QuinStreet, Inc. (QNST)
Communications · NMS
Price as at 1 Oct 2026, 15:16 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
QuinStreet, Inc. trades at $14.82, which is 149% below the $36.92 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a valuation model is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 43 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 15.0 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
QNST earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 6 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About QuinStreet, Inc.
QuinStreet, Inc., an online performance marketing company, provides customer acquisition services for its clients in the United States and internationally. The company provides online marketing services, such as qualified clicks, leads, calls, applications, and customers through its websites or third-party publishers to financial and home services industries. It also develops the QuinStreet Rating Platform product for insurance agents and the CloudControlMedia that provides performance marketing agency and technology services to clients in financial services, education, and other markets. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Foster City, California.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
QNST passes 3 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
7 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$36.94M · 0.0% of book
- Israel Englander, MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC$13.59M · 0.0% of book
- D. E. Shaw, D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc.$8.59M · 0.0% of book
- Arrowstreet Capital, ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$5.08M · 0.0% of book
- Ken Griffin, CITADEL ADVISORS LLC$3.86M · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Politician trades in QNST
Trades in QNST disclosed by members of Congress and executive-branch officials, latest first:
- Donald J Trump · Executive branchSell · $15,001 - $50,000 · traded 15 May 2026 · disclosed 1 Jul 2026
A disclosure reports a value band, not an amount, and is due up to 45 days after the trade; some arrive later. Every filer we track, each with their own page, is on the Congress trading tracker.
QNST peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Advertising Agencies), then in the same sector.
- OMC Omnicom Group Inc.
- MGNI Magnite, Inc.
- CCO Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.
- NEXN Nexxen International Ltd.
- DFSLY Defeng Solife Holdings Limited
- WIMI WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc.
- XONI Xtreme One Entertainment, Inc.
- MF MindForge Inc.
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Common questions
Is QuinStreet, Inc. (QNST) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $36.92, QNST at $14.82 is 149% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own QNST?
7 of the institutions we track reported a position in QNST in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is QNST's P/E ratio?
QNST trades at 15.0 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Where does SteadyShares get its QNST data?
Fundamentals for QNST come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NMS; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 1 Oct 2026, 15:16 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 96/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.