Workplace uniform provider UniFirst (NYSE: UNF) will be announcing earnings results this Wednesday before market hours. Here’s what you need to know.

UniFirst beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $621.3 million, up 2.7% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates and full-year revenue guidance meeting analysts’ expectations.

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This quarter, the market is expecting UniFirst’s revenue to grow 2% year on year, in line with the 1.9% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.

Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. UniFirst has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.

Looking at UniFirst’s peers in the business services & supplies segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Cintas delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 8.9%, beating analysts’ expectations by 0.7%, and MillerKnoll reported revenues up 5.8%, falling short of estimates by 1.6%. Cintas traded down 5.2% following the results while MillerKnoll was also down 22.4%.

Read our full analysis of Cintas’s results here and MillerKnoll’s results here.

Markets spent late 2025 hand-wringing over AI's threat to software and crypto, only for the US-Iran conflict to seize the narrative in 2026. While some of the business services & supplies stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 7.8% on average over the last month. UniFirst is up 7.8% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $261 (compared to the current share price of $249.43).

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