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Star Equity Holdings’ largest business is Hudson Talent Solutions (HTS), which helps mid-to-large multinational companies recruit permanent employees and fill temporary staffing needs. Employers pay HTS to manage all or part of their recruitment process and to supply professionals for defined assignments. Recruitment work earns service fees, while contract staffing generally bills clients for hours worked at agreed rates.
Construction is its next-largest business. KBS Builders makes modular buildings in factories for assembly at customer sites; EdgeBuilder and Glenbrook Building Supply provide wall panels and building materials; and Timber Technologies Solutions makes structural glued-laminated wood products. Builders, contractors and project owners pay for these products. Its smaller Alliance Drilling Tools business mainly rents drilling tools to customers in oil and gas and other drilling markets, and also sells equipment and provides repairs.
The business depends chiefly on clients’ hiring needs and continued relationships with a concentrated customer base: one client supplies a substantial share of revenue. Staffing clients can reduce or cancel work on short notice, and major clients regularly put contracts out for competitive bidding. Construction sales depend on project financing and activity, as well as reliable lumber supplies; drilling-tool demand depends heavily on oil prices and customers’ drilling spending.
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ManpowerGroup competes with Star Equity for multinational employers paying for staffing, outsourced recruiting and workforce advice across international markets. Its staffing and interim-services revenue in the Americas is a useful comparison for Star Equity’s contract-staffing business.
Kelly Services competes with Star Equity for enterprise clients that pay firms to run recruitment, manage their workforce and supply professional staff. Kelly’s Enterprise Talent Management business is the closer comparison, particularly its outsourced recruiting and workforce-management services.
Robert Half competes with Star Equity for corporate clients paying to fill professional contract assignments and permanent jobs. Watch its contract talent and permanent-placement revenue separately: they correspond to Star Equity’s hourly contract fees and fees earned when candidates accept permanent offers.
Kforce competes with Star Equity to supply large employers with professional contractors and permanent hires, but concentrates on technology roles. Technology generates 93% of Kforce’s revenue, making its results a narrower gauge of professional hiring than Star Equity’s broader workforce business.
TrueBlue competes with Star Equity for employers paying for outsourced recruiting and contingent workers, though TrueBlue has more general and skilled-labor exposure. Its PeopleSolutions recruiting business is a closer comparison than PeopleReady’s short-term general and skilled-labor assignments.
Circle8 Group competes with parts of Star Equity’s global professional-workforce business by supplying staff and managed staffing services to multinational employers, including European technology staffing. Watch its European technology business as a current competitive overlap, not as part of the acquirer’s 2025 results: the acquisition occurred in January 2026.
Everforth competes with Star Equity to supply professional workers on assignments to large corporate clients that pay for their services. Its commercial assignment work is the closer comparison; IT consulting and federal-government work make the overall results less comparable to Star Equity’s outsourced staffing.
HireQuest’s professional-recruitment franchisees compete with Star Equity for employers paying for executive searches, permanent hires and contract staff. Its Northbound, MRI and Sales Consultants recruitment businesses offer a closer comparison than its light-industrial and blue-collar staffing operations.
Housing Starts (Sep)
Star Equity’s Building Solutions sells modular buildings, wall panels and engineered wood products for construction, so new-home building activity can change customer orders and sales.
Expected1.31MLast release1.275M
If it comes in above expectations
If the reading is above the 1.31M estimate, it is above the previous 1.275M. More homebuilding points to stronger construction activity, which may bring Building Solutions more customer orders and revenue.
If it comes in below expectations
Less homebuilding points to weaker construction activity, which may mean fewer orders and less revenue for Building Solutions.
Robert Half Inc. earningsRHI
Robert Half's contract talent and permanent-placement businesses overlap with Star Equity's contract staffing and permanent-placement fees, showing how demand is changing in work the two compete for.
Read Robert Half's contract talent revenue and permanent-placement revenue separately. The first corresponds to Star Equity's contract staffing, billed by hours and rates; the second to fees earned when candidates accept permanent jobs. Growth in both points to firm employer demand for professional contract staff and permanent hires, a supportive demand signal for Star Equity's overlapping services but also evidence that a competitor is expanding. Weakness in both points instead to cooling hiring demand shared by the two businesses, not just a Star Equity-specific problem.
Fed Interest Rate Decision
Star Equity’s Building Solutions sells modular buildings and engineered wood products into construction, where interest rates and project financing affect customers’ ability to fund work and place orders.
Expected4.0%Last release4.0%
If it comes in above expectations
If rates rise more than expected, customers may face costlier project financing and pull back on construction orders, reducing Building Solutions’ sales.
If it comes in below expectations
If rates rise less than expected or fall, financing may become less burdensome for customers, supporting construction orders and Building Solutions’ sales.
JOLTs Job Openings (Sep)
Star Equity’s Business Services segment provides recruitment and staffing, and client hiring needs drive demand for its recruiting and contracting services.
Expected7.0MLast release7.079M
If it comes in above expectations
More job openings point to stronger hiring demand, which may lead clients to buy more recruitment and contracting services from Business Services.
If it comes in below expectations
If the reading is below the 7.0M estimate, it is below the previous 7.079M. Fewer openings point to weaker hiring demand, which may lead clients to reduce or postpone recruitment and contracting work, pressuring Business Services revenue.
Non Farm Payrolls (Oct)
Star Equity’s Business Services segment provides recruitment and staffing, so changes in employment growth can signal shifts in client hiring and demand for its services.
Stronger payroll growth points to firmer client hiring that may support demand for recruitment and staffing; weaker growth points to less hiring and possible cuts or delays in that work.
Star Equity Holdings, Inc. earningsThis company
Star Equity's Business Services segment supplies most of its revenue, and this report will show whether clients' hiring needs are turning into revenue and operating profit.
Read revenue from recruitment process outsourcing (RPO, where a client hands recruitment work to a provider) and contract staffing alongside Business Services operating income. Contract staffing is billed by hours worked at agreed rates. If both revenue streams grow and operating income rises, clients are buying more and Star Equity is keeping more after delivery costs. If revenue grows but operating income does not, or both weaken, costs are still squeezing profit or client demand is fading; that shows whether growth is improving the segment's economics.
