Unifirst Corporation (UNF): Price and Financial Metrics

UNF POWR Grades

• Sentiment is the dimension where UNF ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 88.05% of US stocks.
• UNF's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 178 days.
• UNF ranks lowest in Value; there it ranks in the 23rd percentile.

UNF Stock Summary

• UNIFIRST CORP's stock had its IPO on January 5, 1988, making it an older stock than 90.28% of US equities in our set.
• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for UNIFIRST CORP is higher than it is for about only 14.27% of US stocks.
• The volatility of UNIFIRST CORP's share price is greater than that of just 10.47% US stocks with at least 200 days of trading history.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to UNIFIRST CORP are NPK, TIXT, SAIA, NWSA, and GHC.
• UNF's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit UNIFIRST CORP's official web site, go to www.unifirst.com.

UNF Valuation Summary

• UNF's price/earnings ratio is 34.2; this is 79.06% higher than that of the median Industrials stock.
• UNF's EV/EBIT ratio has moved up 17.2 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for UNF.

UNF Growth Metrics

Its 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 26.09%.
• The 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 7.73%.
• The 3 year price growth rate now stands at 10.06%.

UNF's revenue has moved up $359,967,000 over the prior 52 months.

The table below shows UNF's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-12-31	2,056.456	142.525	103.656
2022-09-30	2,000.822	122.649	103.404
2022-06-30	1,949.684	113.617	111.837
2022-03-31	1,902.459	129.179	128.786
2021-12-31	1,865.527	167.383	142.92
2021-09-30	1,826.216	212.302	151.111

UNF's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• UNF has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 80.73% of graded US stocks.
• UNF's asset turnover comes in at 0.792 -- ranking 20th of 50 Personal Services stocks.
• BFAM, GHC, and LRN are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with UNF.

The table below shows UNF's key quality metrics over time.