a lower utilization rate in the 2025 quarter compared to the third quarter of 2024. Including the $0.3 million of severance expense, gross margin was 42.8% for the Data and Analytics Services segment for the three-month period ended September 30, 2025.

Gross margins from our IT Staffing Services segment were 24.8% in the third quarter of 2025 compared to 23.6% during the corresponding quarter of 2024. This 120-basis point increase was due to higher quality placements and better pricing on new assignments in 2025.

Selling, General and Administrative (“SG&A”) Expenses:

Below is a tabular presentation of operating expenses by expense category for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively:

SG&A Expenses (Amounts in millions) Data and Analytics Services Segment Three Months Ended September 30, 2025 Three Months Ended September 30, 2024
Sales and Marketing $1.2 $1.7
Operations 0.1 0.2
General & Administrative 2.0 1.7
Subtotal Data and Analytics Services $3.3 $3.6
IT Staffing Services Segment
Sales and Marketing $1.5 $2.3
Operations 1.8 2.2
General & Administrative 3.6 3.6
Subtotal IT Staffing Services $6.9 $8.1
Amortization of Acquired Intangible Assets $0.7 $0.6
Severance Expense 0.8 —
Finance and Accounting Transition Expense 0.9 —
Total SG&A Expenses $12.6 $12.3

SG&A expenses for the three months ended September 30, 2025, totaled $12.6 million or 26.1% of total revenues, compared to $12.3 million or 23.8% of total revenues for the three months ended September 30, 2024. Excluding the severance expense and finance and accounting transition expense in the 2025 period and the amortization of acquired intangible assets in both periods, SG&A expense as a percentage of total revenues would have been 20.5% and 22.5%, respectively.

Fluctuations within SG&A expense components during the third quarter of 2025, compared to the third quarter of 2024, included the following:

  • Sales expense was $1.3 million lower in the 2025 period compared to the corresponding 2024 period. Sales expense in our Data and Analytics Services segment decreased by $0.5 million, which decrease was driven primarily by lower payroll and

related costs. Sales expense in our IT Staffing Services segment decreased by $0.8 million, resulting from lower payroll and related costs, as well as reduced marketing spend.

  • Operations expenses decreased by $0.5 million in the 2025 period compared to the corresponding 2024 period. Operations expense decreased by $0.1 million in our Data and Analytics Services segment and by $0.4 million in our IT Staffing Services segment due to staff reductions.
  • General and administrative expenses increased by $0.3 million in the 2025 period compared to the corresponding 2024 period. General and administrative expenses in our Data and Analytics Services segment increased by $0.3 million primarily due to executive leadership hires and higher stock-based compensation expense in the 2025 period. In our IT Staffing Services segment, general and administrative expenses remained flat.
  • Amortization of acquired intangible assets was $0.7 million in the 2025 period, compared to $0.6 million in the corresponding 2024 period.
  • Severance expense included in SG&A was $0.8 million in the 2025 period, compared to no expense in the third quarter of 2024. The expense related to a strategic initiative undertaken to better align the organizational structure with the Company's long-term growth objectives.
  • Finance and accounting transition expense was $0.9 million in the 2025 period, compared to no expense in the third quarter of 2024. The expense relates to the Company’s decision to transition the Company’s finance and accounting functions to India and includes severance and additional costs related to the duplication of resources and travel expenses during the training and knowledge transfer process.

Other Income / (Expense) Components:

Other Income / (Expense) for the three months ended September 30, 2025, consisted of interest income of $266,000 and foreign exchange gains of $149,000. For the three months ended September 30, 2024, Other Income / (Expense) consisted of interest income of $163,000 and foreign exchange losses of ($30,000). The higher level of interest income was reflective of higher cash balances in the 2025 period.

Income Tax Expense:

Income tax expense for the three months ended September 30, 2025, totaled $294,000, representing an effective tax rate on pre-tax income of 23.8%, compared to $697,000 expense for the three months ended September 30, 2024, which represented an effective tax rate on pre-tax income of 27.1%. The main driver for the lower tax rate in the 2025 period is the shortfall in the expected benefit from stock options, offset by state and foreign tax impacts.

Results of Operations for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025 as Compared to the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2024:

Revenues:

Revenues for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, totaled $145.9 million, compared to $148.2 million for the corresponding nine-month period in 2024. This 2% year-over-year revenue decrease reflected a 3% decrease in our Data and Analytics Services segment and a 1% decrease in our IT Staffing Services segment. For the nine months ended September 30, 2025, the Company had three clients that each had revenues in excess of 10% of total revenues (Fidelity = 15.4%, Populus = 12.3% and CGI = 11.1%). For the nine months ended September 30, 2024, the Company had two clients that each had revenues in excess of 10% of total revenues (CGI = 15.4% and Allegis = 10.6%). The Company’s top ten clients represented approximately 58% and 54% of total revenues for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

Below is a tabular presentation of revenues by reportable segment for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively:

Revenues (Amounts in millions) Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2024
Data and Analytics Services $25.4 $26.3
IT Staffing Services 120.5 121.9
Total revenues $145.9 $148.2

Revenues from our Data and Analytics Services segment totaled $25.4 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $26.3 million in the corresponding nine-month period last year. The 3% year-over-year decrease was primarily driven by continued softness in client demand and slower decision-making cycles for new projects, compared to the corresponding 2024 period. Order bookings for the first nine months of 2025 totaled approximately $23.5 million, compared to bookings of $30.0 million for the first nine months of 2024.

