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Is it safe?
Can CTAS take a bad year?
Cintas carries $2.14B of net debt at 0.75× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$2.14B
Net debt · as at Q4 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.75×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.83× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 11.73
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 24.5×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ4 2026
- $2.43B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $289M
- Net debt
- $2.14B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $2.85B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $2.61B
- Debt / equity
- 0.47×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.85×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 24%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −48%
- Below its 52-week high
- 6.8%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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