Unifirst Corp (UNF)

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Unifirst Corp's filings since 2017 show 2 warning events: a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, 2 times, the latest 2024-10-31) (its current reports).

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Unifirst Corp's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.6 billion in fiscal 2017 to $2.5 billion in fiscal 2026, up 5.3% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 0% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-08-29, Unifirst Corp's diluted share count shrank about 1.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 25% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 2 sales (2 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-03 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-08-29, Unifirst Corp earned about 5 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 32 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 22 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 2.1% over the year (the filed statements).

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Unifirst Corp's standing among 11 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.5 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 25% by size; a net margin of 4.3% ranks in the top 41%; revenue growth of 4.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 50% (its annual reports).

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Unifirst Corp's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Sintros, Steven S (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2017-12-18, 8.9 years (top 45% of its family); the 11 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 10 years (top 28%); 7 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 11 people in charge now (bottom 45%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Unifirst Corp's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $192 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 6.7% of its assets as net cash, top 35% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 2.8% of revenue (bottom 35%); a gross margin of 36.6% (top 19%) (its annual report).

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Unifirst Corp's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 4.1% a year over the last three filed years against 5.3% over all 10, slowing (top 35% of its family); the newest year grew 3.7% (top 45%); capital spending grew -7.8% a year (bottom 45%) (its annual reports). Unifirst Corp reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Uniforms and Facility Service Solutions at $2.2 billion (91%), First Aid and Safety Solutions at $115 million (5%), All Other at $99 million (4%); 2 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Unifirst Corp's newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.5 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 0.6% below the $2.5 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 35% of its family); net income of $109 million against a prior three-year average of $132 million (bottom 25%); a net margin of 4.3% against 5.6% before (bottom 25%) (its annual reports).