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Provider of facility services, including janitorial, engineering, parking and vehicle maintenance for commercial buildings.
Provider of facility services, including janitorial, engineering, parking and vehicle maintenance for commercial buildings.
Is paid under multi-year service contracts, some fixed-price and some cost-plus, so margins depend on managing cleaning and maintenance labor. Janitorial services for commercial buildings form the biggest line. Much of its growth has come from buying smaller facility-services firms.
Moat: none (scale, distribution). National scale and long-term facility contracts, though the outsourced-services market remains price-competitive.
Headquarters: New York, New York · Founded: 1909 · Employees: 113,000
Size ABM Industries (ABM) is a United States Industrials company (Miscellaneous Commercial Services) with a market value of $3.10B, the 1523rd largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $52.90 on 6 Nov 2026.
Performance Over six months the shares gained 31.6%, against +1.0% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 5th highest of 21 in its peer set.
Growth Revenue grew 6.0% over the last twelve months (peer median +8.6%); the operating margin is 4.7% (peer median 11.4%).
Valuation It trades at 12.5× forward earnings against a peer median of 14.9× (4th cheapest of 18).
Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about -2% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +8%, so the hurdle is -10 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.
Capital Return on invested capital runs 2.4 points above its cost of capital (7.1% WACC).
Backlog Backlog (remaining performance obligations) was $287M at 31 Jul 2026, up 5% on a year earlier — 0.0 years of trailing revenue. Backlog detail →
Short interest Short interest is 3.3% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).
Next results Next results expected around 23 Dec 2026 (exchange calendar; dates can move).
| TTM | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $9.15B | $8.75B | $8.36B | $8.10B | $7.81B |
| Revenue growth | — | +5% | +3% | +4% | — |
| Gross profit | $1.04B | $1.02B | $977M | $982M | $977M |
| EBITDA | $541M | $431M | $414M | $552M | $454M |
| Net income | $166M | $162M | $81.4M | $251M | $230M |
| Free cash flow | $312M | $155M | $167M | $191M | -$30.4M |
| Capital expenditure | $96.1M | $79.3M | $59.4M | $52.6M | $50.8M |
| Total debt | $1.88B | $1.69B | $1.47B | $1.46B | $1.41B |
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| Company | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABM Industries ABM | $3.10B | +32% | +6% | 5% | 12.5× | -2.0% |
| Cushman & Wakefield CWK | $3.28B | -2% | +10% | 4% | 8.8× | n/a |
| Sodexo SW.PA | $9.91B | +28% | 0% | 3% | 17.7× | 6.0% |
| Aramark ARMK | $13.9B | +17% | +11% | 4% | 19.8× | 16.1% |
Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.
| Measure | ABM | Peer median | Rank in peer set |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-month return | +6.0% | -1.1% | 6th highest of 21 |
| 6-month return | +31.6% | +1.0% | 5th highest of 21 |
| Distance from 52-week high | -5.0% | -17.5% | 2nd highest of 21 |
| Revenue growth (TTM) | +6.0% | +8.6% | 10th lowest of 21 |
| Operating margin | 4.7% | 11.4% | 4th lowest of 21 |
| Forward P/E | 12.5× | 14.9× | 4th cheapest of 18 |
| Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) | -2.0% | -1.4% | 8th least demanding of 17 |
| Growth delivered (Del g) | +7.9% | +9.5% | 8th lowest of 17 |
| Hurdle (Req g minus delivered) | -9.9 pp | -11.8 pp | 8th most demanding of 17 |
| ROIC minus cost of capital | +2.4 pp | +3.7 pp | 8th lowest of 18 |
| EV / EBITDA | 9.0× | 7.3× | 7th most expensive of 15 |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 3.3× | 1.1× | 2nd most indebted of 15 |
| Company | Market | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g | Delivered g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABM Industries ABM | United States | $3.10B | +32% | +6% | 5% | 12.5× | -2.0% | +7.9% |
| Jianshe Industry Group (Yunnan) 002265.SZ | China | $3.12B | -11% | +42% | 5% | n/a | 26.3% | +47.9% |
| JHT Design 603061.SS | China | $3.07B | -8% | +93% | 34% | n/a | 43.9% | +30.4% |
| TriNet TNET | United States | $3.05B | +56% | -4% | 6% | 15.1× | -3.3% | +4.4% |
| Jiangsu Boqian New Materials Stock 605376.SS | China | $2.94B | -43% | +76% | 20% | 38.8× | n/a | n/a |
| Inventurus Knowledge Solutions IKS.NS | India | $2.94B | -2% | +20% | 31% | 31.8× | 21.2% | +45.8% |
| Shenzhen Fortune Trend Technology 688318.SS | China | $3.36B | -21% | -3% | 56% | 69.5× | n/a | n/a |
| CoreCivic CXW | United States | $2.84B | +41% | +24% | 10% | 12.1× | -1.6% | +3.0% |
| MAXIMUS MMS | United States | $3.43B | +2% | -3% | 11% | 7.9× | -8.5% | +9.4% |
| Loomis LOOMIS.ST | Sweden | $3.46B | +12% | +1% | 11% | 12.6× | -9.1% | +9.7% |
| Pluxee PLX.PA | France | $2.72B | 0% | +1% | 28% | 8.9× | n/a | n/a |
| MITIE MTO.L | United Kingdom | $3.56B | +23% | +11% | 3% | 14.2× | 14.1% | +17.6% |
| Serco SRP.L | United Kingdom | $3.60B | +5% | +1% | 5% | 14.9× | 1.9% | +4.9% |
| Huron Consulting HURN | United States | $2.63B | +39% | +12% | 12% | 16.5× | -4.0% | +14.3% |
| International Workplace IWG.L | United Kingdom | $2.63B | +12% | 0% | 4% | 22.5× | 33.6% | +3.3% |
| GEO GEO | United States | $3.66B | +28% | +15% | 12% | 13.5× | 6.8% | +2.3% |
| Hui Lyu Ecological Technology Groups 001267.SZ | China | $2.61B | -59% | +90% | 10% | 71.6× | n/a | n/a |
| Alsok 2331.T | Japan | $3.79B | -1% | +7% | 8% | 13.7× | -6.0% | +4.9% |
| CECEP Environmental Protection 300140.SZ | China | $2.51B | -18% | -2% | 23% | n/a | -1.2% | +26.0% |
| Visional 4194.T | Japan | $2.51B | +32% | +24% | 25% | 20.2× | -2.4% | +28.2% |
| KWS SAAT SE & Co KGaA KWS.DE | Germany | $2.48B | -12% | -3% | 15% | 13.2× | -8.2% | +4.4% |
ABM Industries reported $287M of remaining performance obligations at 31 Jul 2026, up 5% from a year earlier and up 29% from the previous quarter. That is 0.0 years of trailing revenue already under contract. Book-to-bill last quarter: 1.03.