Cintas FY27 Q1: revenue up 10.9%, EPS $1.36, guidance raised
Cintas opened fiscal 2027 with record revenue and a record operating margin, and management raised full-year sales and adjusted EPS guidance — this was a clean quarter, not merely a bigger one. Read it in three steps: how much revenue grew (10.9%), how much of that reached the bottom line (adjusted EPS up 15.8%), and whether the raised bar leaves room for the UniFirst deal to surprise.
1 · Expected vs. Actual
Free preview belowDiluted EPS was $1.36, up 13.3%, and adjusted diluted EPS of $1.39 was up 15.8% after adding back $0.03 of UniFirst transaction costs. Net income rose 12.3% to $551.7 million, a touch slower than EPS because buybacks shrank the diluted share count to 404.3 million from 409.3 million.
Revenue rose 10.9% to $3.01 billion, with uniform rental and facility services at $2.29 billion (up 9.7%) and other products and services at $719.2 million (up 14.7%). Strip out one extra workday versus a year ago and growth was 9.2%; strip out acquisitions and currency too and organic growth was 8.9%, so the headline slightly overstates the underlying pace.
Management lifted full-year revenue guidance to $12.15–$12.27 billion from $12.10–$12.25 billion, and adjusted diluted EPS to $5.45–$5.54 from $5.36–$5.50. The $12.21 billion midpoint implies roughly 8.4% growth over fiscal 2026's $11.26 billion, and it excludes any UniFirst contribution. The EPS guide also excludes future buybacks, so the $544.7 million repurchased is upside that is not in the number.
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Figures on this page come from the company's original SEC filings. The analysis is generated automatically and checked against validation rules, but may still contain errors or omissions. Not investment advice. · Generated 2026-11-03
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