Heidrick & Struggles Internatio HSII

Competitive advantage analysis · industrials

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
61/100
Moderate

Ranked against 22 peers in Staffing & Employment Services

Key strengths

  • Strong Interest Coverage & Conservative Leverage Debt serviceability is strong (score 0.95), with robust interest coverage.
  • Consistent Cash Generation Cash generation is strong and consistent (score 0.93).

Key risks

  • ROIC Below WACC or Peers ROIC at 0th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.

The dashed ring is the peer median. Defense scores are percentile ranks against peers, so 50 is roughly the typical company in this group.

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Pricing Power

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Where HSII ranks in Staffing & Employment Services

Heidrick & Struggles Internatio ranks #6 of 23 scored companies in Staffing & Employment Services by moat score — the top 26%. The widest moat in the group is Barrett Business Services, Inc. (BBSI) at 82/100.

# Company Moat score Rating
2 Korn Ferry KFY 75/100 Moderate
3 Kforce, Inc. KFRC 71/100 Moderate
4 TriNet Group, Inc. TNET 69/100 Moderate
5 HireQuest, Inc. HQI 68/100 Moderate
6 Heidrick & Struggles Internatio HSII 61/100 Moderate
7 ManpowerGroup MAN 59/100 Moderate
8 Mastech Digital, Inc MHH 58/100 Moderate
9 Robert Half Inc. RHI 58/100 Moderate
10 Kelly Services, Inc. KELYB 54/100 Moderate

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How HSII scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 40 · 20% of the moat score

Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.

Cost Advantage

Score 65 · 15% of the moat score

A cost advantage means delivering the same product for structurally less — better purchasing, denser distribution, a more automated process.

Customer Stickiness

Score 66 · 15% of the moat score

Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.

Capital Efficiency

Score 48 · 18% of the moat score

Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.

Resilience

Score 84 · 17% of the moat score

Resilience is the capacity to get through a bad year on its own terms — enough liquidity, enough interest cover, and enough cash generation to avoid a rescue financing or a forced sale.

Scale & Market Position

Score 78 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding HSII's moat

What is Heidrick & Struggles Internatio's moat score?

Heidrick & Struggles Internatio (HSII) scores 61 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #6 of 23 scored companies in Staffing & Employment Services, the top 26%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 22 companies in Staffing & Employment Services. Its strongest defense is Resilience (84/100) and its weakest is Pricing Power (40/100).

How does Heidrick & Struggles Internatio compare with other Staffing & Employment Services companies?

Heidrick & Struggles Internatio ranks #6 of 23 scored companies in Staffing & Employment Services by moat score. The widest moat in Staffing & Employment Services is Barrett Business Services, Inc. (BBSI) at 82/100. The companies ranked closest are HireQuest, Inc. (HQI) at 68 just above it and ManpowerGroup (MAN) at 59 just below it.

How is the moat score calculated?

Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Corporate Default in this case, chosen because the defenses that matter to a bank are not the ones that matter to a software company. Every defense combines several financial signals, and each signal is measured as a percentile against a peer group of 22 companies in Staffing & Employment Services. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Heidrick & Struggles Internatio scored with the Corporate Default template?

Most public companies sell a product or a service at a margin, so the moat question is whether that margin survives contact with competitors. The Corporate template scores the six defenses that show up in a general operating company's financial signature: whether it can hold price, produce more cheaply than rivals, keep its customers, earn a return above its cost of capital, withstand a downturn, and turn size into economics.

Which competitive defenses are measured for Heidrick & Struggles Internatio?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and HSII scores: Pricing Power (40), Cost Advantage (65), Customer Stickiness (66), Capital Efficiency (48), Resilience (84), Scale & Market Position (78). Each is scored independently as a percentile against peers, so a company can be strong on one and weak on another — the overall score reflects how those defenses are weighted for this industry.

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