Unifirst Corporation

UNF Industrials Specialty Business Services

Unifirst Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended August 2025) was $2.4 billion, roughly unchanged from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to May 2026, revenue grew 3.87%, EPS fell 48.2% and free cash flow fell 21.7%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Dividend growth for ten consecutive years, revenue growth for five, operating cash flow growth for three.

263.00 1.83 −0.69%
Market cap
$4.6B
P/E
39.7×
Fwd P/E
39.4×
Dividend yield
0.56%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
5.66
Beneish M
−2.74
Dividend safety
90/100

Insider Decisions trades per month

Total sells 0.58
Totals in millions of $.
Dec 25 Mar 26 Jun 26 Sep 26
Buy — — — — — — — — — — — —
Sell 1 — — 2 — — — — — — — —
Insider Ownership 20.09%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Market Cap 4,600.00
Revenue 2,492.67
Net Income 115.79
Free Cash Flow 88.97
Net Debt (168.88)
Current Ratio 3.11 (at or above 1.5: strong)
Debt/Equity 0.00 (at or below 0.5: strong)
P/E ratio 39.73 (above 35: high)
Fwd P/E 39.40 (above 35: high)
P/S ratio 1.91
P/B ratio 2.16
Past 5Y EPS Growth 2.28%
This Y EPS Growth (9.90%) (below 0%: weak)
Next Y EPS Growth 8.65%
Next Y revenue growth 3.03%
Next 5Y EPS Growth 1.49%

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Valuation vs history

P/E against its own 10 years 93.62%
10-year low 10-year high
P/S against its own 10 years 66.13%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 75.49%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 78.29%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/FCF against its own 10 years 86.03%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Payout Ratio 0.23
Annual Dividend Rate 1.46
Annual Dividend Yield 0.56%
total individual payouts
2028 Powerpack
2027 Powerpack
2026 1.35
0.37
0.37
0.37
2025 1.42
0.35
0.35
0.35
0.37
2024 1.34
0.33
0.33
0.33
0.35
2023 1.26
0.31
0.31
0.31
0.33
2022 1.21
0.30
0.30
0.30
0.31
2021 1.05
0.25
0.25
0.25
0.30
2020 1.00
0.25
0.25
0.25
0.25
2019 0.59
0.11
0.11
0.11
0.25
2018 0.38
0.04
0.11
0.11
0.11
2017 0.19
0.04
0.04
0.04
0.04
0.04
2016 0.15
0.04
0.04
0.04
0.04
predictions special payouts not included in total or ratios

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 90 175 209 169
Receivables 279 279 285 296
Inventory 148 157 145 148
Other 248 238 228 237
840 916 925 920
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 93 93 95 90
ST’ Debt — — — —
Other — — — —
267 281 290 296

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales 5.26% 6.16% 6.73%
Cash Flow 2.72% 0.70% 34.27%
Earnings 1.78% 1.78% 12.76%
Book Value 5.73% 4.49% 4.22%

Revenue $m

Nov Feb May Aug Year
’26 621 623 634 — —
’25 605 602 611 614 2,432
’24 594 591 603 640 2,427
’23 542 543 577 572 2,233
’22 486 487 512 516 2,001
’21 447 450 464 465 1,826
’20 465 465 446 429 1,804
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Nov Feb May Aug Year
’26 15 74 51 — —
’25 58 70 68 100 297
’24 46 61 86 102 295
’23 28 36 79 73 216
’22 8 37 44 34 123
’21 53 75 60 25 212
’20 52 84 69 81 287
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Nov Feb May Aug Year
’26 (24) 35 21 — —
’25 25 38 27 56 146
’24 7 27 37 64 136
’23 (11) 1 30 25 44
’22 (23) 8 7 (11) (20)
’21 11 51 30 (12) 79
’20 24 51 40 56 170
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

EPS $

Nov Feb May Aug Year
’26 1.89 1.13 1.09 — —
’25 2.31 1.31 2.13 2.23 7.98
’24 2.26 1.09 2.03 2.39 7.77
’23 1.81 0.95 1.29 1.47 5.53
’22 1.77 0.97 1.33 1.39 5.46
’21 2.20 1.71 2.21 1.82 7.94
’20 2.52 1.82 1.12 1.66 7.13
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

3
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to August

Group Line 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Trend 2026e 2027e 2028e
Price, $
Price, $ Low 96.90 124.85 133.17 132.38 121.89 189.84 154.72 150.50 149.58 147.66

