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Harte Hanks Inc (HHS)

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$3.69
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Upturn Advisory Summary

09/16/2025: HHS (1-star) is currently NOT-A-BUY. Pass it for now.

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Not Recommended Performance

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Number of Analysts

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1 Analysts rated it

Very few follow this stock; limited insights, higher-risk early investing.

1 Year Target Price $17.5

1 Year Target Price $17.5

Analysts Price Target For last 52 week
$17.5 Target price
52w Low $3.06
Current$3.69
52w High $7.72

Analysis of Past Performance

Type Stock
Historic Profit -12.66%
Avg. Invested days 60
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Key Highlights

Company Size Small-Cap Stock
Market Capitalization 28.21M USD
Price to earnings Ratio -
1Y Target Price 17.5
Price to earnings Ratio -
1Y Target Price 17.5
Volume (30-day avg) 1
Beta -0.06
52 Weeks Range 3.06 - 7.72
Updated Date 09/16/2025
52 Weeks Range 3.06 - 7.72
Updated Date 09/16/2025
Dividends yield (FY) -
Basic EPS (TTM) -0.38

Analyzing Revenue: Products, Geography and Growth

Revenue by Products

Product revenue - Year on Year

Revenue by Geography

Geography revenue - Year on Year

Earnings Date

Report Date -
When -
Estimate -
Actual -

Profitability

Profit Margin -1.73%
Operating Margin (TTM) -0.13%

Management Effectiveness

Return on Assets (TTM) 2.59%
Return on Equity (TTM) -14.09%

Valuation

Trailing PE -
Forward PE 14.29
Enterprise Value 46181291
Price to Sales(TTM) 0.16
Enterprise Value 46181291
Price to Sales(TTM) 0.16
Enterprise Value to Revenue 0.26
Enterprise Value to EBITDA 4.59
Shares Outstanding 7414790
Shares Floating 2446660
Shares Outstanding 7414790
Shares Floating 2446660
Percent Insiders 47.48
Percent Institutions 31.88

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Harte Hanks Inc

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Company Overview

overview logo History and Background

Harte Hanks Inc. was founded in 1923 as the San Angelo Standard-Times. Over time, it evolved from a media company to a marketing services provider, undergoing significant transformations in its business model.

business area logo Core Business Areas

  • Customer Care: Harte Hanks provides customer care solutions, including contact center services, technical support, and customer experience management.
  • Fulfillment: Harte Hanks offers fulfillment services, encompassing warehousing, order processing, and shipping solutions.
  • Marketing Solutions: Harte Hanks delivers marketing services such as data analytics, digital marketing, and marketing automation.

leadership logo Leadership and Structure

The company has a leadership team led by a CEO, CFO, and other executives. The organizational structure includes various departments and divisions focusing on different aspects of marketing services.

Top Products and Market Share

overview logo Key Offerings

  • Product Name 1: Customer Care Solutions: Provides outsourced contact center and customer support services. Market share is difficult to ascertain precisely, but estimated within the top 20 providers. Competitors: Teleperformance (TEP.PA), Concentrix (CNXC)
  • Product Name 2: Fulfillment Services: Includes warehousing, order processing, and shipping solutions. The company's market share is relatively smaller than the big players. Competitors: FedEx (FDX), UPS (UPS), XPO Logistics (XPO)
  • Product Name 3: Marketing Solutions: Data analytics, digital marketing, and marketing automation, focusing on business to business. Small market share in the highly fragmented marketing solutions market. Competitors: Accenture (ACN), IBM (IBM), Wipro (WIT)

Market Dynamics

industry overview logo Industry Overview

The marketing services industry is competitive, with trends like digitization, data-driven marketing, and personalized customer experiences shaping the landscape.

Positioning

Harte Hanks positions itself as a provider of end-to-end marketing solutions, focusing on leveraging data and technology to improve customer engagement. Relatively niche.

Total Addressable Market (TAM)

The total addressable market (TAM) for the companyu2019s offerings spans billions of dollars. With the total TAM for marketing solutions expected to reach $800 Billion by 2026. Harte Hanks is only capturing a small piece of that TAM.

Upturn SWOT Analysis

Strengths

  • End-to-end marketing solutions
  • Data analytics capabilities
  • Customer care experience
  • Long-standing customer relationships

Weaknesses

  • Smaller scale compared to larger competitors
  • Lower market share
  • Limited brand recognition compared to larger players
  • Financial Instability

Opportunities

  • Expanding digital marketing services
  • Leveraging AI and machine learning
  • Acquiring new customers through strategic partnerships
  • Further penetrate existing customer base through cross-selling

Threats

  • Increased competition from larger players
  • Economic downturn affecting marketing budgets
  • Data privacy regulations
  • Rapid technological changes

Competitors and Market Share

competitor logo Key Competitors

  • CNXC
  • TP
  • ACN
  • IBM

Competitive Landscape

Harte Hanks operates in a competitive landscape dominated by larger players with broader market reach and more diverse service offerings. Harte Hanks needs to be a niche specialist to survive and thrive.

Growth Trajectory and Initiatives

Historical Growth: Historical growth information is not readily available.

Future Projections: Future growth projections are not available. Analyst consensus is not available.

Recent Initiatives: Harte Hanks is focused on improving customer care capabilities, expanding its data analytics offerings, and driving operational efficiency.

Summary

Harte Hanks is a smaller player in the marketing services industry, operating in highly competitive environments. The Company has some key strengths in end to end marketing solutions, but struggles with low market share. Harte Hanks needs to ensure it is keeping up with technology advancements to stay competitive. The company needs to show a positive trend for Revenue and Net Income to prove it is successful. Data privacy regulations could prove to be a risk for future growth.

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About Harte Hanks Inc

Exchange NASDAQ
Headquaters Chelmsford, MA, United States
IPO Launch date 1993-11-04
CEO -
Sector Industrials
Industry Conglomerates
Full time employees 2000
Full time employees 2000

Harte Hanks, Inc. operates as a customer experience company in the United States and internationally. It operates through three segments: Marketing Services, Customer Care, and Fulfillment and Logistics. It offers data and analytics, including audience identification, profiling, segmentation and prioritization, and predictive modeling and data strategy; research, an understanding of customers, category, competitors, and capabilities; strategy, which plans and executes omnichannel marketing, demand generation, and customer experience programs; creative and content, including creative concepts, messaging and content assets for print, broadcast, direct mail, website, app, display, social, mobile, search engine marketing, and voice; marketing technology, a website and app development, e-commerce development and enablement, database building and management, platform architecture creation, and marketing automation; digital and multi-channel marketing execution and advertising; demand generation and account based marketing; and managed marketing services. It also provides product, print-on-demand, and mail fulfillment services, including as printing on demand, managing product recalls, and distributing literature and promotional products; and third-party logistics and freight optimization services. In addition, the company offers inside sales outsourcing, which provides B2B enterprises, and small to midsized businesses with an outsourced sales service; lead generation services; and sales play development, as well as customer service outsourcing, customer care technology and artificial intelligence transformation, and self-service technology. It serves B2B, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, health insurance, consumer, travel, hospitality, streaming, entertainment, quick service restaurants, financial, fintech, automotive, and retail industries. The company was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.