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Held by 1,366 of 5,944 reporting institutions (99th percentile) — extremely crowded.
Data as of Q1 2026
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How management deployed cash over 10 years — and what it earned on reinvestment.
A cash-return story — far more went to shareholders than back into the business (mature, low-reinvestment).
Reinvestment has been productive — operating income grew well per dollar put in. Current ROIC on all capital: 25%. Rough measure (includes maintenance capex).
Cash uses aggregated from the SEC cash-flow statement over 10 fiscal years. "Return on reinvestment" is a rough proxy — operating-income change ÷ cumulative CapEx + M&A — and includes maintenance capex. Educational — not a recommendation.
How much the company owes, how it's trended, and how comfortably it's serviced.
Cash of $264M covers the $0 due within a year 263973000.0× over. Scheduled principal only (excludes interest & revolver draws). As of 2025-05-31 (10-K).
Green ≤ 1.5× · amber ≤ 3× · red > 3× (leverage relative to cash earnings).
Interest is easily covered by operating profit. Effective rate ~4.2% on $2.4B of debt.
Cash of $264M fully covers short-term debt of $0.
Mostly long-term debt (balance-sheet current vs non-current split). See the maturity ladder above for the year-by-year repayment schedule.
Debt, cash, interest and equity from the SEC balance sheet & income statement. Effective rate = interest ÷ average debt. Maturity ladder from the SEC long-term-debt repayment schedule. Educational — not a recommendation.
Solve the discounted cash flow backwards, then stress-test the assumptions.
To be worth $197.96 today, the market must believe free cash flow compounds 20.9%/yr for a decade (off $1.6B normalized FCF).
The market's 20.9% is more conservative than its 9-yr track record.
2-stage DCF · 0.40B shares · net debt $2.2B
mean 33.7% · volatility σ 49% · implied rate exceeded in 4/9 yrs
Central path = implied 20.9%/yr growth; shaded band = ±1σ (49%) of this company's historical FCF volatility, widening with time. The wider the band, the less certain the growth.
Reverse DCF: rather than guessing a fair value, we solve for the growth the current price implies, then you stress-test the assumptions. Enterprise value of the FCF stream, less net debt, ÷ shares. Educational — not a recommendation.
Is the value real, and is the business safe? Academic scores + earnings quality + solvency, from SEC filings.
Insufficient balance-sheet detail (needs retained earnings, working capital, equity).
Eight indices comparing this year to last (receivables, margins, asset quality, growth, accruals, leverage). Above −1.78 suggests possible manipulation; below −2.22 is clean.
A screen, not proof — high growth alone can raise it.
Cash conversion lags reported earnings — watch accruals. Lower/negative accruals = higher quality (Sloan).
Comfortably covers interest; leverage falling year-over-year.
F-Score (0–9 fundamental momentum), Altman Z (distress risk), and Beneish M (earnings-manipulation screen) are academic models computed from the SEC filings. Screens and context — educational, not recommendations.
What the company returns to shareholders — and whether it's covered by cash.
The dividend is comfortably covered — only 35% of free cash flow, leaving room to grow it and fund buybacks. Last year: $612M dividends + $935M buybacks = $1.5B returned on $1.8B FCF.
1 consecutive years of dividend increases · 4%/yr.
Yields use the latest fiscal-year dividends/buybacks over current market cap. Dividends and buybacks from the SEC cash-flow statement; payout coverage vs net income and free cash flow. Educational — not a recommendation.
EOD close · as of 2026-09-17
No material risks flagged.
Is the profit real, and how strong is the balance sheet?
FY2025 · every deduction from revenue to net income
DuPont — the three levers
Returns are margin-driven, not leverage-driven — higher quality.
What the company owes vs. what it holds
Year-by-year maturities aren't in SEC companyfacts (footnote-only), so this shows the debt/cash structure and net leverage instead.
Latest year: profit growth vs revenue growth
High operating leverage: profit moved 1.8× as fast as sales — great in an upturn, painful in a downturn.
Each line as % of revenue — the trend in color
| % of revenue | FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2020 | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost of Revenue | — | — | — | — | — | 52.7 | 51.2 | 50.0 |
| Gross Profit | 44.9 | 45.4 | 45.6 | 46.6 | 46.2 | 47.3 | 48.8 | 50.0 |
| SG&A | 29.6 | 28.7 | 29.2 | 27.1 | 26.0 | 26.9 | 27.3 | 27.2 |
| Operating Income | 14.7 | 16.4 | 16.4 | 19.5 | 20.2 | 20.4 | 21.6 | 22.8 |
| Income Tax | 0.9 | 3.2 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
| Net Income | 13.0 | 12.8 | 12.4 | 15.6 | 15.7 | 15.3 | 16.4 | 17.5 |
Green = margin-favorable vs the row's own range · red = unfavorable.
