Industrials
Live Price
Offline$261.00
+0.49% today
1Y Change
+39.73%
Window
Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 17, 2026
Coverage: 248 bars · Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 17, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
UniFirst Corporation (UNF) is a Industrials stock with a market cap of $4.61B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $261.00 and up 39.7% across the available one-year price window (Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 17, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +0.2%, EPS growth of +2.7%, a dividend yield of 0.6%. What stands out right now is revenue +0.2%, EPS +2.7%, free cash flow +4.8% with operating margin 6.8% and ROIC 5.1%. The dividend is present but secondary, with a yield around 0.6%. Valuation already assumes a fairly strong business story at P/E 32.4 and price/sales 1.9. Stock Foundry combines UNF price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Industrials peers on this page.
Benchmark Comparison
Compare this ticker against a broad index, growth benchmark, or sector ETF using a shared 1Y normalization window.
UNF
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Normalized return
SPY
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Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
UNF Max Drawdown
-21.21%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for UNF and SPY.
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$1.8B
-8.7% YoY
FY Net Income
$151.1M
+46.1% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$78.7M
+463.0% YoY
Revenue Growth
+0.2%
EPS Growth
+2.7%
Gross Margin
36.7%
Net Margin
5.5%
Income statement
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 2.4B | 2.4B | 2.2B | 2.0B | 1.8B |
| Gross Profit | 750M | 848M | 752M | 694M | 685M |
| Operating Income | 184M | 184M | 134M | 134M | 196M |
| EBITDA | 338M | 325M | 262M | 244M | 303M |
| Net Income | 148M | 145M | 104M | 103M | 151M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 204M | 162M | 79M | 376M | -43M |
| Total Assets | 2.8B | 2.7B | 2.6B | 2.4B | 2.4B |
| Total Liabilities | 609M | 588M | 566M | 512M | 508M |
| Shareholder Equity | 2.2B | 2.1B | 2.0B | 1.9B | 1.9B |
| Total Debt | 72M | 69M | 65M | 52M | 43M |
| Net Debt | -131M | -93M | -15M | -325M | 86M |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
212M
+73.1% YoY
Capital Expenditures
134M
+7.4% YoY
Free Cash Flow
79M
+463.0% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
36.7%
Operating Margin
6.8%
Net Margin
5.5%
ROE
6.2%
Debt / Equity
0.04x
Next Step
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