Revenues from our IT Staffing Services segment totaled $120.5 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $121.9 million during the corresponding 2024 period. This 1% decrease largely reflected a lower level of billable consultants, partially offset by an increase in average bill rate due to higher quality of placements in the 2025 period. At September 30, 2025 billable consultants totaled 947-consultants compared to 1,071-consultants at September 30, 2024.

Gross Margins:

Gross profits in the nine months ended September 30, 2025 totaled $40.2 million compared to $40.9 million in the corresponding period last year. Excluding the $0.3 million of severance expense, gross profit as a percentage of revenue was 27.7% for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2025, compared to 27.6% during the same period of 2024. This 10-basis point increase largely reflected improvements in our IT Staffing Services segment, offset by lower margins in our Data and Analytics Services segment.

Below is a tabular presentation of gross margin by reporting segment for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively:

Gross Margin Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2024
Data and Analytics Services 45.1% 48.9%
IT Staffing Services 24.0 23.0
Total gross margin 27.7% 27.6%

Gross margins from our Data and Analytics Services segment, excluding severance expense of $0.3 million were 45.1% of revenues during the nine-month period ended September 30, 2025, compared to 48.9% in the corresponding period of 2024. This gross margin decrease reflected lower utilization rates during the first nine months of 2025. Including the $0.3 million of severance expense, gross margins were 44.1% for the Data and Analytics Services segment for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2025.

Gross margins from our IT Staffing Services segment were 24.0% in the nine months ended September 30, 2025, compared to 23.0% during the corresponding period of 2024. This 100-basis point increase was due to higher margins and bill rates on new assignments in 2025.

Selling, General and Administrative (“SG&A”) Expenses:

Below is a tabular presentation of operating expenses by expense category for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, and 2024, respectively:

SG&A Expenses (Amounts in millions) Data and Analytics Services Segment Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2024
Sales and Marketing $5.1 $6.0
Operations 0.5 0.5
General & Administrative 5.9 5.0
Subtotal Data and Analytics Services $11.5 $11.5
IT Staffing Services Segment
Sales and Marketing $6.2 $6.7
Operations 5.7 6.4
General & Administrative 11.8 10.6
Subtotal IT Staffing Services $23.7 $23.7
Amortization of Acquired Intangible Assets $1.9 $2.0
Severance Expense 2.5 —
Finance and Accounting Transition Expense 1.6 —
Total SG&A Expenses $41.2 $37.2

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SG&A expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, totaled $41.2 million or 28.2% of total revenues, compared to $37.2 million or 25.1% of total revenues for the nine months ended September 30, 2024. Excluding the severance expense and finance and accounting transition expense in the 2025 period and the amortization of acquired intangible assets in both periods, SG&A expense as a percentage of total revenues would have been 24.1% and 23.7%, respectively.

Fluctuations within SG&A expense components during the first nine months of 2025, compared to the first nine months of 2024, included the following:

  • Sales expense decreased by $1.4 million in the 2025 period compared to the corresponding 2024 period. Sales expense decreased by $0.9 million in our Data and Analytics Services segment and by $0.5 million in our IT Staffing Services segment due to staff reductions and lower marketing spend.
  • Operations expense decreased by $0.7 million in the 2025 period compared to the corresponding 2024 period. The entire decline occurred in our IT Staffing Services segment due to staff reductions.
  • General and administrative expense increased by $2.1 million in the 2025 period compared to the corresponding 2024 period. In our Data and Analytics Services segment, general and administrative expense increased by $0.9 million and by $1.2 million in our IT Staffing Services segment due to executive compensation, including stock based compensation, as well as executive recruiting costs and bad debt expense.
  • Amortization of acquired intangible assets was $0.1 million lower in the 2025 period compared to the corresponding 2024 period, as a portion of our intangible assets became fully amortized in 2025.
  • Severance expense was $2.5 million in the 2025 period, compared to no expense in the 2024 period. The expense related to the Company’s exiting Chief Financial Officer, IT Staffing Sales Management and the Structural Optimization Costs described above.
  • Finance and accounting transition expense was $1.6 million in the 2025 period, compared to no expense in the 2024 period. The expense relates to the Company’s decision to transition the Company’s finance and accounting functions to India and includes severance and additional costs related to the duplication of resources and travel expenses during the training and knowledge transfer process.

