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Market cap

4.6B

NYSE

Market data

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Current market quote for this ticker.

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E33.3

P25 14.6P50 20.6P75 30.4

Trailing P/E34.1

P25 17.1P50 27.2P75 47.6

ROE6.3

P25 -16.4P50 5.9P75 16.4

ROIC6.3

P25 -10.3P50 5.1P75 12.2

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Indicator catalog

All UNF market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

Available fields

279

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Currency

USD

Showing 279 of 279 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0000717954
Company name	UniFirst Corporation
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	904708104
Employees	16,000
Employees Change	2,000%
Employees Change Percent	14.29
Enterprise value	$4.5B
Exchange	NYSE
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Specialty Business Services
Isin	US9047081040
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$4.6B
Market cap category	Mid-Cap
Price	$252
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	154,315.5x
Sector	Industrials
Sic	7200
Symbol	UNF
Website	https://www.unifirst.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	2.97%
EV Earnings	33.1x
EV Sales Forward	1.75x
EV/EBIT	25.7x
EV/EBITDA	14.16x
EV/FCF	49.04x
EV/Sales	1.82x
FCF yield	2%
Forward P/E	33.34x
P/B ratio	2.09x
P/E ratio	34.13x
P/S ratio	1.85x
PE Ratio10 Y	26.46x
PE Ratio3 Y	26.44x
PE Ratio5 Y	27.86x
PS Forward	1.78x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	7.07%
EBITDA Margin	12.83%
FCF margin	3.71%
Gross margin	36.66%
Gross Profit	$905.1M
Gross Profit Growth	3.41%
Gross Profit Growth Q	5.16%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	8.07%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	7.47%
Net Income	$135.6M
Net Income Growth	-9.79%
Net Income Growth Q	-16.25%
Net Income Growth Years	3%
Net Income Growth3 Y	9.58%
Net Income Growth5 Y	1.26%
Pretax Margin	7.25%
Profit Margin	5.49%
Profit Per Employee	$8,472
Profitable Years	34
ROA	3.94
Roa5y	4.22
ROCE	6.96
ROE	6.27
Roe5y	6.62
ROIC	6.27
Roic5y	7.63

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	9.21%
Cagr15y	11.6%
Cagr1y	40.67%
Cagr20y	11.47%
Cagr3y	16.56%
Cagr5y	2.98%
Div CAGR10	25.42%
Div CAGR3	5.52%
Div CAGR5	7.64%
EPS Growth	-8.05
EPS Growth Q	-13.74
EPS Growth Years	3
EPS Growth3 Y	10.58
EPS Growth5 Y	2.01
FCF Growth	-43.95%
FCF Growth Q	-6.47%
FCF Growth5 Y	-10.18%
OCF Growth	-18.88%
OCF Growth Q	4.91%
OCF Growth10 Y	1.32%
OCF Growth3 Y	21.89%
OCF Growth5 Y	-1.54%
Revenue Growth	0.76x
Revenue Growth Q	3.37x
Revenue Growth Quarters	2x
Revenue Growth Years	5x
Revenue Growth3 Y	5.34x
Revenue Growth5 Y	6.87x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.89
Assets	$2.8B
Cash	$157.5M
Current Assets	$903.1M
Current Liabilities	$290.4M
Debt	$79.9M
Debt EBITDA	$0.23
Debt Equity	$0.04
Debt FCF	$0.87
Equity	$2.2B
Liabilities	$617.1M
Long Term Assets	$1.9B
Long Term Liabilities	$326.7M
Net Cash	$77.6M
Net Cash By Market Cap	$1.7
Net Cash Growth	-40.38%
Net Debt EBITDA	$-0.24
Net Debt Equity	$-0.04
Net Debt FCF	$-0.85
Tangible Book Value	$1.4B
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$78.4
WACC	7.61

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	3.11
Inventory Turnover	10.2
Net Working Capital	$475.4M
Quick ratio	1.55
Working Capital	$612.7M
Working Capital Turnover	$3.88

