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Cintas CTAS Return on equity

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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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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 return on equity?
Cintas (CTAS) reported return on equity of 41.3% in Q4 2025.
How has Cintas's return on equity changed year-over-year?
Cintas's return on equity increased by 2.5% year-over-year, from 40.3% to 41.3%.
What is the long-term trend for Cintas's return on equity?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Cintas's return on equity has grown at a 8.7% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 116.3% to 162.4%.
What does return on equity mean?
How much profit the company earns on the money shareholders have invested.
How do you interpret return on equity?
Higher is better, but very high ROE can be manufactured by leverage — a thin equity base inflates the ratio. Read it next to debt-to-equity and ROIC to tell genuine returns from balance-sheet engineering.
How does return on equity compare across companies?
Comparable across peers, with the leverage caveat. Negative or near-zero equity makes ROE meaningless, so it is suppressed there.