UNFUniFirst Corporation
Is the price fair?
A demanding price: priced for +19% a year vs +5% a year delivered and at the top of its own P/E range.
Priced for ~19% a year FCF growth. The price demands more than its three-year revenue growth of 5% a year, priced for acceleration.
Expensive vs its own history: P/E 41.2 vs a 26.2 median over 40 quarters (+58% vs median).
Sector median 23.3× across 246 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What UNF's price assumes
UniFirst Corporation trades at 41.2× earnings against 25.9× for the median Specialty Business Services name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Specialty Business Services median 25.9 · 1.59× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 1.95
Price / sales · today's price, fiscal year to Aug 30, 2025
- Free cash flow yield
- 1.9%
Free cash flow yield · Specialty Business Services median 7.8%
- Growth the price implies
- +19%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +19% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +152% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, fiscal year to Aug 30, 2025
- 2.19
- EV / EBITtoday's price, fiscal year to Aug 30, 2025
- 24.6
- EV / salestoday's price, fiscal year to Aug 30, 2025
- 1.86
- Industrials median P/E440 names
- 26.5
- Specialty Business Services median P/E28 names
- 25.9
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $88M
- Market capitalisation
- $4.75B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +4.6%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +152%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $140.12 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $165.60 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $182.31 |
| 52-week range | $149.30 – $300.55 |
| Today | $260.84 |
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 #14 of 22 by RyuScore