TaskUs

TASK on Nasdaq. TaskUs sells customer service, content moderation, and AI work to businesses. Market value $290m.

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Price checks use the past 12 months to June 2026. Quality checks use five annual reports, the latest for the year to December 2025.

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Cash yield
past 12 months to June 2026
16.3%very high

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.

Price to profit
past 12 months to June 2026
7.3×cheap

You pay 7.3 years of operating profit for the business. The average large US company costs around 18.

Return on capital
five annual reports to December 2025
13.0%five-year median

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

-0.1
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2021202220232024202512 monthsto Jun '26

Spare cash swings from quarter to quarter here: $121 million in the past 12 months, $74 million in the year to December 2025.

Revenue
$761m$960m$924m$995m$1.2bn
Operating margin
-7.1%8.7%10.3%9.3%11.9%
Debt to equity
0.630.590.600.520.40
Shares outstanding
0.09bn0.10bn0.10bn0.09bn0.09bn

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.
Sales by quarter
Sales by quarter
Quarter toAmount
September 2024$255m
December 2024$274m
March 2025$278m
June 2025$294m
September 2025$299m
December 2025$313m
March 2026$306m
June 2026$309m
Profit by quarter
Profit by quarter
Quarter toAmount
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.

Jun '25
Dec '25
Jun '26
Largest holders overall

From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.

Big holders and activists

6 investors own more than 5%.

  • Bryce Maddock
    Passive investor
    29.8%
    Since 30 September 2025
  • Jaspar Weir
    Passive investor
    29.4%
    Since 30 September 2025
  • Dalton Investments Inc.
    Passive investor
    11.8%+6.0 pts
    Since 31 July 2026
  • Think Investments LP
    Passive investor
    at least 9.6%−1.1 pts
    (filed with 1 related holder)
    Since 30 June 2026
  • at least 4.3%−2.0 pts
    (filed with 2 related holders)
    Since 6 August 2026
  • FMR LLC
    Passive investor
    at least 4.2%−8.5 pts
    (filed with 1 related holder)
    Since 28 February 2025
  • The Vanguard Group
    Passive investor
    Sold down below 5%
    Since 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 Jarrod
    Chief Customer Officer
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    2 April 2026
    Shares
    11,406
    Price
    $6.89
    Value
    $78,587
  • Johnson Jarrod
    Chief Customer Officer
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    1 April 2026
    Shares
    25,000
    Price
    $6.78
    Value
    $169,500
  • Johnson Jarrod
    Chief Customer Officer
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    15 December 2025
    Shares
    17,827
    Price
    $12.03
    Value
    $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 knowing

    One 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.
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  • Increased 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 happen
    We 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.

Read it in the annual report

The deep dive

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