Huron Consulting screens as deeply undervalued on growth-adjusted metrics with a four-quarter beat streak and 46% upside to the analyst target, but a confirmed price downtrend and elevated leverage have blocked the near-term entry — the setup rewards patience while technical repair unfolds.
Thesis pillars
- Compelling Valuation Gap→Stable
- Consistent Earnings Outperformance→Stable
- Confirmed Price Downtrend→Stable
- +1 more pillar — see the Why tab for full reasoning
Huron Consulting Group Inc. (HURN) Stock Analysis
Recovery setup · Inst Constrain edge
Industrials · Consulting Services
Sell if holding. Momentum 3.5/10 is below the 5.0 floor at $97.16 — engine's falling-knife protection flags exit rather than catching a breakdown. Specifics: Leverage penalty (D/E 2.2): -1.5; Negative momentum.
Huron Consulting Group provides professional services across Healthcare, Education, and Commercial segments from its Chicago headquarters, with global offices including approximately 3,500 employees in India. In 2025, the company served over 2,000 clients with approximately... Read more
Sell if holding. Momentum 3.5/10 is below the 5.0 floor at $97.16 — engine's falling-knife protection flags exit rather than catching a breakdown. Specifics: Leverage penalty (D/E 2.2): -1.5; Negative momentum. Chart setup: Death cross but MACD improving, RSI 42. Score 6.2/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 7/9 gates (favorable risk/reward ratio, clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news events none recent, earnings proximity 33d clear, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on weak momentum and death cross (50MA < 200MA). Suitability: speculative.
About Huron Consulting Group Inc.
About Huron Consulting Group Inc.
Huron Consulting Group derived 50% of 2025 consolidated revenues from Healthcare, 30% from Education, and 20% from Commercial segments, serving over 2,000 clients globally with 8,610 full-time professionals. The company's workforce grew from 249 employees at founding in 2002 to approximately 8,610 by December 31, 2025, with roughly 3,500 based in India. The 10 largest clients accounted for approximately 19% of consolidated revenues.
Huron earns fees through two delivery modes — Consulting and Managed Services (management consulting, outsourcing, and revenue cycle management) and Digital (technology implementation, analytics, and software products) — across its three industry segments. In Healthcare, the company serves hospitals, health systems, and academic medical centers on revenue cycle, EHR and ERP implementations, and value-based care strategy; in Education, it serves colleges, universities, and research institutes on finance, operations, and research administration. The company's proprietary Huron Research Suite is described in the 10-K as the leading software suite designed to facilitate and improve research administration service delivery and compliance. In 2025, Huron expanded its Commercial segment through acquisitions including Treliant (financial services consulting) and Wilson Perumal and Company (operations strategy). Competition comes from general management consulting firms, the consulting practices of major accounting firms, and consulting divisions of technology partners including Salesforce, Workday, and Oracle.
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Huron's revenue model lacks the durability of long-term contracted backlog: most client contracts run 12 months or less and may be terminated with little or no notice and without penalty, a structure the 10-K identifies explicitly as a source of revenue unpredictability. Declining Healthcare or Education demand — triggered by changes in Medicare or Medicaid reimbursements, reductions in federal research grant spending, or executive actions affecting those industries — could manifest rapidly in reported revenues rather than being buffered by multi-year commitments. The company's approximately 3,500 India-based employees additionally expose operating costs to Indian rupee appreciation against the dollar.
See also: Industrials · Consulting Services
From Huron Consulting Group Inc.'s most recent 10-K filing, extracted June 10, 2026.
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updated 2026-07-06Recent Developments — Huron Consulting Group Inc.
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- NEWS Q1 Earnings Outperformers: Huron (NASDAQ:HURN) And The Rest Of The Business Process Outsourcing & Consulting Stocks - Ya — Yahoo Finance positive
- NEWS Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ:HURN) Sets New 1-Year Low - Here's What Happened - MarketBeat — MarketBeat negative
- NEWS 3 Reasons Why Growth Investors Shouldn't Overlook Huron Consulting (HURN) - Yahoo Finance — Yahoo Finance positive
- NEWS Huron Consulting Group (HURN) Projected to Post Quarterly Earnings on Tuesday - MarketBeat — MarketBeat neutral
- NEWS Huron Consulting (HURN) Expected to Beat Earnings Estimates: Should You Buy? - Yahoo Finance — Yahoo Finance positive
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- MEDIUMProductHealthcare segment50%10-K Item 1: 'we derived 50%, 30% and 20% of our consolidated revenues before reimbursable expenses from our Healthcare, Education and Commercial operating segments, respectively'
- LOWCustomertop-10 clients19%10-K Item 1: 'our 10 largest clients accounted for approximately 19% of our consolidated revenues'
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Rating Breakdown
1 floor-breaker·1 ceiling hit
Price action weak — below key moving averages, no momentum carry. Needs a base before trend-continuation setups apply.static
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Sell if holding. Momentum 3.5/10 is below the 5.0 floor at $97.16 — engine's falling-knife protection flags exit rather than catching a breakdown. Specifics: Leverage penalty (D/E 2.2): -1.5; Negative momentum. Chart setup: Death cross but MACD improving, RSI 42. Prior stop was $90.36. Score 6.2/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $156.61 (+61.2% upside). Prior stop was $90.36. Stop-loss: $90.36.
Leverage penalty (D/E 2.2): -1.5; Negative momentum; Below 200-MA, MA slope -3.4%/30d (confirmed downtrend).
Huron Consulting Group Inc. trades at a P/E of 16.6 (forward 9.5). TrendMatrix value score: 8.7/10. Verdict: Sell.
11 analysts cover HURN with a consensus score of 4.4/5. Average price target: $184.
What does Huron Consulting Group Inc. do?Huron Consulting Group provides professional services across Healthcare, Education, and Commercial segments from its...
Huron Consulting Group provides professional services across Healthcare, Education, and Commercial segments from its Chicago headquarters, with global offices including approximately 3,500 employees in India. In 2025, the company served over 2,000 clients with approximately 8,610 full-time professionals, deriving 50% of revenues from Healthcare and 30% from Education.