Other Income / (Expense) Components:

Other Income / (Expense) for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, consisted of net interest income of $571,000 and foreign exchange gains of $118,000. For the nine months ended September 30, 2024, Other Income / (Expense) consisted of interest income of $447,000 and foreign exchange losses of ($74,000). The higher level of interest income was reflective of higher cash balances on hand in the 2025 period.

Income Tax Expense:

Income tax expense for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 totaled $46,000 representing an effective tax rate on pre-tax losses of (14.5%) compared to $994,000 for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, which represented a 24.2% effective tax rate on pre-tax income. The main driver for the tax rate in the 2025 period is the shortfall in the expected benefit from stock options, as well as state and foreign tax impacts. The 2024 period was also impacted by the utilization of Singapore tax benefits from our worthless stock deductions.

Liquidity and Capital Resources:

Financial Conditions and Liquidity:

As of September 30, 2025, we had no bank debt, cash balances on hand of $32.7 million and approximately $20.8 million of borrowing capacity under our existing credit facility.

Historically, we have funded our organic business needs with cash generated from operating activities. Controlling our operating working capital levels by closely managing our accounts receivable balance is an important element of cash generation. As of September 30, 2025, our accounts receivable “days sales outstanding” (“DSOs”) measurement increased to 55-days, which was the level reported at September 30, 2024.

We believe that cash provided by operating activities, cash balances on hand and current availability under our credit facility will be adequate to fund our business needs and support our share repurchase program that we announced in February 2023 over the next twelve months, absent any acquisition-related activities.

Cash flows provided by (used in) operating activities:

Cash provided by operating activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, totaled $6.8 million compared to $3.2 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2024. Elements of cash flow during the 2025 period were a net (loss) of ($0.4) million, non-cash charges of $2.8 million and a decrease in operating working capital levels of $4.4 million. Elements of cash flow during the corresponding 2024 period were a net income of $3.1 million, non-cash charges of $4.4 million and an increase in operating working capital levels of ($4.3 million). Operating working capital decreased in 2025 due to lower accounts receivable and an increase in accrued payroll liabilities.

Cash flows (used in) investing activities:

Cash (used in) investing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, was ($369,000) compared to ($825,000) for the nine months ended September 30, 2024. In 2025 investing activities included capital expenditures of ($351,000), and office lease deposits of ($18,000). In 2024, investing activities consisted primarily of capital expenditures.

Cash flows provided by (used in) financing activities:

Cash provided by (used in) financing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, totaled ($992,000) and consisted of proceeds from the exercise of stock options of $530,000, the issuance of common shares related to our Employee Stock Purchase Plan of $70,000, offset by the purchase of treasury shares of ($1,592,000). Cash provided by financing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, totaled $496,000 and consisted of proceeds from the exercise of stock options of $440,000, the issuance of common shares related to our Employee Stock Purchase Plan of $136,000, partially offset by the purchase of treasury shares of ($80,000).

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements:

Other than $324,000 in outstanding letters of credit issued under our Credit Agreement, we do not have any off-balance sheet arrangements. For further details about the outstanding letters of credit, refer to Note 8 — “Credit Facility” in the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements included herein.

Inflation:

We do not believe that inflation had a significant impact on our results of operations for the periods presented, although economic uncertainty, including the concerns of our clients and other companies with respect to inflationary conditions in North America and elsewhere, has had and may continue to have an adverse impact on the demand for our services. On an ongoing basis, we attempt to minimize any effects of inflation on our operating results by controlling operating costs and, whenever possible, seek to ensure that billing rates reflect increases in costs due to inflation. However, high levels of inflation may result in higher interest rates which could increase our borrowing costs in the future if we elect to draw on our current or future credit facilities.

In addition, refer to “Item 1A. Risk factors” in our 2024 Annual Report on Form 10-K for a discussion about risks that inflation directly or indirectly may pose to our business.

Seasonality:

Our consultants’ billable hours are affected by national holidays and vacation policies. Accordingly, we generally have lower utilization rates and higher benefit costs during the fourth quarter. Additionally, assignment completions tend to be higher near the end of the calendar year, which largely impacts our revenue and gross profit performance during the subsequent quarter.

Recently Issued Accounting Standards:

Recent accounting pronouncements are described in Note 13 to the accompanying financial statements.

Market risk

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In addition to the inherent operational risks, the Company is exposed to certain market risks, primarily related to changes in interest rates and currency fluctuations.

Interest Rates

As of September 30, 2025, we had no outstanding borrowings under the Credit Agreements — Refer to Note 8 — “Credit Facility” in the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements, included herein.

