Stocks · Industrials · Staffing & Employment Services
Mastech Digital, Inc. MHH
$6.92 -3.22% Close, Oct 5, 2026 · AMEX · Market cap $85.8M
Inexpensive vs sector
Next earnings report: Nov 11, 2026
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Three things to know
- Diluted EPS over the last four quarters was $0.18, up 132.6% year over year.
- Revenue over the last four quarters was $176.5M, down 11.8% from a year earlier, slowing from -8.1% a quarter earlier.
- The company holds net cash of $33.5M (cash above total debt).
PromtFinance scores
Each score is a percentile within the Industrials sector (0–100). Under each score: how the stock ranks in its sector on every component. As of Oct 6, 2026.
How fast revenue, earnings and cash flow are growing.
- Revenue growth (TTM, YoY)Bottom 6%
- EPS growth (TTM, YoY)Top 8%
- FCF growth (TTM, YoY)Bottom 49%
- Revenue growth, 3-year CAGRBottom 10%
- Revenue growth accelerationBottom 13%
Returns on capital, margins, earnings quality and balance-sheet strength.
- Return on invested capitalBottom 29%
- Gross marginBottom 49%
- Operating marginBottom 27%
- Cash conversion (OCF / net income)Top 7%
- Accruals (lower is better)Top 36%
- Net debt / EBITDA (lower is better)Top 2%
- Interest coverTop 19%
How cheap the shares are relative to earnings, cash flow and their own history.
- Earnings yieldBottom 48%
- Free-cash-flow yieldTop 12%
- EBITDA / enterprise valueTop 10%
- Sales / enterprise valueTop 2%
- P/E vs own 5-year history (lower is better)Bottom 44%
Strength and persistence of the price trend, including versus the S&P 500.
- 12-month return excluding last monthBottom 38%
- 6-month returnTop 28%
- 1-year return vs S&P 500Bottom 37%
- Distance from 52-week highTop 32%
- Trend checklist (0–4)Bottom 41%
Earnings surprises and analyst sentiment (estimate-revision history is being collected).
- Average EPS surprise, last 4 quartersBottom 50%
- Consecutive EPS beatsBottom 16%
Low volatility, shallow drawdowns, low market sensitivity and modest leverage.
- Volatility, 60 days (lower is better)Top 29%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 yearsBottom 27%
- Beta vs S&P 500 (lower is better)Top 30%
- Net debt / EBITDA (lower is better)Top 2%
What changed
Latest four quarters versus the same period a year earlier (growth: versus one quarter earlier).
| Measure | Before | Now | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (YoY) | -8.1% | -11.8% | ↓ |
| EPS growth (YoY) | 6.1% | 132.6% | ↑ |
| Gross margin | 28.1% | 27.6% | ↓ |
| Operating margin | 0.3% | 0.9% | ↑ |
| FCF margin | 3.6% | 4.5% | ↑ |
Fundamental momentum
| Measure | Now (TTM) | Year / quarter before | Sector rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (TTM, YoY) | -11.8% | -8.1% | ↓ | Bottom 6% |
| EPS growth (TTM, YoY) | 132.6% | 6.1% | ↑ | Top 8% |
| Gross margin | 27.6% | 28.1% | ↓ | Bottom 49% |
| Operating margin | 0.9% | 0.3% | ↑ | Bottom 27% |
| Net margin | 1.2% | 0.4% | ↑ | — |
| Free-cash-flow margin | 4.5% | 3.6% | ↑ | — |
| Return on invested capital | 1.1% | — | Bottom 29% | |
| Revenue growth, 3-year CAGR | -7.6% | — | Bottom 10% |
Quality of earnings and balance sheet
- Cash conversion (OCF / net income)Above 1× means profits are backed by cash.
- 3.00×
- Accruals (net income − OCF) / assetsLower is better; high accruals can signal weaker earnings quality.
- -5.7%
- Stock-based compensation / revenueA cost to shareholders through dilution.
- 1.7%
- Receivables growth vs revenue growthReceivables growing much faster than sales can be a warning.
- +2.7 pp
- Net debt / EBITDABelow 1× is conservative; above 3× is high leverage.
- -5.29×
- Interest cover (operating income / interest)How many times operating profit covers interest.
- 13.5×
Shareholder returns
- Dividend yield (dividends paid, TTM)
- 0.00%
- Net buyback yield (TTM)
- 1.88%
- Shareholder yield
- 1.88%
- Share count change, 1 year
- +0.4%
- Share count change, 3-year CAGR
- +1.1%
Shareholder yield = dividends + net buybacks over the last four quarters, divided by market cap.
Based on the four quarters through Jun 30, 2026 (filed Aug 6, 2026).
Earnings and expectations
Earnings momentum
- Consecutive EPS beats
- 0
- Beats in the last 8 reports
- 4 of 8
- Average EPS surprise, last 4
- +4.8%
- Average 2-day reaction, last 8
- +0.6%
- Positive 20 days after report
- 4 of 8
How the stock reacted to recent reports
| Report date | EPS surprise | 2 days | 5 days | 20 days | 60 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 2026 | -36.0% | +1.4% | -1.9% | -8.1% | — |
| May 15, 2026 | -15.4% | +0.7% | -8.9% | +11.3% | +11.0% |
| Feb 19, 2026 | +0.0% | -1.3% | -17.4% | -20.0% | +2.8% |
| Nov 12, 2025 | +70.6% | +5.4% | -1.1% | +3.3% | -2.0% |
| Aug 13, 2025 | +25.0% | +3.6% | +0.1% | +5.3% | -3.7% |
| May 16, 2025 | -40.0% | -4.8% | -15.6% | -22.3% | -14.3% |
| Feb 19, 2025 | +27.8% | -5.6% | -16.5% | -24.6% | -36.2% |
| Nov 6, 2024 | +76.9% | +5.6% | +23.0% | +40.3% | +31.7% |
Returns from the close before each report. Past reactions do not determine future ones.
