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Unifirst Corp. UNF

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$2.4B
▲ 0.2% YoY
$148.3M
▲ 1.9% YoY
$142.5M
▲ 5.7% YoY
In brief

What this company does

UniFirst Corporation designs, manufactures, personalizes, rents, cleans, delivers, and sells a wide range of uniforms and protective clothing. As of August 30, 2025, it employed approximately 16,000 team partners across its operations. It provides its products and services to over 300,000 customer locations in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Beginning with the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025, the company reorganized its business into three reportable operating segments. UniFirst Corporation was organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1950.

Written from the business description in UNIFIRST CORPORATION's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 29 October 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 2.4B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 2.4 · Net income 0.1
1B2B200920112013201520172019202120232025
Compound annual growth
+6.7%
+6.2%
+5.3%
+5.9%
+12.8%
+1.8%
+1.8%
+4.5%
+13.5%
+2.3%
+2.6%
+4.9%
+13.6%
+20.6%
+42.0%
+26.6%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +6.2% a year over five years — but profit grew slower: net income at +1.8%, earnings per share at +2.3%.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
6 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 7.6% · Net 6.1%
5%10%200920112013201520172019202120232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 6.9%
5%10%200920112013201520172019202120232025

Each USD of equity produced 7 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 95.5M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 142.5
80M160M-8M-16M200920112013201520172019202120232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 24.6 · Net buybacks 70.9
50M100MDividendsNet buybacks200920112013201520172019202120232025

USD 24.6M in dividends and USD 70.9M in buybacks — 64% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 2.8B
EquityUSD 2.2B
CashUSD 203.5M
Current ratio3.18×

Equity funds 78% of total assets.

The 17-year record
17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B2.42.42.22.01.81.81.81.71.61.51.51.41.41.31.11.01.0
Operating income $B0.20.20.10.10.20.20.20.20.10.20.20.20.20.20.10.10.1
EBITDA $B0.30.30.30.20.30.30.30.30.20.30.30.30.30.20.20.20.2
Income tax $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.10.00.00.10.10.10.10.10.00.00.1
Net income $B0.10.10.10.10.20.10.20.20.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.1
Free cash flow $B0.10.10.0−0.00.10.20.20.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.00.10.1
EPS, diluted $7.987.775.535.467.947.139.338.213.446.176.155.955.814.763.853.903.92
Dividend / sh $·················
Payout %17162120121253422223444
ROE %6.97.15.35.58.48.011.511.25.09.610.511.212.211.210.211.412.1

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

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Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 66 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of 19 fiscal years. 12 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityServices-Personal Services
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inMassachusetts
Fiscal year endsAugust 29
Data on record since2009

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