Currency Fluctuations

The reporting currency of the Company and its subsidiaries is the U.S. dollar. The functional currency of the Company’s subsidiary in Canada is the U.S. dollar because the majority of its revenue is denominated in U.S. dollars. The functional currencies of the Company’s Indian and European subsidiaries are the local currency of the location of such subsidiary. The results of operations of the Company’s Indian and European subsidiaries are translated at the monthly average exchange rates prevailing during the period. The financial position of the Company’s Indian and European subsidiaries is translated at the current exchange rates at the end of the period, and the related translation adjustments are recorded as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) within Shareholders’ Equity. Gains and losses resulting from foreign currency transactions are included as a component of other income (expense), net in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations, and have not been material for all periods presented. A hypothetical 10% increase or decrease in overall foreign currency rates in the first six months of 2025 would not have had a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

Controls and procedures

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Disclosure Controls and Procedures

The Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the reports that the Company files or submits under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including its Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

As of the end of the period covered by this report, the Company carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of Company management, including the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures pursuant to Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(b). Based upon that evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer concluded that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective.

We do not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures will prevent all errors and all instances of fraud. Disclosure controls and procedures, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the disclosure controls and procedures are met. Further, the design of disclosure controls and procedures must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all disclosure controls and procedures, no evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures can provide absolute assurance that we have detected all our control deficiencies and instances of fraud, if any. The design of disclosure controls and procedures also is based partly on certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended September 30, 2025 that materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

Risk factors

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There have been no material changes from the risk factors as previously disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the SEC on March 14, 2025.

Figures reported in this filing

Standardized line items from the XBRL in this filing, for the period ended 2025-09-30. Comparative periods it repeats are left out.

Figures reported in this filing
Line itemPeriodValueXBRL concept
Revenue3 months2025-07-01 to 2025-09-30$48.5mus-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax
Revenue9 months2025-01-01 to 2025-09-30$145.9mus-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax
Cost of revenue3 months2025-07-01 to 2025-09-30$35.0mus-gaap:CostOfRevenue
Cost of revenue9 months2025-01-01 to 2025-09-30$105.7mus-gaap:CostOfRevenue
Gross profit3 months2025-07-01 to 2025-09-30$13.5mus-gaap:GrossProfit
Gross profit9 months2025-01-01 to 2025-09-30$40.2mus-gaap:GrossProfit
Selling, general and administrative3 months2025-07-01 to 2025-09-30$12.6mus-gaap:SellingGeneralAndAdministrativeExpense
Selling, general and administrative9 months2025-01-01 to 2025-09-30$41.2mus-gaap:SellingGeneralAndAdministrativeExpense
Operating income3 months2025-07-01 to 2025-09-30$820.0kus-gaap:OperatingIncomeLoss
Operating income9 months2025-01-01 to 2025-09-30−$1.0mus-gaap:OperatingIncomeLoss
Income tax3 months2025-07-01 to 2025-09-30$294.0kus-gaap:IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit
Income tax9 months2025-01-01 to 2025-09-30$46.0kus-gaap:IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit
Net income3 months2025-07-01 to 2025-09-30$941.0kus-gaap:NetIncomeLoss
Net income9 months2025-01-01 to 2025-09-30−$363.0kus-gaap:NetIncomeLoss
Diluted EPS3 months2025-07-01 to 2025-09-30$0.08us-gaap:EarningsPerShareDiluted
Diluted EPS9 months2025-01-01 to 2025-09-30−$0.03us-gaap:EarningsPerShareDiluted
Basic EPS3 months2025-07-01 to 2025-09-30$0.08us-gaap:EarningsPerShareBasic
Basic EPS9 months2025-01-01 to 2025-09-30−$0.03us-gaap:EarningsPerShareBasic
Diluted shares (weighted)3 months2025-07-01 to 2025-09-3011,945,000 sharesus-gaap:WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding
Diluted shares (weighted)9 months2025-01-01 to 2025-09-3011,761,000 sharesus-gaap:WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding
Operating cash flow9 months2025-01-01 to 2025-09-30$6.8mus-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities
Capital expenditure9 months2025-01-01 to 2025-09-30$351.0kus-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment
Cash and equivalentsAt period end2025-09-30$32.7mus-gaap:CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue
Current assetsAt period end2025-09-30$69.3mus-gaap:AssetsCurrent
Total assetsAt period end2025-09-30$112.6mus-gaap:Assets
Current liabilitiesAt period end2025-09-30$22.6mus-gaap:LiabilitiesCurrent
Total liabilitiesAt period end2025-09-30$24.6mus-gaap:Liabilities
Shareholders' equityAt period end2025-09-30$88.0mus-gaap:StockholdersEquity

Source: SEC EDGAR, the filing index for accession 0001193125-25-279079. Last ingested by Listed: Oct 30, 2026, 10:01 ET. Listed shows no prices and gives no investment advice.