Earnings history
| Report date | EPS | Estimate | Surprise | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 2026 | $0.08 | $0.13 | -36.0% | $41.4M |
| May 15, 2026 | $0.11 | $0.13 | -15.4% | $41.1M |
| Feb 19, 2026 | $0.21 | $0.21 | +0.0% | $45.5M |
| Nov 12, 2025 | $0.29 | $0.17 | +70.6% | $48.5M |
| Aug 13, 2025 | $0.15 | $0.12 | +25.0% | $49.1M |
| May 16, 2025 | $0.06 | $0.10 | -40.0% | $48.3M |
| Feb 19, 2025 | $0.23 | $0.18 | +27.8% | $50.7M |
| Nov 6, 2024 | $0.23 | $0.13 | +76.9% | $51.8M |
Valuation in context
| Multiple | Now | 5-year median | 5-year percentile | Sector rank (cheapness) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E (trailing) | 39.3× | 22.6× | 67th | Bottom 48% |
| P/E (forward) | 21.3× | — | — | — |
| EV / EBITDA | 8.3× | — | — | Top 10% |
| EV / Sales | 0.30× | — | — | Top 2% |
| Free-cash-flow yield | 9.25% | — | — | Top 12% |
| Earnings yield | 2.54% | — | — | Bottom 48% |
P/E over the past five years
Range 15.7× – 103.2× since Jun 30, 2021. Each point: price on the filing date divided by trailing-twelve-month EPS known then.
What moved the stock over the past year
- Price return, 1 year
- -6.1%
- Earnings per share growth (TTM)
- +132.6%
- Change in P/E multiple
- -1.8%
Most of the move came from earnings growth.
Technical state
Trend checklist
- ✗ Price above 20-day average
- ✗ Price above 50-day average
- ✗ Price above 200-day average
- ✓ 50-day average above 200-day
- ✗ MACD histogram positive
Trend quality
- Days above the 50-day average
- 0
- Days above the 200-day average
- 0
- 50-day average slope (20 days)
- -2.1%
- 200-day average slope (20 days)
- -0.1%
- Distance from 50-day average
- -7.9%
- Distance from 200-day average
- -1.2%
- RSI (14)
- 40.1
- Relative volume
- 0.62×
Risk and drawdowns
- Volatility, 60 days (annualized)
- 33.1%
- Volatility vs own 5-year history
- 8th percentile · Low for this stock
- Beta vs S&P 500 (2 years, weekly)
- 0.84
- Correlation with S&P 500
- 0.25
- Current drawdown from 1-year high
- -13.7%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 years
- -65.6%
Largest declines in the past six years
| From peak | To low | Decline | Length | Recovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 2020 | Mar 20, 2026 | -74.6% | 1368 days | Not yet recovered |
Declines of 10% or more from a closing high, measured on daily closes.
Financial statements
- Market cap
- $85.8M
- P/E (TTM)
- 39.3
- EPS, diluted (TTM)
- $0.18
- Revenue (TTM)
- $176.5M
- 52-week range
- $5.50 – $8.37
| FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $222.0M | $242.2M | $201.1M | $198.9M | $191.4M |
| Gross profit | $59.4M | $63.2M | $51.0M | $55.6M | $53.1M |
| Operating income | $17.6M | $12.2M | -$9.3M | $3.8M | $1,000 |
| Net income | $12.2M | $8.7M | -$7.1M | $3.4M | $609,000 |
| EPS (diluted) | $1.02 | $0.72 | -$0.61 | $0.28 | $0.05 |
| Q3 2024 | Q4 2024 | Q1 2025 | Q2 2025 | Q3 2025 | Q4 2025 | Q1 2026 | Q2 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $51.8M | $50.7M | $48.3M | $49.1M | $48.5M | $45.5M | $41.1M | $41.4M |
| Net income | $1.9M | $297,000 | -$1.4M | $135,000 | $941,000 | $972,000 | $264,000 | -$100,000 |
| EPS (diluted) | $0.16 | $0.02 | -$0.12 | $0.01 | $0.08 | $0.08 | $0.02 | -$0.01 |
| FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | $5.2M | $12.6M | $16.0M | $7.2M | $11.1M |
| Capital expenditure | -$1.9M | -$835,000 | -$335,000 | -$941,000 | -$376,000 |
| Free cash flow | $3.3M | $11.8M | $15.6M | $6.3M | $10.8M |
| Dividends paid | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Net share buybacks | $301,000 | $263,000 | -$414,000 | $143,000 | -$1.1M |
Cash outflows are shown as negative numbers.
- Cash and short-term investments
- $35.6M
- Total assets
- $109.6M
- Total liabilities
- $17.7M
- Total debt
- $2.1M
- Net debt
- -$33.5M
- Shareholders’ equity
- $91.8M
As of Jun 30, 2026 (filed Aug 6, 2026).
Dividends
| Ex-date | Amount | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 5, 2013 | $0.50 | Dec 20, 2013 |
| Dec 24, 2012 | $2.00 | Dec 21, 2012 |
Short interest
- Shares sold short
- 44,366
- Days to cover
- 6.60
- Change vs previous report
- -10.6%
FINRA short interest, settlement date Sep 15, 2026.
Stock splits
- Aug 27, 2018
- 2-for-1
- Dec 2, 2013
- 5-for-4