TaskUs
TASK on Nasdaq. TaskUs sells customer service, content moderation, and AI work to businesses. Market value $290m.
Price checks use the past 12 months to June 2026. Quality checks use five annual reports, the latest for the year to December 2025.
Should I look at this?
Worth a closer look
Why it could be worth it
What to watch out for
Nothing big in our quick check. See what could go wrong below.
This is not advice. Check the numbers below.
For every $100 of what the whole company costs, it produced $16.28 of spare cash in the past 12 months. A savings account pays about $4.
You pay 7.3 years of operating profit for the business. The average large US company costs around 18.
Each dollar kept in the business earns 13 cents a year. Above 10 is good.
Quality score: 85 of 100. Price score: 100 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.
$7.96 a share, 78% above its 1-year low
Over the past year the price has ranged from $4.47 to $17.32.
Pays no dividend
Prices from Tuesday’s close (6 October).
Five years of cash, in billions
Spare cash swings from quarter to quarter here: $121 million in the past 12 months, $74 million in the year to December 2025.
| Revenue | |||||
| Revenue | $761m | $960m | $924m | $995m | $1.2bn |
| Operating margin | |||||
| Operating margin | -7.1% | 8.7% | 10.3% | 9.3% | 11.9% |
| Debt to equity | |||||
| Debt to equity | 0.63 | 0.59 | 0.60 | 0.52 | 0.40 |
| Shares outstanding | |||||
| Shares outstanding | 0.09bn | 0.10bn | 0.10bn | 0.09bn | 0.09bn |
Health checks
- Free cash flow positive4 of 5 years
- Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Nothing unusual
- Financial strength (Piotroski)7 of 8 checks we could run
- Profit backed by cash (accruals)Yes
- Debt0.40× equity
- Revenue growth, five yearsStrong, 11.7% a year
- Buying back its own sharesRoughly flat
The quarter to June 2026
How the business did, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
- Sales: $309 million last quarter, up 5% on a year ago.
- Profit: $22 million, up 10% on a year ago.
- It keeps 12 cents of each $1 of sales as operating profit, up from 10 cents a year earlier.
- Spare cash over the past 12 months: $121 million, up from $48 million.
- About the same number of shares as a year ago.
- Debt is $312 million more than cash, up from $68 million a year ago.
- Sales grew on a year ago in each of the last 4 quarters.
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | $255m |
| December 2024 | $274m |
| March 2025 | $278m |
| June 2025 | $294m |
| September 2025 | $299m |
| December 2025 | $313m |
| March 2026 | $306m |
| June 2026 | $309m |
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | $13m |
| December 2024 | $9m |
| March 2025 | $21m |
| June 2025 | $20m |
| September 2025 | $31m |
| December 2025 | $30m |
| March 2026 | $24m |
| June 2026 | $22m |
From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.
Dates
- Next results (estimated)
- n/a
- Last annual report (10-K)
- 5 March 2026
- Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
- 5 November 2026
Who owns it
None of the long-term investors we follow own it. 105 funds in all.
Largest holders overall
- Blackstone$47m
- Think Investments LP$16mCut
- Saba Capital Management, L.P.$11mAdded
- Dalton Investments$10mAdded
- Storebrand Asset Management AS$5mAdded
- Hudson Bay Capital Management LP$4mAdded
- Vanguard Capital Management$4m
- Dimensional Fund Advisors LP$3m
- Millennium Management$2mNew
- Aberdeen Group$2mCut
From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.
Big holders and activists
6 investors own more than 5%.
- Bryce MaddockPassive investor29.8%Since 30 September 2025
- Jaspar WeirPassive investor29.4%Since 30 September 2025
- Dalton Investments Inc.Passive investor11.8%+6.0 ptsSince 31 July 2026
- Think Investments LPPassive investorat least 9.6%−1.1 pts(filed with 1 related holder)Since 30 June 2026
- Saba Capital Management, L.P.Passive investorat least 4.3%−2.0 pts(filed with 2 related holders)Since 6 August 2026
- FMR LLCPassive investorat least 4.2%−8.5 pts(filed with 1 related holder)Since 28 February 2025
- The Vanguard GroupPassive investorSold down below 5%Since 30 June 2025
| Holder | Stake | Since | |
|---|---|---|---|
Bryce Maddock Passive investor | 29.8% | 30 September 2025 | |
Jaspar Weir Passive investor | 29.4% | 30 September 2025 | |
Dalton Investments Inc. Passive investor | 11.8%+6.0 pts | 31 July 2026 | |
Think Investments LP Passive investor | at least 9.6%−1.1 pts (filed with 1 related holder) | 30 June 2026 | |
Saba Capital Management, L.P. Passive investor | at least 4.3%−2.0 pts (filed with 2 related holders) | 6 August 2026 | |
FMR LLC Passive investor | at least 4.2%−8.5 pts (filed with 1 related holder) | 28 February 2025 | |
The Vanguard Group Passive investor | Sold down below 5% | 30 June 2025 |
From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.
