Unifirst Corporation (UNF): Price and Financial Metrics

UNF POWR Grades

• UNF scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 92.42% of US stocks.
• UNF's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• UNF's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 19.18% of US stocks).

UNF Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 310.63, Unifirst Corp is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 91.98% of US stocks.
• Unifirst Corp's stock had its IPO on January 5, 1988, making it an older stock than 89.32% of US equities in our set.
• For UNF, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by merely 13.58% of US equities we're observing.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to UNF, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are PFC, NRC, SASR, SVT, and WABC.
• Visit UNF's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.unifirst.com.

UNF Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Industrials stock, UNF's EV/EBIT ratio is 10.3% lower, now standing at 19.6.
• Over the past 243 months, UNF's price/earnings ratio has gone up 15.2.
• UNF's price/sales ratio has moved up 1.8 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for UNF.

UNF Growth Metrics

The 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 1.97%.
• Its 2 year price growth rate is now at -4.5%.
• Its 3 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 30.13%.

UNF's revenue has moved up $404,264,000 over the prior 70 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
2021-12-31	1,865.527	167.383	142.92
2021-09-30	1,826.216	212.302	151.111
2021-06-30	1,789.583	268.775	148.06
2021-03-31	1,770.778	277.831	127.329
2020-12-31	1,785.614	286.991	129.424
2020-09-30	1,804.159	286.684	135.77

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.