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UniFirst (FRA:U1N) Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio : 1.53 (As of Jun. 02, 2025)


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What is UniFirst Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio?

As of today (2025-06-02), UniFirst's current share price is €165.00. UniFirst's Cyclically Adjusted Revenue per Share for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2025 was €107.80. UniFirst's Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio for today is 1.53.

The historical rank and industry rank for UniFirst's Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

FRA:U1N' s Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.38   Med: 2   Max: 3.04
Current: 1.64

During the past years, UniFirst's highest Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio was 3.04. The lowest was 1.38. And the median was 2.00.

FRA:U1N's Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio is ranked worse than
66.83% of 624 companies
in the Business Services industry
Industry Median: 0.9 vs FRA:U1N: 1.64

The Shiller PE Ratio was first used by professor Robert Shiller. He uses E10 for his Shiller PE Ratio calculation. E10 is the average of the inflation adjusted earnings per share of a company over the past 10 years. The similar calculation is applied by GuruFocus to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio. The Cyclically Adjusted Revenue per Share is the average of the inflation adjusted revenue per share of a company over the past 10 years.

UniFirst's adjusted revenue per share data for the three months ended in Feb. 2025 was €31.001. Add all the adjusted revenue per share for the past 10 years together and divide 10 will get our Cyclically Adjusted Revenue per Share, which is €107.80 for the trailing ten years ended in Feb. 2025.

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UniFirst Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for UniFirst's Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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UniFirst Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio Chart

UniFirst Annual Data
Trend Aug15 Aug16 Aug17 Aug18 Aug19 Aug20 Aug21 Aug22 Aug23 Aug24
Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.36 2.58 1.83 1.67 1.70

UniFirst Quarterly Data
May20 Aug20 Nov20 Feb21 May21 Aug21 Nov21 Feb22 May22 Aug22 Nov22 Feb23 May23 Aug23 Nov23 Feb24 May24 Aug24 Nov24 Feb25
Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.56 1.44 1.70 1.78 1.87

Competitive Comparison of UniFirst's Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio

For the Specialty Business Services subindustry, UniFirst's Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


UniFirst's Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, UniFirst's Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where UniFirst's Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio falls into.


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UniFirst Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio Calculation

Like the Shiller PE Ratio, the Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio takes the Revenue per Share from the past 10 years, adjusts it for inflation, and then calculates the average. This average is then used for the P/S calculation. Because it considers this 10-year average, it's often referred to as the CAPS Ratio.

The Shiller PE Ratio was first used by professor Robert Shiller to measure the valuation of the overall market. The similar calculation is applied by GuruFocus to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio.

UniFirst's Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio for today is calculated as

Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted Revenue per Share
=165.00/107.80
=1.53

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

UniFirst's Cyclically Adjusted Revenue per Share for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2025 is calculated as:

For example, UniFirst's adjusted Revenue per Share data for the three months ended in Feb. 2025 was:

Adj_RevenuePerShare=Revenue per Share/CPI of Feb. 2025 (Change)*Current CPI (Feb. 2025)
=31.001/134.6241*134.6241
=31.001

Current CPI (Feb. 2025) = 134.6241.

UniFirst Quarterly Data

Revenue per Share CPI Adj_RevenuePerShare
201505 16.263 100.333 21.821
201508 16.012 100.548 21.439
201511 17.286 100.135 23.240
201602 16.263 100.040 21.885
201605 16.109 101.355 21.397
201608 16.069 101.617 21.289
201611 17.676 101.829 23.369
201702 18.115 102.779 23.728
201705 18.290 103.256 23.846
201708 16.805 103.587 21.840
201711 17.336 104.072 22.425
201802 16.596 105.052 21.268
201805 18.366 106.148 23.293
201808 19.458 106.383 24.623
201811 19.994 106.338 25.313
201902 20.041 106.649 25.298
201905 21.162 108.048 26.367
201908 22.546 108.245 28.041
201911 22.025 108.519 27.323
202002 22.300 109.139 27.507
202005 21.618 108.175 26.904
202008 18.686 109.662 22.939
202011 19.877 109.793 24.372
202102 19.539 110.968 23.704
202105 20.059 113.576 23.776
202108 20.783 115.421 24.241
202111 22.384 117.269 25.697
202202 22.607 119.703 25.425
202205 25.638 123.323 27.987
202208 27.028 124.958 29.119
202211 28.341 125.607 30.375
202302 27.009 126.928 28.647
202305 28.298 128.314 29.690
202308 27.902 129.538 28.998
202311 29.219 129.548 30.364
202402 29.199 130.930 30.023
202405 29.836 132.509 30.312
202408 31.065 132.816 31.488
202411 30.527 133.110 30.874
202502 31.001 134.624 31.001

Add all the adjusted revenue per share together and divide 10 will get our Cyclically Adjusted Revenue per Share.

Please note that we use the CPI data of the country/region where the company is headquartered. If the CPI data for that country/region is not available, then we will use the CPI data of the United States as default.


UniFirst  (FRA:U1N) Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio Explanation

Compared with the regular PS Ratio, which works poorly for cyclical businesses, the Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio smoothed out the fluctuations of revenue during business cycles. Therefore it is more accurate in reflecting the valuation of the company.

If a company has consistent business performance, the Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio should give similar results to regular PS Ratio.


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UniFirst Business Description

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Address
68 Jonspin Road, Wilmington, MA, USA, 01887
UniFirst Corp provides workplace uniforms, protective clothing, and other workplace products and services to businesses in the United States, Canada, and Europe. The U.S. and Canadian Rental and Cleaning segment that accounts for the majority of the company engages in sales rents and sells clothing and non-garment items, and offers a cleaning service that delivers clean uniforms when it picks up dirty or contaminated ones. Manufacturing segment designs and manufactures uniforms and non-garment items. Specialty garments rental and cleaning segment provides specialty garments, non-garments, and cleaning services for nuclear and classroom applications. The First Aid segment provides safety supplies and pill packaging. The Corporate segment consists of various associated costs.

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