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Cintas $CTAS

🫧 Edgar looked up Cintas Corporation ($CTAS). Last filing: DEF 14A, 2026-09-15. 11 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months.

🔖 Exposure: revenue $11.3B (FY2026), total debt $2.4B. Experience: revenue up 8.9% on the year, up 9.4% a year over 4 years; operating margin 23.1%, up from 22.8%. Soundness: equity 48.8% of assets, return on equity 38.9%, payout 35.1% of profit, dividend per share up 3 years running. Credibility: four or more audited years, reasonable weight. Range: 80% of past cases like this landed between $9.7B and $13.9B next year (method v3, set from 1,471 SEC company-years; on a year the method never saw, 83% landed inside). A range, not a forecast. Against peers (14 filers, $50M+ revenue, its industry group): operating margin 23.1% against a 6.1% median; growth 8.9% against 3.4%.

Cintas Corporation against its own record and its peers
Operating marginPeer median 6.1%23.1%Revenue, on the yearPeer median 3.4%8.9%Equity of assetsPeer median 39.3%48.8%Return on equityPeer median 8.9%38.9%Payout of profitPeer median 55.2%35.1%Gold tick: the median of 9–15 peers with $50M+ revenue in men's & boys' furnishgs, work clothg, & allied garments
Handed back now, or kept to compound
Of each dollar of profit35.1% paid out64.9% keptHanded back per share$1.8up 3 years runningGrowth its own profit can fund25.3%retained x return on equityRevenue growth it managed8.9%last year, for comparison

Gold is paid out to shareholders; navy is kept in the business. Retained profit times return on equity is the pace a company can fund from itself. Facts from the filings, not a recommendation.

The figures, as filed

Fiscal year end2026-05-31
Revenue$11.3B
Revenue, on the year8.9%
Revenue, a year over the record9.4%
Operating margin23.1%
Operating margin, prior year22.8%
Net margin17.8%
Research and developmentnot filed separately
Free cash flow$1.9B
Cash$289M
Total debt$2.4B
Equity of assets48.8%
Return on equity38.9%
Payout of profit35.1%
Dividend per share$1.8 · up 3 years running
Audited years read5

Peers: the median of 14 filers with $50M+ revenue in men's & boys' furnishgs, work clothg, & allied garments.

Recent filings

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