The metrics that matter, over time
A 30-second read on CTAS: price, valuation, headline fundamentals, and an auto-generated scorecard from SEC filings. Flags are rule-based signals, not recommendations.
EOD close · as of 2026-09-17
How a revenue dollar becomes profit — FY2025
Each value shows its share of revenue below it (common-size).
| Line Item | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | FY2020 | FY2019 | FY2018 | FY2017 | FY2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $10.34B 100.0% | $9.60B 100.0% | $8.82B 100.0% | $7.85B 100.0% | $7.12B 100.0% | $7.09B 100.0% | $6.89B 100.0% | $6.48B 100.0% | $5.32B 100.0% | $4.80B 100.0% |
| Cost of Revenue | $5.17B 50.0% | $4.91B 51.2% | $4.64B 52.7% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Gross Profit | $5.17B 50.0% | $4.69B 48.8% | $4.17B 47.3% | $3.63B 46.2% | $3.31B 46.6% | $3.23B 45.6% | $3.13B 45.4% | $2.91B 44.9% | $2.38B 44.7% | $2.10B 43.8% |
| Selling, General & Admin | $2.81B 27.2% | $2.62B 27.3% | $2.37B 26.9% | $2.04B 26.0% | $1.93B 27.1% | $2.07B 29.2% | $1.98B 28.7% | $1.92B 29.6% | $1.53B 28.7% | $1.33B 27.8% |
| Operating Income | $2.36B 22.8% | $2.07B 21.6% | $1.80B 20.4% | $1.59B 20.2% | $1.39B 19.5% | $1.16B 16.4% | $1.13B 16.4% | $949.8M 14.7% | $773.7M 14.5% | $768.9M 16.0% |
| Interest Expense | $101.1M 1.0% | $100.7M 1.0% | $111.2M 1.3% | $88.8M 1.1% | $98.2M 1.4% | $105.4M 1.5% | $101.7M 1.5% | $110.2M 1.7% | $86.5M 1.6% | $64.5M 1.3% |
| Interest & Investment Income | $5.6M 0.1% | $5.7M 0.1% | $1.7M 0.0% | $242K 0.0% | $467K 0.0% | $988K 0.0% | $1.2M 0.0% | $1.3M 0.0% | $237K 0.0% | $896K 0.0% |
| Pretax Income | $2.26B 21.9% | $1.97B 20.6% | $1.69B 19.2% | $1.50B 19.1% | $1.29B 18.1% | $1.06B 14.9% | $1.10B 16.0% | $841.0M 13.0% | $687.4M 12.9% | $705.3M 14.7% |
| Income Tax Expense | $451.9M 4.4% | $402.0M 4.2% | $345.1M 3.9% | $263.0M 3.3% | $176.8M 2.5% | $181.9M 2.6% | $219.8M 3.2% | $57.1M 0.9% | $230.1M 4.3% | $256.7M 5.4% |
| Net Income | $1.81B 17.5% | $1.57B 16.4% | $1.35B 15.3% | $1.24B 15.7% | $1.11B 15.6% | $876.0M 12.4% | $885.0M 12.8% | $842.6M 13.0% | $480.7M 9.0% | $693.5M 14.5% |
| Per Share | ||||||||||
| EPS (Basic) | $4.48 | $3.85 | $3.30 | $11.92 | $10.52 | $8.36 | $8.25 | $7.78 | $4.49 | $6.30 |
| EPS (Diluted) | $4.40 | $3.79 | $3.25 | $11.65 | $10.24 | $8.11 | $7.99 | $7.56 | $4.38 | $6.21 |
| Weighted Avg Shares (Basic) | 403.5M | 406.6M | 406.6M | 103.2M | 104.9M | 103.8M | 106.1M | 106.6M | 105.0M | 108.2M |
| Weighted Avg Shares (Diluted) | 410.3M | 413.5M | 413.5M | 105.5M | 107.7M | 107.0M | 109.5M | 109.8M | 107.8M | 110.0M |
Source: SEC EDGAR XBRL filings (annual, fiscal year). Quarterly flow items are derived from cumulative filings; balance-sheet figures are as-of each period end. Ratios and margins are computed, not reported.
Total return (dividends reinvested) vs the market, from quarter-end prices.
Above 0 = ahead of the S&P 500 since the window start; below 0 = behind. Rising means it's pulling ahead.
How far the stock fell below its prior peak. Deeper, longer drawdowns = a rougher ride to the same return.
Quarter-end, dividend-adjusted (total return). Beta & volatility from quarterly returns (annualized). Benchmark is the S&P 500 (SPY total return). Annual returns compound the quarters ending in each calendar year; the first and last years in a window may be partial. Past performance doesn't predict future results.
