Is the price fair?
What CTAS's price assumes
Cintas trades at 43.4× earnings against 34.4× for the median Specialty Business Services name, more expensive than its own group.
43.4
Trailing P/E · Specialty Business Services median 34.4 · 1.26× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 7.36
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 2.6%
Free cash flow yield · Specialty Business Services median 5.0%
- Growth the price implies
- +14%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +14% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +11% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 16.9
- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 33.0
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 7.57
- Industrials median P/E346 names
- 29.9
- Specialty Business Services median P/E21 names
- 34.4
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $1.79B
- Market capitalisation
- $68.4B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +8.6%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +11%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| What its own history would imply | not meaningful, 44.8× today against a 8.39× median |
| 52-week range | $163.11 – $224.14 |
| Today | $205.73 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Specialty Business Services
Ranks #5 of 18 by Smart Score