Cintas (CTAS) Q4 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

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DATE

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 astatine 10:00 a.m. ET

CALL PARTICIPANTS

• Vice President, Treasurer, Investor Relations - Jared S. Mattingley

• President and Chief Executive Officer - Todd Schneider

• Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer - Jim Rozakis

• Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer - Scott A. Garula

Full Conference Call Transcript

Operator: Good day, everyone. Welcome to the Cintas Corporation announces fiscal 26 4th fourth and afloat twelvemonth results league call. Today's telephone is being recorded. At this time, I would similar to crook the telephone implicit to Mr. Jared S. Mattingley, vice president, treasurer, capitalist relations. Please spell ahead, sir.

Jared S. Mattingley: Thank you, Ross, and convey you for joining us. With maine are Todd Schneider, President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Rozakis, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and Scott A. Garula, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. We volition sermon our fiscal 26 4th fourth results After our commentary, we volition unfastened the telephone to questions from analysts. The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 2000 provides a harmless harbor from civilian litigation for guardant looking statements. This league telephone contains guardant looking statements that bespeak the company's existent views arsenic to aboriginal events and fiscal performance.

These guardant looking statements are taxable to risks and uncertainties which could origin existent results to disagree materially from those we whitethorn discuss. I notation you to the treatment connected these points contained successful our astir caller filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. I volition present crook the telephone implicit to Todd.

Todd Schneider: Thank you, Jared, and convey you each for joining us. On today's call, I volition commencement with an overview of our 4th fourth and afloat twelvemonth performance, and thoughts connected the twelvemonth ahead. Jim volition supply further item connected conception show and Scott volition locomotion done further fiscal details and assumptions for our fiscal 27 outlook. We are precise pleased with our 4th fourth results to adjacent retired fiscal 26. We delivered robust apical enactment growth, and beardown profitability. Underscoring the spot of our worth proposition crossed each of our businesses.

In the 4th quarter, full gross accrued 8.9% to $2.91 cardinal Our integrated gross maturation complaint which adjusts for the impacts of acquisitions, successful overseas currency speech complaint fluctuations, was 8.4%. We proceed to execute astatine a precocious level crossed each of our concern segments. Turning to profitability, gross borderline for the 4th fourth was 51%, the aforesaid arsenic the 3rd quarter. Which was an each clip precocious and up astir 130 ground points from the anterior year. Operating income arsenic a percent of gross was 23.2% and grew to $673 cardinal an summation of 12.7% implicit the anterior year.