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UniFirst (FRA:U1N) Altman Z-Score : 6.78 (As of Mar. 03, 2025)


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What is UniFirst Altman Z-Score?

The Altman Z-Score is a model designed to predict the likelihood of a company going bankrupt within the next two years. Created by American finance professor Edward Altman in 1968, the model is specifically designed for publicly traded manufacturing companies with assets greater than $1 million.

Good Sign:

Altman Z-score of 6.71 is strong.

UniFirst has a Altman Z-Score of 6.78, indicating it is in Safe Zones. This implies the Altman Z-Score is strong.

The zones of discrimination were as such:

When Altman Z-Score <= 1.8, it is in Distress Zones.
When Altman Z-Score >= 3, it is in Safe Zones.
When Altman Z-Score is between 1.8 and 3, it is in Grey Zones.

The historical rank and industry rank for UniFirst's Altman Z-Score or its related term are showing as below:

FRA:U1N' s Altman Z-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 5.51   Med: 7.34   Max: 8.48
Current: 6.71

During the past 13 years, UniFirst's highest Altman Z-Score was 8.48. The lowest was 5.51. And the median was 7.34.


UniFirst Altman Z-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for UniFirst's Altman Z-Score 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 Altman Z-Score Chart

UniFirst Annual Data
Trend Aug15 Aug16 Aug17 Aug18 Aug19 Aug20 Aug21 Aug22 Aug23 Aug24
Altman Z-Score
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 7.34 7.64 6.42 5.85 6.07

UniFirst Quarterly Data
Feb20 May20 Aug20 Nov20 Feb21 May21 Aug21 Nov21 Feb22 May22 Aug22 Nov22 Feb23 May23 Aug23 Nov23 Feb24 May24 Aug24 Nov24
Altman Z-Score 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 5.85 5.72 5.51 6.07 6.44

Competitive Comparison of UniFirst's Altman Z-Score

For the Specialty Business Services subindustry, UniFirst's Altman Z-Score, along with its competitors' market caps and Altman Z-Score 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 Altman Z-Score Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, UniFirst's Altman Z-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where UniFirst's Altman Z-Score falls into.



UniFirst Altman Z-Score Calculation

Altman Z-Score model is an accurate forecaster of failure up to two years prior to distress. It can be considered the assessment of the distress of industrial corporations.

UniFirst's Altman Z-Score for today is calculated with this formula:

Z=1.2*X1+1.4*X2+3.3*X3+0.6*X4+1.0*X5
=1.2*0.2426+1.4*0.7611+3.3*0.0698+0.6*7.1734+1.0*0.8864
=6.78

* 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. GuruFocus does not calculate Altman Z-Score when X4 or X5 value is 0.

Trailing Twelve Months (TTM) ended in Nov. 2024:
Total Assets was €2,545 Mil.
Total Current Assets was €863 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was €246 Mil.
Retained Earnings was €1,937 Mil.
Pre-Tax Income was 54.576 + 51.764 + 45.634 + 25.695 = €178 Mil.
Interest Expense was 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = €0 Mil.
Revenue was 569.823 + 580.359 + 558.078 + 547.589 = €2,256 Mil.
Market Cap (Today) was €3,839 Mil.
Total Liabilities was €535 Mil.

* Note that for stock reported semi-annually or annually, GuruFocus uses latest annual data as the TTM data.

X1=Working Capital/Total Assets
=(Total Current Assets - Total Current Liabilities)/Total Assets
=(863.246 - 245.766)/2545.05
=0.2426

X2=Retained Earnings/Total Assets
=1936.958/2545.05
=0.7611

X3=Earnings Before Interest and Taxes/Total Assets
=(Pre-Tax Income - Interest Expense)/Total Assets
=(177.669 - 0)/2545.05
=0.0698

X4=Market Value Equity/Book Value of Total Liabilities
=Market Cap/Total Liabilities
=3838.874/535.155
=7.1734

X5=Revenue/Total Assets
=2255.849/2545.05
=0.8864

The zones of discrimination were as such:

Distress Zones - 1.81 < Grey Zones < 2.99 - Safe Zones

UniFirst has a Altman Z-Score of 6.78 indicating it is in Safe Zones.

Study by Altman found that companies that are in Distress Zone have more than 80% of chances of bankruptcy in two years.


UniFirst  (FRA:U1N) Altman Z-Score Explanation

X1: The Working Capital/Total Assets (WC/TA) ratio is a measure of the net liquid assets of the firm relative to the total capitalization. Working capital is defined as the difference between current assets and current liabilities. Ordinarily, a firm experiencing consistent operating losses will have shrinking current assets in relation to total assets. Altman found this one proved to be the most valuable liquidity ratio comparing with the current ratio and the quick ratio. This is however the least significant of the five factors.

X2: Retained Earnings/Total Assets: the RE/TA ratio measures the leverage of a firm. Retained earnings is the account which reports the total amount of reinvested earnings and/or losses of a firm over its entire life. Those firms with high RE, relative to TA, have financed their assets through retention of profits and have not utilized as much debt.

X3, Earnings Before Interest and Taxes/Total Assets (EBIT/TA): This ratio is a measure of the true productivity of the firm's assets, independent of any tax or leverage factors. Since a firm's ultimate existence is based on the earning power of its assets, this ratio appears to be particularly appropriate for studies dealing with corporate failure. This ratio continually outperforms other profitability measures, including cash flow.

X4, Market Value of Equity/Book Value of Total Liabilities (MVE/TL): The measure shows how much the firm's assets can decline in value (measured by market value of equity plus debt) before the liabilities exceed the assets and the firm becomes insolvent.

X5, Revenue/Total Assets (S/TA): The capital-turnover ratio is a standard financial ratio illustrating the sales generating ability of the firm's assets.

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Altman Z-Score does not apply to financial companies.


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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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