The Hackett Group Announces First Quarter 2026 Results

The Hackett Group Announces First Quarter 2026 Results MIAMI--( BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Hackett Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: HCKT), a leading Gen AI strategic consulting and digital transformation firm that enables Digital World Class® performance, today announced its financial results for the first quarter, which ended on March 27, 2026.

"Over the past two years, we have made disciplined, systematic investments to build a cohesive and highly differentiated AI foundation," stated Ted A. Fernandez, Chairman and CEO of The Hackett Group, Inc. "We believe that the increasing demand for AI, further supported by our expanded partner strategy and our internal transition to a suite of Gen AI‑enabled delivery platforms, provides a significant value creation opportunity for our organization. We are already seeing meaningful productivity gains and expanding scope on engagements leveraging our platforms."

Financial Highlights

Business Outlook for the Second Quarter of 2026

Based on the Company’s current outlook:

Conference Call and Webcast Details

Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

The Company provides adjusted earnings results (which excludes non-cash stock based compensation expense, stock price award program compensation expense, acquisition-related cash and non-cash stock based compensation expense, amortization expense, acquisition related costs and any one-time costs and includes a GAAP tax rate) as a complement to results provided in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). These non-GAAP results are provided to enhance the users' overall understanding of the Company's current financial performance and its prospects for the future. The Company believes the non-GAAP results provide useful information to both management and investors and by excluding certain expenses that it believes are not indicative of its core operating results. The non-GAAP measures are included to provide investors and management with an alternative method for assessing operating results in a manner that is focused on the performance of its ongoing primary operations and to provide a consistent basis for comparison between quarters. Further, these non-GAAP results are one of the primary indicators management uses for planning and forecasting. The presentation of this additional non-GAAP information should be considered in addition to, and not as a substitute for or superior to, any results prepared in accordance with GAAP. See the reconciliation of actual results titled “Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Measures” in the accompanying tables.

The Company believes that the presentation of non-GAAP financial information on a forward-looking basis, including the guidance contained in this release, provides important supplemental information to management and investors regarding its anticipated results of operations. The Company is unable to provide a reconciliation of GAAP measures to corresponding forward-looking non-GAAP measures without unreasonable effort due to the high variability and low visibility of most of the items that have been excluded from these non-GAAP measures. For example, non-cash stock-based compensation expense is impacted by the Company’s future hiring needs, the type and volume of equity awards necessary for such future hiring, and the price at which the Company’s stock will trade in those future periods. In addition, the provision or benefit for income taxes is impacted by non-recurring income tax adjustments, valuation allowance on deferred tax assets, and the income tax effect of non-GAAP exclusions. The effects of these reconciling items may be significant, as the items that are being excluded are difficult to predict.

About The Hackett Group®

The Hackett Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: HCKT) is a Gen AI strategic consulting and digital transformation firm that enables Digital World Class® performance. Using Hackett AI XPLR™, ZBrain™, XT™, AIXelerator™, AskHackett™, and Quantum Leap® platforms, the company’s experienced professionals and engineers help organizations realize the power of Gen AI from ideation through implementation to achieve quantifiable, breakthrough results with unprecedented speed, allowing it to be key architects of their Gen AI journey. The Company’s expertise is grounded in unparalleled best practices insights from enterprise performance benchmarks from the world’s leading businesses – including 97% of the Dow Jones Industrials, 90% of the Fortune 100, 68% of the DAX 40 and 53% of the FTSE 100. Visit us at www.thehackettgroup.com/.

Trademarks

The Hackett Group®, quadrant logo, Digital World Class® and Quantum Leap® are the registered marks of The Hackett Group®.

Cautionary Statement Regarding “Forward-Looking” Statements

This release contains “forward-looking” statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Statements including without limitation, words such as “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” seeks,” “estimates,” or other similar phrases or variations of such words or similar expressions indicating, present or future anticipated or expected occurrences or outcomes are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not statements of historical fact and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the Company’s actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from the results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Factors that could impact such forward-looking statements include, among others, changes in worldwide and U.S. economic conditions that impact business confidence and the demand for our products and services, our ability to transition our capabilities to support generative artificial intelligence (AI)-related consulting services and solutions, our ability to effectively integrate acquisitions, including the Leeway acquisition, into our operations, our ability to manage joint ventures and successfully cooperate with our joint venture partners, our ability to retain existing business, our ability to attract additional business, our ability to effectively market and sell our product offerings and other services, the timing of projects and the potential for contract cancellation by our customers, changes in expectations regarding the business consulting and information technology industries, our ability to attract and retain skilled employees, possible changes in collections of accounts receivable due to the bankruptcy or financial difficulties of our customers, risks of competition, price and margin trends, foreign currency fluctuations, the impact of the geopolitical conflict involving Russia and Ukraine and in the Middle East on our business and changes in general economic conditions, interest rates and our ability to obtain additional debt financing if needed as well as other risk detailed in The Hackett Group’s reports filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. The Hackett Group does not undertake any duty to update this release or any forward-looking statements contained herein.

2026

2025

67,843

76,231

954

1,634

68,797

77,865

38,505

48,380

954

1,634

39,459

50,014

18,446

23,448

1,956

59,861

73,462

8,936

4,403

(1,008

)

(202

)

7,928

4,201

3,647

1,058

4,281

3,143

0.17

0.11

25,166

27,587

0.17

0.11

25,258

28,385

2026

2025

6,068

18,197

70,284

59,505

5,316

6,175

81,668

83,877

25,163

24,011

356

358

2,869

3,252

90,187

90,659

2,151

2,484

1,996

1,806

204,390

206,447

4,749

6,295

24,340

28,824

13,216

12,317

1,168

1,259

43,473

48,769

14,966

12,537

78,836

75,818

1,103

1,223

138,378

138,347

66,012

68,100

204,390

206,447

2026

2025

36,370

42,642

20,097

22,325

16,273

20,317

7,200

7,531

9,073

12,786

15,448

20,396

10,598

13,695

4,850

6,701

1,287

2,334

3,563

4,367

16,025

13,193

8,852

7,139

7,173

6,054

2,210

1,804

4,963

4,250

17,599

21,403

3,812

5,656

2,396

2,765

1,096

5,142

(64

)

308

(2,013

)

1,765

194

1,956

1,165

1,025

315

145

1,008

202

7,928

4,201

2026

2025

4,281

3,143

2,396

2,765

1,096

5,142

(64

)

308

(2,013

)

1,765

194

315

145

1,956

7,967

13,462

(685

)

1,856

8,652

11,606

0.17

0.11

0.34

0.41

25,258

28,385

2026

2025

36,775

39,083

43,357

405

468

715

36,370

38,615

42,642

15,685

14,269

21,085

237

266

689

15,448

14,003

20,396

16,337

22,399

13,423

312

197

230

16,025

22,202

13,193

68,797

75,751

77,865

954

931

1,634

67,843

74,820

76,231

1,247

1,301

1,332

1,535

1,588

1,618

(5,067

)

19,066

4,195

1,165

1,073

1,025

315

311

145

2,414

2,008

1,544

212

2,032

206

2,966

41,223

6,202

14.00

20.29

30.16

22,034

11,368

21,315

121

173

1,666

762

5,514

13.84

20.67

31.84