Analyst estimates 2026–2028

Powerpack
High 147.65 171.80 193.05 214.39 217.90 258.86 214.66 205.59 208.20 243.70
People
People Employees 13,000 14,000 14,000 14,000 14,000 14,000 14,000 16,000 16,000 16,000
Revenue/emp, $m 0.11 0.11 0.12 0.13 0.13 0.13 0.14 0.14 0.15 0.15
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 1,468 1,591 1,696 1,809 1,804 1,826 2,001 2,233 2,427 2,432
Gross margin, % 38.66 37.55 37.71 37.04 35.43 37.51 34.70 33.66 34.92 36.59
EBT 203 115 187 238 178 197 134 139 189 195
EBT margin, % 13.85 7.24 11.04 13.15 9.86 10.78 6.71 6.22 7.80 8.03
Net income 125 70 164 179 136 151 103 104 145 148
Depreciation 82 89 97 103 105 106 109 121 141 140
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 73.18 78.89 85.63 94.82 95.36 96.73 106.29 119.49 130.07 131.33
Earnings 6.17 3.63 8.66 9.77 7.46 8.32 5.71 5.77 8.11 8.33
Cash flow 10.35 10.82 11.61 14.79 15.15 11.24 6.52 11.55 15.82 16.03
Capex (4.90) (5.34) (5.60) (6.26) (6.15) (7.05) (7.56) (9.17) (8.53) (8.16)
Free cash flow 5.45 5.48 6.01 8.53 9.00 4.20 (1.04) 2.37 7.29 7.87
Book value 68.03 72.05 73.95 86.01 92.03 99.20 101.78 107.23 112.98 117.11
Shares, m 20 20 20 19 19 19 19 19 19 19
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 20.00 39.45 21.46 19.78 25.82 27.50 31.51 30.58 22.94 21.14
P/S 1.75 1.82 2.16 2.04 2.02 2.37 1.70 1.47 1.43 1.34
P/B 1.89 1.99 2.50 2.25 2.09 2.31 1.77 1.64 1.65 1.50
EV/Sales 1.51 1.60 2.01 1.83 1.76 2.09 1.51 1.44 1.36 1.26
EV/FCF 20.28 23.08 28.59 20.33 18.65 48.16 (153.81) 72.39 24.27 20.95
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 208 218 230 282 287 212 123 216 295 297
Capex (98) (108) (111) (119) (116) (133) (142) (171) (159) (151)
Free cash flow 109 111 119 163 170 79 (20) 44 136 146
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital 625 636 586 724 759 849 820 573 634 634
Total debt — — — — 42 43 52 65 — —
Net debt (364) (350) (271) (385) (475) (513) (376) (90) (175) (209)
Shareholders’ equity 1,365 1,453 1,465 1,641 1,741 1,873 1,916 2,004 2,109 2,169
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA 7.73 3.99 8.95 9.21 6.39 6.60 4.30 4.15 5.52 5.42
ROIC 12.56 6.25 9.54 11.55 8.53 9.00 5.45 4.36 5.93 5.88
ROE 9.59 4.98 11.23 11.53 8.03 8.36 5.46 5.29 7.07 6.93
Negative figures in brackets.

All 10 years →

Fiscal years to Aug 2025 · latest quarter May 2026

Charts ten years each

Unifirst Corporation vs peers in Specialty Business Services (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

Company Market cap P/E Fwd P/E Revenue growth (Q) EPS growth (Q) FCF growth (Q) Gross margin (Q) EBIT margin (Q) Compare
RTO Rentokil Initial PLC $10.5B 61.8× 29.4× +66.96% (above 0%: growing) +6.36% (above 0%: growing) +7.92% (above 0%: growing) 13.59% 0.00% Compare
DLB Dolby Laboratories $5.7B 25.2× 16.5× −3.34% (below 0%: shrinking) −37.50% (below 0%: shrinking) +157.37% (above 0%: growing) 86.78% 11.25% Compare
AMTM Amentum Holdings, Inc. $4.7B 23.5× 21.9× −1.99% (below 0%: shrinking) +575.00% (above 0%: growing) +35.00% (above 0%: growing) 10.32% 4.93% Compare
UNF Unifirst Corporation $4.6B 39.7× 39.4× +3.87% (above 0%: growing) −48.20% (below 0%: shrinking) −21.68% (below 0%: shrinking) 37.00% 3.63%
AZZ AZZ Inc. $3.9B 23.2× 22.1× +16.68% (above 0%: growing) −34.39% (below 0%: shrinking) +115.52% (above 0%: growing) 25.08% 17.21% Compare
FA First Advantage Corporation $3.5B 132× 67.8× +14.88% (above 0%: growing) +5,455.56% (above 0%: growing) +120.17% (above 0%: growing) 45.46% 12.71% Compare
MMS Maximus, Inc. $3.2B 9.0× 8.1× −5.15% (below 0%: shrinking) +4.81% (above 0%: growing) +30.90% (above 0%: growing) 27.27% 12.62% Compare
CBZ CBIZ, Inc. $3.0B 25.6× 12.1× −0.19% (below 0%: shrinking) −53.03% (below 0%: shrinking) +32.13% (above 0%: growing) 10.62% 4.99% Compare
ABM ABM Industries Incorporated $3.0B 18.4× 12.2× +4.19% (above 0%: growing) +25.37% (above 0%: growing) −13.91% (below 0%: shrinking) 12.35% 3.95% Compare
Median of peers $3.7B 24.4× 19.2× +2.00% +5.59% +33.57% 19.34% 8.12%

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Unifirst Corporation (UNF) key facts

  • Strength: Net income was $148.3 million, or $8.33 per share (basic), a net margin of 6.10%.
  • Unifirst Corporation (UNF) is a Specialty Business Services company in the Industrials sector, listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
  • Unifirst Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended August 2025) was $2.4 billion, roughly unchanged from fiscal 2024.
  • As of October 16, 2026, UNF traded at $263.00, a market capitalization of $4.6 billion.
  • At that price the stock trades at 39.7× trailing-twelve-month earnings and 1.9× sales; its P/E is higher than 94% of its own readings over the past ten years.
  • Unifirst Corporation pays an annual dividend of $1.46 per share, a yield of 0.56%, with a payout ratio of 23.0%.
  • Return on equity was 6.93% and debt-to-equity 0.00.
  • Its Piotroski F-score is 6 out of 9 and its Altman Z-score is 5.66 (safe zone) for fiscal 2025.

Source: company filings (standardised) and stockrow calculations.

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