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	1.81%
Dividend Growth	4.71%
Dividend Growth Years	8%
Dividend per share	$1.46
Dividend Years	44
Dividend Yield	0.58%
Ex Div Date	2026-06-05
Last Dividend	$0.37
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	19.54%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	141.24%
1Y total return	40.64%
200-day SMA	200.6
3Y total return	58.38%
50-day SMA	257.5
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50over200
5Y total return	15.83%
All Time High	283.8
All Time High Change	-11.05%
All Time High Date	2026-03-11
All Time Low	3.22
All Time Low Change	7,741.26%
All Time Low Date	1985-07-03
ATR	4.64
Beta	0.63
Beta1y	0.32
Beta2y	0.5
Ch YTD	30.85
High	256.6
High52	283.8
High52 Date	2026-03-11
High52ch	-11.05%
Low	252.2
Low52	147.7
Low52 Date	2025-11-06
Low52ch	70.94%
Ma50ch	-1.99%
Premarket Change Percent	-0.86
Premarket Price	$254
Premarket Volume	1,096
Price vs 200-day SMA	25.82%
RSI	44.28
RSI Monthly	65.02
RSI Weekly	61.84
Sharpe ratio	1x
Sortino ratio	2.1
Total Return	2.39%
Tr YTD	31.03
Tr15y	418.74%
Tr1m	-0.91%
Tr1w	0.12%
Tr3m	25.53%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	3
Analyst Count Top	2
Analyst Price Target Top	$228
Analyst Ratings	Hold
Analyst Ratings Top	Sell
Earnings EPS Estimate	$1.21
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	-13.57
Earnings Revenue Estimate	614,851,230x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	2.1x
Operating Income	$174.6M
Operating Income Growth	-12.61
Operating Income Growth Q	-16.66
Operating Income Growth3 Y	9.48
Operating Income Growth5 Y	1.11
Operating margin	7.07
Price target	$238
Price Target Change	$-5.58
Price Target Change Top	$-9.87

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	13,038,672%
Float Percent	72.1%
Shares Insiders	9.21%
Shares Institutions	88.03%
Shares Out	18,082,958
Shares Qo Q	-0.25%
Shares Yo Y	-1.81%
Short Float	3.81%
Short Ratio	1.51
Short Shares	2.75

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$79.1M
Average Volume	195,062.1x
Bv Per Share	120.8
CAPEX	$-165.5M
Ch10y	130
Ch15y	389.9
Ch1m	-0.91
Ch1w	0.12
Ch1y	39.62
Ch20y	712.7
Ch3m	25.36
Ch3y	54.95
Ch5y	11.95
Ch6m	66.78
Change	-1.56%
Change From Open	-1.63
Close	256.4
Days Gap	0.07
Depreciation Amortization	142,265,000
Dollar Volume	68,567,176.5
Earnings Date	2026-04-01
Earnings Time	bmo
EBIT	$174.6M
EBITDA	$316.9M
EPS	$7.4
F Score	5
FCF	$91.5M
FCF EV Yield	2.04x
FCF Per Share	$5.06
Financing CF	-121,630,000
Fiscal Year End	August
Founded	1,936
Goodwill	669,996,000
Graham Number	141.75598
Graham Upside	-43.84
Income Tax	$43.6M
Investing CF	-179,371,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-04-01
Last Report Date	2026-02-28
Last Split Date	1994-01-20
Last Split Type	Forward
Last10k Filing Date	2025-10-29
Lynch Fair Value	$36.98
Lynch Upside	-85.35
Ma150	209.9
Ma150ch	20.25%
Ma20	257.7
Ma20ch	-2.07%
Net CF	-40,380,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-07-01
Open	256.6
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	49.88
P OCF Ratio	17.76
Payment Date	2026-06-26
Position In Range	4.98
Post Close	252.4
Postmarket Change Percent	-0.08
Postmarket Price	$252
Ppne	925,858,000
Pre Close	256.4
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$14.4
Ptbv Ratio	3.22
Relative Volume	1.39x
Revenue	2,469,048,000x
SBC By Revenue	0.5x
Share Based Comp	12,400,000
Tax By Revenue	1.76x
Tax Rate	24.32%
Tr20y	777.44%
Tr6m	67.36%
Us State	Massachusetts
Volume	271,650
Z Score	5.66

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Income

UNF dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+0.6%

$1.46 annual per share

Payout ratio

+19.5%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

+7.6%

8 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+2.4%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-06-05

Performance

UNF stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns UNF?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+88.0%

Float: +72.1% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+9.2%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

UNF momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

44.3

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

+25.8%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

0.63

Less volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

1.00

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

UNF vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
ADP	Automatic Data Processing Inc.	85.1B	19.9x	3.9x	55.3%	+8.1%	-28.5%	احتفاظ
BA	The Boeing Company	187.1B	95.1x	2.0x	-13.6%	+10.3%	+27.9%	بيع
CAT	Caterpillar Inc.	413.4B	44.7x	5.8x	16.5%	+10.5%	+183.2%	بيع

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