Price
$8.36-3.69%Social Signal Score
Analyst Ratings
23 analystsRevenue
$191.66M+301.25%Analyst Estimates
Consensus estimates, not results. Via Financial Modeling Prep.
Company Profile
- CEO
- Hayden Brown
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Staffing & Employment Services
- Employees
- 630
- Beta
- 1.01
- Country
- US
- Piotroski score
- 6 / 9 (Middling)
- Altman Z-score
- 2.27
Financials
Revenue
$191.66M+301.3%Net Income
$25.40M+3611.3%EBITDA
$40.88M+2093.9%Free Cash Flow
$45.26M+963.7%EPS (diluted)
$0.20+847.9%Shares Outstanding (diluted)
129.96M+300.0%Operating Expenses
$115.69MCash & Debt
$614.24MReturn of Capital
$1.83MRevenue by Segment (annual)
$787.78MQuote
Valuation & Ratios
Returns & Efficiency
Revenue & Net Income (Annual)
| Fiscal Year | Revenue | Net Income | EPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $787.78M | $115.42M | $0.87 |
| 2024 | $769.33M | $215.59M | $1.61 |
| 2023 | $689.14M | $46.89M | $0.35 |
| 2022 | $618.32M | $-89.89M | $-0.69 |
| 2021 | $502.80M | $-56.24M | $-0.44 |
| 2020 | $373.63M | $-22.87M | $-0.19 |
| 2019 | $300.56M | $-16.66M | $-0.15 |
| 2018 | $253.35M | $-19.91M | $-0.19 |
| 2017 | $202.55M | $-4.12M | $-0.04 |
| 2016 | $164.44M | $-16.23M | $-0.50 |
Valuation
Project earnings forward and see what return today's price implies.
EPS was negative in at least one boundary year, so a compound growth rate can't be computed from it. Set your own assumption.
- EPS in 5 years
- $1.30
- Implied price
- $29.86
- Return from $8.05
- 30.0% a year
To earn 15.0% a year on these assumptions you'd need to buy at $14.85 — today's price is already 45.8% below that.
How sensitive is that answer?
Annual return across nearby assumptions. If the result is only attractive in one corner, that is the finding.
| growth \ P/E | 17 | 20 | 23 | 26 | 29 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -2.0% | 11.0% | 14.7% | 17.9% | 20.9% | 23.5% |
| 3.0% | 16.7% | 20.5% | 24.0% | 27.0% | 29.8% |
| 8.0% | 22.4% | 26.4% | 30.0% | 33.2% | 36.1% |
| 13.0% | 28.0% | 32.2% | 36.0% | 39.4% | 42.4% |
| 18.0% | 33.7% | 38.1% | 42.0% | 45.5% | 48.8% |
This is arithmetic on assumptions you chose, not a forecast or a recommendation. It ignores dividends, buybacks, share issuance and debt, and it assumes a company still earning money in 5 years. Change any input and the answer changes a lot — that sensitivity is the honest result, not a flaw in the model.
Signal Score (90d)
0-100.00%Social Signal Score
Mentions (9)
- Newsglobenewswire.com·28d ago·Negative
Upwork Inc. (UPWK) Shareholders Who Lost Money – Contact Law Offices of Howard G. Smith About Securities Fraud Investigation BENSALEM, Pa., Sept. 07, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith continues its investigation on behalf of Upwork Inc. (“Upwork” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: UPWK) investors concerning the Company's possible violations of federal securities laws.
View source ↗ - Newsglobenewswire.com·31d ago·Negative
Securities Fraud Investigation Into Upwork Inc. (UPWK) Continues – Shareholders Who Lost Money Urged To Contact The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz LOS ANGELES, Sept. 04, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz continues its investigation of Upwork Inc. (“Upwork” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: UPWK) on behalf of investors concerning the Company's possible violations of federal securities laws.
