Aramark (ARMK)
Industrials · NYQ · US
Price as at 1 Oct 2026, 14:40 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Aramark trades at $53.46, close to the $55.05 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On this measure the market and the model broadly agree, so the interesting question is which of them is wrong.
Our moat model scores it 30 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 38.0 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
ARMK dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $0.360 | 3 |
| 2025 | $0.435 | 4 |
| 2024 | $0.390 | 4 |
| 2023 | $0.333 | 4 |
| 2022 | $0.318 | 4 |
| 2021 | $0.318 | 4 |
| 2020 | $0.318 | 4 |
| 2019 | $0.318 | 4 |
| 2018 | $0.307 | 4 |
| 2017 | $0.299 | 4 |
| 2016 | $0.280 | 4 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
ARMK earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 16 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About Aramark
Aramark provides food and facilities services to education, healthcare, business and industry, sports, leisure, and corrections clients in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Food and Support Services United States, and Food and Support Services International. It offers food-related managed services, including dining, catering, food service management, and convenience-oriented retail services; non-clinical food and food-related support services, such as patient food and nutrition, retail food, environmental services, and procurement services; and plant operations and maintenance, custodial/housekeeping, energy management, grounds keeping, and capital project management services. The company also provides on-site restaurants, catering, convenience stores, and executive dining services; beverage and vending services; and facility management services comprising landscaping, transportation, capital program management, payment services, and other facility consulting services relating to building operations. In addition, it offers concessions, banquet, and catering services; retail services and merchandise sale, recreational, and lodging services; and facility management services at sports, entertainment, and recreational facilities. Further, the company offers correctional food; and operates commissaries, laundry facilities, and property rooms. The company was formerly known as ARAMARK Holdings Corporation. Aramark was founded in 1959 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
ARMK passes 1 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
14 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$457.39M · 0.2% of book
- Farallon Capital, FARALLON CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.L.C.$206.30M · 0.9% of book
- Ken Griffin, CITADEL ADVISORS LLC$182.20M · 0.0% of book
- Israel Englander, MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC$179.69M · 0.1% of book
- Jeremy Grantham, Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. LLC$164.65M · 0.4% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Politician trades in ARMK
Trades in ARMK disclosed by members of Congress and executive-branch officials, latest first:
- Gilbert Cisneros · HouseBuy · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 10 Dec 2025 · disclosed 12 Jan 2026
- Gilbert Cisneros · HouseBuy · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 14 Apr 2025 · disclosed 6 May 2025
A disclosure reports a value band, not an amount, and is due up to 45 days after the trade; some arrive later. Every filer we track, each with their own page, is on the Congress trading tracker.
ARMK peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Specialty Business Services), then in the same sector.
- RLXXF RELX PLC
- TRI.TO Thomson Reuters Corporation
- RBA RB Global, Inc.
- WTKWY Wolters Kluwer N.V.
- RTO Rentokil Initial plc
- AMTM Amentum Holdings, Inc.
- UNF UniFirst Corporation
- FA First Advantage Corporation
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Common questions
Is Aramark (ARMK) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $55.05, ARMK at $53.46 is 3% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own ARMK?
14 of the institutions we track reported a position in ARMK in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is ARMK's P/E ratio?
ARMK trades at 38.0 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does Aramark (ARMK) pay a dividend?
Yes. Aramark yields 0.88% at the current share price. It has paid $0.480 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 12 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
When does ARMK report earnings next?
Aramark is scheduled to report on 24 Nov 2026. Companies move earnings dates, so read it as scheduled rather than certain.
Where does SteadyShares get its ARMK data?
Fundamentals for ARMK come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NYQ; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 1 Oct 2026, 14:40 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 100/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.