Ranked against 651 sector peers with collected financials. Valuation from latest close × latest fiscal-year fundamentals; 13F conviction as of 2026-03-31.
Percentile is “goodness” within the peer set (100 = best). For valuation and leverage that means cheaper / less-levered ranks higher.
| Company | Mkt cap ▼ | P/E | EV/EBITDA | P/S | Rev gr | Gross | Net | ROE | ROIC | Net D/EBITDA | 13F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LTM | $29.49T | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 160 |
| CAT | $371.6B | 42.5× | 29.7× | 5.5× | 4.3% | 33.8% | 13.1% | 41.7% | 15.4% | 2.7× | 3,616 |
| GE | $328.8B | 38.5× | — | 7.2× | 18.5% | — | 19.0% | 46.6% | 22.2% | — | 3,077 |
| RTX | $259.8B | 39.0× | 18.5× | 2.9× | 9.7% | — | 7.6% | 10.3% | 10.3% | 0.0× | 3,277 |
| BA | $199.4B | 79.4× | 40.2× | 2.2× | 34.5% | 4.8% | 2.5% | 41.0% | 3.3% | 10.0× | 2,435 |
| DE | $185.4B | 37.1× | — | 4.1× | -11.7% | — | 11.0% | 19.4% | 12.6% | — | 2,491 |
| ABBNY | $177.4B | 47.9× | 31.6× | 5.5× | 9.5% | 34.8% | 11.9% | 28.5% | 20.4% | 0.9× | 48 |
| UNP | $167.6B | 23.6× | 16.1× | 6.8× | 1.1% | — | 29.1% | 38.7% | 14.2% | 2.6× | 2,648 |
| ETN | $158.8B | 39.2× | — | 5.8× | 10.3% | 37.6% | 14.9% | 21.0% | 13.9% | — | 2,398 |
| HON | $131.2B | 28.1× | 16.1× | 3.5× | 7.8% | 36.9% | 12.6% | 34.0% | 9.8% | 3.6× | 2,694 |
| LMT | $123.2B | 25.0× | 16.1× | 1.6× | 5.6% | 10.2% | 6.7% | 74.6% | 17.7% | 2.5× | 2,807 |
| PH | $118.7B | 34.1× | 26.8× | 6.0× | -0.4% | 36.9% | 17.8% | 25.8% | 16.7% | 1.6× | 1,845 |
| ADP | $108.3B | 24.9× | — | 4.9× | 6.7% | 46.4% | 20.1% | 73.2% | 40.1% | — | 2,179 |
| GD | $96.2B | 23.0× | 16.9× | 1.8× | 10.1% | — | 8.0% | 16.4% | 12.5% | 1.3× | 2,123 |
| TT | $94.4B | 32.6× | 23.3× | 4.4× | 7.5% | — | 13.7% | 34.0% | 22.1% | 1.1× | 1,658 |
| VRT | $92.4B | 70.8× | 43.8× | 9.0× | 27.7% | 36.3% | 13.0% | 33.8% | 19.4% | 1.4× | 1,748 |
| PWR | $92.2B | 90.7× | 45.8× | 3.2× | 20.3% | 15.0% | 3.6% | 11.5% | 10.6% | 0.4× | 1,659 |
| JCI | $91.9B | 28.0× | — | 3.9× | 2.8% | 36.4% | 13.9% | 25.5% | 14.4% | — | 1,487 |
| HWM | $90.7B | 60.9× | 39.9× | 11.0× | 11.1% | — | 18.3% | 28.2% | 17.9% | 1.3× | 1,399 |
| CSX | $89.1B | 31.1× | 14.4× | 6.3× | -3.1% | — | 20.5% | 22.0% | 22.0% | — | 1,791 |
| MMM | $87.3B | 27.4× | 16.8× | 3.5× | 1.5% | 39.9% | 13.0% | 69.1% | 18.8% | 2.1× | 2,051 |
| WM | $86.0B | 31.8× | 12.1× | 3.4× | 14.2% | 40.4% | 10.7% | 27.1% | 25.3% | 0.1× | 2,262 |
| UPS | $85.0B | 15.3× | 9.5× | 1.0× | -2.6% | — | 6.3% | 34.3% | 13.8% | 2.2× | 2,025 |
| EMR | $83.0B | 36.5× | — | 4.6× | 3.0% | 52.8% | 12.7% | 11.3% | 6.9% | — | 2,112 |
| CTAS | $79.8B | 45.0× | 28.7× | 7.7× | 7.7% | 50.0% | 17.5% | 38.7% | 25.5% | 0.8× | 1,366 |
Peers = companies sharing CTAS's sector (Industrials) with collected SEC financials. Multiples use the most recent end-of-day close and latest fiscal-year fundamentals (trailing, not forward). Missing cells mean the peer never reported that line item, has no collected price, or has a non-positive denominator. Not investment advice.