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Cintas CTAS Free cash flow yield

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Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$2.8B+8.9%
Gross profit$1.4B+9.8%
Operating income$659.9M+8.2%
Net income$502.5M+8.4%
EPS (diluted)$1.24+9.7%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$183.2M-24.7%
Total debt$2.9B-7.1%
Total equity$4.8B+4.3%
Total assets$10.2B+6.5%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$621.5M+0.2%
CapEx$90.9M-9.0%
Free cash flow$530.6M+1.9%

Valuation

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Market cap$67.88B-3.9%
Enterprise value$70.62B-4.0%
P/E35×-4.7×
P/S6.2×-0.8×

Profitability

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Gross margin50.4%+0.9pp
Operating margin23%+0.2pp
Net margin17.6%0.0pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity41.3%+1.0pp
Debt / equity0.6×-0.1×
Current ratio+0.3×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Cintas’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Cintas’s 10-Q, filed April 7, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Cintas's free cash flow yield?
Cintas (CTAS) reported free cash flow yield of 2.2% in Q4 2025.
How has Cintas's free cash flow yield changed year-over-year?
Cintas's free cash flow yield increased by 3.1% year-over-year, from 2.2% to 2.2%.
What is the long-term trend for Cintas's free cash flow yield?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Cintas's free cash flow yield has grown at a -10.5% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 13% to 8.3%.
What does free cash flow yield mean?
The spendable cash the business throws off each year as a percentage of its market price.
How do you interpret free cash flow yield?
Higher yield can mean better value — you pay less for each dollar of cash generated. A useful sanity check against earnings-based multiples, which non-cash items can distort.
How does free cash flow yield compare across companies?
Comparable across cash-generative companies; less meaningful for firms in heavy-investment phases with temporarily negative FCF.