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Cintas Corporation

CTAS Industrials Specialty Business Services

Cintas Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2026 (year ended May 2026) was $11.3 billion, up 8.94% from fiscal 2025.

Revenue
+10.9%
EPS
+12.5%
Free cash flow
+48.7%
Total debt
+0.13%

Quarter to August 2026, against a year earlier

229.07 5.33 +2.38%
Market cap
$88.8B
P/E
43.7×
Fwd P/E
39.9×
Dividend yield
1.07%
F-score
8/9
Altman Z
11.41
Beneish M
−2.52
Dividend safety
85/100
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Cintas Corporation (CTAS) valuation and DCF model

What the price implies · reverse DCF

At $229.07 the price implies free cash flow after share-based pay growing 17.8% a year for ten years.

Free cash flow after share-based pay grew 23.4% a year over the last ten years, 9.8% over the last five. The price asks for close to its ten-year rate. The industry’s median company is priced for 14.5%.

In May 2017 the price assumed 18.4% a year; Cintas Corporation went on to grow free cash flow after share-based pay 17.8% a year to FY2026.

Price implies
17.8%
Last 5 years, reported
9.8%
Last 10 years, reported
23.4%
Industry median implies
14.5%

The headline discounts the last twelve months’ free cash flow after share-based pay at 9.0% for ten years and grows it 2.5% a year after that, the same for every company, so the figure compares across the market (how a reverse DCF works).

The other way round · DCF
The price needs
17.8% a year for ten years
$229.07
today’s price
Its base case
23.4% a year for five years, then 14.0%
$252.25
10.1% above today’s price

Both are growth in free cash flow after share-based pay, discounted at 9.0%, with 2.5% a year after year ten.

Base case on its own ten-year record Cintas Corporation’s own growth, carried forward

Its assumptions

Powerpack lets you start from a scenario and type over any of them.

The base case’s inputs, which Powerpack lets you change
1 · Cash flow to equity
the four quarters to August 2026, from the 10-Q and 10-K filings, before share-based pay

Yearly growth in cash flow. It usually slows as the company matures.

Today’s price implies free cash flow after share-based pay growing 17.8% a year for ten years.

2 · Rates

Cost of equity is the yearly return shareholders require, typically 8–11%. Terminal growth is growth forever after year 10, usually near long-run inflation, 2–3%.

3 · Per share

Diluted shares outstanding. Net debt, under Advanced inputs, is taken off before dividing.

Advanced inputs
Free cash flow Revenue and margin
negative is net cash
new shares the cash flow does not pay for

Against Cintas Corporation’s own cost of capital: risk-free 4.3% + beta 0.85 × equity premium 4.5% = 8.1% cost of equity; weighted, 8.1%.

Use 8.1%
Equity value $102.26b ▲ above market cap $92.87b
Base case value per share $252.25 equity value ÷ 405.41m shares
Current price $229.07 market price per share
Above today’s price 10.1% upside at the base case’s assumptions

How we got there$34.37b 10 years of cash to equity+$70.08b terminal value−$2.19b net debt=$102.26b equity value÷405.41m shares=$252.25 per share

Valuation against its own history

Today’s multiple against its 5- and 10-year averages and the industry median (Specialty Business Services).

Multiple Current 5Y avg 10Y avg vs 10Y avg Industry median vs industry 10Y range
P/E 43.73× 41.79× 35.62× 23% above 25.69× 70% above
P/FCF 44.06× 42.42× 35.50× 24% above 16.50× 167% above
P/B 17.21× 15.73× 12.34× 39% above 2.31× 644% above
EV/EBITDA 28.55× 27.05× 23.33× 22% above 11.75× 143% above
EV/Sales 7.94× 7.30× 5.88× 35% above 1.57× 406% above
P/E P/FCF P/B EV/EBITDA EV/Sales
25.50×33.39×41.29×49.18×10Y avg 35.62×2018201920202021202220232024202520262026

CTAS trades at 43.73× P/E, against a 10-year average of 35.62× (range 23.42×–50.60×). That is dearer than 78% of the last 9 year-end readings; re-rating to the average implies $186.59 per share.

Every growth rate on this page is the business’s — its cash flow, FFO or dividend — never its share price’s. A discounted-cash-flow model is only as good as its assumptions. Figures from the 10-K and 10-Q filings. Not investment advice.