Cintas Financial Ratios
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Cintas ratio analysis
Cintas earned a net margin of 17.8% in FY 2026, up from 17.5% a year earlier. Gross margin was 50.7% compared with a median of 46.2% over the prior 9 years. Return on equity reached 38.9%, meaning Cintas generated 0.39 dollars of profit for every dollar of shareholders' equity.
Debt-to-equity stood at 0.47 versus 0.52 the year before, and the current ratio was 1.43. At the end of FY 2026, CTAS traded at 34.9 times earnings; across the 10 fiscal years shown, its year-end P/E ranged from 6.1 to 51.5, with a median of 8.5. Valuation ratios use the closing share price on each fiscal year-end date and diluted shares from the income statement; profitability and leverage ratios use reported annual figures. Current valuation multiples are on the statistics page.
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Cintas financial ratios (annual)
| Ratio | FY 2026 | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 | FY 2019 | FY 2018 | FY 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio (at fiscal year end) | 34.88 | 51.48 | 44.72 | 37.04 | 8.50 | 8.60 | 7.64 | 6.94 | 6.10 | 7.32 |
| Price / sales | 6.10 | 8.84 | 7.18 | 5.55 | 1.30 | 1.30 | 0.91 | 0.85 | 0.76 | 0.63 |
| Price / book | 13.37 | 19.51 | 15.97 | 12.67 | 3.09 | 2.50 | 1.99 | 1.96 | 1.63 | 1.46 |
| Gross margin | 50.7% | 50.0% | 48.8% | 47.3% | 46.2% | 46.6% | 45.6% | 45.4% | 44.9% | 44.7% |
| Operating margin | 23.1% | 22.8% | 21.6% | 20.4% | 20.2% | 19.5% | 16.4% | 16.4% | 14.7% | 14.5% |
| Net margin | 17.8% | 17.5% | 16.4% | 15.3% | 15.7% | 15.6% | 12.4% | 12.8% | 13.0% | 9.0% |
| Free cash flow margin | 16.7% | 17.0% | 17.3% | 14.2% | 16.5% | 17.1% | 15.0% | 11.5% | 10.7% | 9.2% |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 38.9% | 38.7% | 36.4% | 34.9% | 37.4% | 30.1% | 27.1% | 29.5% | 27.9% | 20.9% |
| Return on assets (ROA) | 19.0% | 18.4% | 17.1% | 15.8% | 15.2% | 13.5% | 11.4% | 11.9% | 12.1% | 7.0% |
| Debt / equity | 0.47 | 0.52 | 0.57 | 0.64 | 0.85 | 0.69 | 0.79 | 1.05 | 0.84 | 1.36 |
| Current ratio | 1.43 | 2.09 | 1.74 | 2.39 | 1.84 | 1.47 | 2.61 | 1.98 | 2.55 | 1.73 |
| Revenue growth | 8.9% | 7.7% | 8.9% | 12.2% | 10.4% | 0.4% | 2.8% | 6.4% | 21.7% | 11.0% |
| EPS growth | 11.6% | 16.1% | 16.6% | -72.1% | 13.8% | 26.3% | 1.5% | 5.7% | 72.6% | -29.5% |