Cintas Corporation vs UNDER ARMOUR, INC., two Apparel stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where CTAS and UA diverge most: on revenue growth, CTAS reads +8.7% and UA reads -3.7%; on operating margin, CTAS reads 23.2% and UA reads -2.9%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What CTAS's price implies is a demanding bet versus history and the cohort (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | CTAS | UA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $179.57 | $6.62 |
| Market cap | $72.7B | $2.8B |
| Sector | Apparel | Apparel |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +27.0% | — |
| P/E | 38.0 | — |
| P/B | 15.18 | 1.99 |
| P/S | 6.59 | 0.57 |
| EV/EBITDA | 28.3 | 46.4 |
| Revenue growth | +8.7% | -3.7% |
| Gross margin | 51.0% | 42.0% |
| Operating margin | 23.2% | -2.9% |
| Net margin | 17.6% | -10.0% |
| Return on equity | 40.5% | -35.0% |
| Return on assets | 18.9% | -11.2% |
| Return on invested capital | 27.0% | -0.4% |
| FCF yield | 2.5% | -5.8% |
| Dividend yield | 0.9% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.55 | 1.27 |
| Current ratio | 1.98 | 1.62 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 9.24 | 2.01 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 1 / 9 |
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