Is it safe?
Can CTAS take a bad year?
Cintas carries $2.47B of net debt at 0.89× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$2.47B
Net debt · as at Q3 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.89×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.88× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 11.73
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 24.2×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ3 2026
- $2.66B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $183M
- Net debt
- $2.47B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $2.77B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $2.53B
- Debt / equity
- 0.56×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.96×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 24%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −48%
- Below its 52-week high
- −8.2%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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