View source ↗ - Newsglobenewswire.com·40d ago·Negative
Upwork to Present at Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Upwork Inc. (Nasdaq: UPWK), the world's human and AI-powered work marketplace, today announced that senior management will participate in a fireside chat at The Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference in San Francisco, CA on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 at 3:05 p.m. PT/6:05 p.m. ET.
View source ↗ - Newsseekingalpha.com·54d ago·Neutral
Upwork: Earnings Selloff Is A Time To Buy, But AI Is A Real Threat Upwork faces significant AI-driven challenges, but its current low valuation offers a compelling risk-reward profile. UPWK trades at a non-GAAP PE of 6.64, with robust 77.5% gross margins and a 22% levered FCF margin, providing downside protection. Recent quarterly results were unexciting: revenue beat guidance but declined YoY; forward guidance was lowered, reflecting ongoing headwinds.
View source ↗ - Newsinvezz.com·55d ago·Negative
Upwork stock tumbles as weak guidance overshadows Q2 earnings beat Shares of Upwork were headed for their worst single-day decline in three months on Tuesday after the freelance marketplace issued weaker-than-expected guidance, overshadowing second-quarter results that topped revenue and earnings estimates. Upwork shares fell nearly 13% in trading.
View source ↗ - Newsseekingalpha.com·56d ago·Positive
Upwork Inc. (UPWK) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript Upwork Inc. (UPWK) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
View source ↗ - Newsmarketbeat.com·56d ago·Negative
Upwork Q2 Earnings Call Highlights Upwork NASDAQ: UPWK reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $191.7 million, at the high end of its guidance range, while adjusted EBITDA of $64.1 million exceeded the company's outlook. Management said disciplined cost management supported profitability as the company navigated accelerating AI-related automation, weaker Google search referrals and a subdued labor market.
View source ↗ - Newspymnts.com·56d ago·Negative
Upwork Navigates Cross-Currents as AI Reshapes Freelance Demand Upwork's second-quarter results, released after market close on Monday (Aug. 10) offered up a snapshot of which freelance jobs are surviving artificial intelligence (AI), which ones may not, and what businesses are willing to pay people to do instead. Earnings material from the company showed that low-complexity assignments are being automated faster than Upwork expected.
View source ↗ - Newsbenzinga.com·56d ago·Negative
Upwork Stock Crashes After Q2 Print — Here's Why Upwork Inc. (NASDAQ:UPWK) posted its second-quarter results after Monday's closing bell, beating analyst estimates but disappointing investors. Here's a look at the key figures from the quarter.
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Earnings
Mon, Nov 2(in 4 weeks)
Consensus estimate $0.32 per share
Typical surprise +19.7% (median, so one quarter with a near-zero estimate can't distort it)
- Mon, Aug 10$0.41 vs $0.34beat
- Thu, May 7$0.24 vs $0.25miss
- Mon, Feb 9$0.12 vs $0.23miss
- Mon, Nov 3$0.21 vs $0.25miss
- Wed, Aug 6$0.35 vs $0.26beat
- Mon, May 5$0.34 vs $0.25beat
Estimates and results for UPWK via Financial Modeling Prep. Beating consensus says the company cleared the bar analysts set, not that the business grew.
Insider trading
Open-market buys and sells by UPWK officers and directors.
- Bought
- —
- Sold
- $3.0m
0 trades
19 trades
- Mekhalfa Sabrinasold
- Kappus Anthony Raysold
- Gessert Ericasold
- Brown Haydensold
- Brown Haydensold
- Brown Haydensold
- Gessert Ericasold
- Kappus Anthony Raysold
81 further Form 4 entries are share awards, option exercises or shares withheld for tax. Those are compensation, not trades, so they are excluded above. Buying is the stronger signal: an insider spends their own money for one reason. Selling has many innocent explanations — tax, diversifying, a house — so it says far less than it appears to. Via SEC filings.
Congress trades
- Chuck Fleischmannhouse · TN03 · disclosed May 9, 2023 (29d later)Sell$1,001 - $15,000
Self-reported filings, amounts as brackets. Via Senate/House disclosures.