TacticScaleWhat Aramark Does & How It Makes Money (ARMK)
Updated October 2026 · reflects Aramark's latest reported financials
Outsourced food and facilities services provider for institutions and venues. Aramark earns revenue from service contracts with institutional clients to manage their food and facilities operations, plus sales of food, beverages, merchandise and lodging to consumers at client sites such as stadiums and parks.
How Aramark makes money
Aramark earns revenue from service contracts with institutional clients to manage their food and facilities operations, plus sales of food, beverages, merchandise and lodging to consumers at client sites such as stadiums and parks.
What Aramark does
Aramark, founded in 1959 and based in Philadelphia, is a large outsourced food and facilities services provider. It serves education, healthcare, business and industry, sports, leisure, and corrections clients through two segments: Food and Support Services United States and Food and Support Services International. On the food side it offers dining, catering, on-site restaurants, convenience retail, vending, concessions and patient nutrition. On the facilities side it provides custodial, plant operations and maintenance, energy management, groundskeeping, transportation and capital project management. It also runs commissaries, laundry facilities and property rooms for correctional institutions, and offers retail, recreational and lodging services at leisure venues.
Products & services
- Dining and food service management
- Sports and entertainment concessions and catering
- Healthcare patient food and nutrition services
- Facility management and custodial services
- Correctional food and commissary services
- Beverage and vending services
What is Aramark worth?
On an owner-earnings DCF, Aramark's most-likely value is about $75 versus a recent price near $55 (37% below fair value). But TacticScale only calls a stock undervalued when the price sits below its conservative no-growth floor (~$37) with a margin of safety — so the honest verdict here is “Fairly priced — no edge.” Fair value earns its keep only at the extremes, not in the wide middle.
Price sits in the normal range — fair value isn't actionable here; it earns its keep only when price drops below the no-growth floor, or runs to roughly double the optimistic case.
Analysis, not advice. Fair value is a margin-of-safety estimate from a deterministic owner-earnings DCF, not a price target or recommendation. See the full breakdown →
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