What insiders did
No insider bought shares on the open market in the last 12 months. 1 sold $462,546, $462,546 of it under preset trading plans.
- Johnson JarrodChief Customer OfficerSoldunder a preset trading plan
- Date
- 2 April 2026
- Shares
- 11,406
- Price
- $6.89
- Value
- $78,587
- Johnson JarrodChief Customer OfficerSoldunder a preset trading plan
- Date
- 1 April 2026
- Shares
- 25,000
- Price
- $6.78
- Value
- $169,500
- Johnson JarrodChief Customer OfficerSoldunder a preset trading plan
- Date
- 15 December 2025
- Shares
- 17,827
- Price
- $12.03
- Value
- $214,459
| Date | Who | Did | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 April 2026 | Johnson Jarrod Chief Customer Officer | Sold under a preset trading plan | 11,406 | $6.89 | $78,587 |
| 1 April 2026 | Johnson Jarrod Chief Customer Officer | Sold under a preset trading plan | 25,000 | $6.78 | $169,500 |
| 15 December 2025 | Johnson Jarrod Chief Customer Officer | Sold under a preset trading plan | 17,827 | $12.03 | $214,459 |
From Form 4 filings: insiders must report trades in their own company's shares within two days.
Warning signs in its filings
Problems the company itself reported to the SEC, in its own words.
None of the serious warning signs we check for were found. 1 thing worth knowing.
We look for five warning signs: doubt it can keep going, weak checks on its own accounts, a notice that its past accounts can't be relied on, a change of auditor, and one customer bringing in a big share of sales. We don't check lawsuits, investigations or debt yet.
We checked the auditor's report, internal controls, restatement notices, auditor changes and big customers in the 10-K filed 5 Mar 2026, plus the 10-Q filed 6 Aug 2026 and 6 later 8-Ks.
One big customer
Worth knowingOne customer brings in a big share of sales: 26% last year. Losing that customer would hurt.
“Our largest client, Meta, generated 26% of our revenue for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025.”
From the 10-K filed 5 March 2026, Item 1. Business. Read it in the filing
A 10-K is the yearly report every US company files with the SEC. An 8-K is a short notice of a big event.
What could go wrong
Cheap for a reason is the question the numbers cannot answer.
Whether the price already reflects the risks is what the deep dive is for.
What changed in the risks this year
Companies must list what could hurt them each year. These are the parts that changed since last year’s report.
We may acquire or enter into partnerships or other transactions with other companies in pursuit of growth, which may divert our management’s attention, result in dilution to our shareholders and consume resources that are necessary to sustain our business.
Negotiating potential strategic transactions can be time consuming, difficult and expensive, and our ability to complete these transactions may be subject to conditions or approvals that are beyond our control. Consequently, these transactions, even if entered into and announced, may not ultimately be consummated, and any such failed consummation could adversely affect our stock price, business, financial condition and results of operations. For example, in October 2025, as a result of failing to receive stockholder approval, we terminated an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated May 8, 2025, by and between us and Breeze Merger Corporation, which related to a proposed take private transaction of the Company by our Sponsor and out Co-Founders.
Read moreIncreased adoption and utilization of AI, including Generative AI and Agentic AI, by our clients and us, or our failure to appropriately incorporate Generative AI and Agentic AI into our operations, could adversely affect our business, reputation or financial results.
Could happenWe are actively investing in and integrating AI, including Generative AI and Agentic AI, into our business model, solutions, and services. These new and emerging technologies carry risks that could impact our business.
The deep dive
Everything above is arithmetic on public filings. The deep dive reads the last ten years of annual reports, the proxy statements, and the earnings calls, then argues the case the way Buffett, Klarman, and Hohn would, and checks every claim against the source.
- What the business is worth, as a range, and the margin of safety at today’s price
- Prices to start buying, buy, and buy hard
- The three things that would make this a mistake
- Every number footnoted to the filing it came from
Your first deep dive is free.
Not advice. Numbers on this page come from SEC filings and are updated each night; prices are updated again after the US market closes. The five-year figures are rounded.