NASDAQ:CTAS - Cintas Stock Price, Forecast & News

Cintas trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "CTAS."

Cintas announced an annual dividend on Tuesday, October 29th. Stockholders of record on Friday, November 8th will be given a dividend of $2.55 per share on Friday, December 6th. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, November 7th. View Cintas' Dividend History.

Cintas announced that its board has approved a stock repurchase program on Tuesday, October 29th 2019, which permits the company to repurchase $1,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to repurchase up to 3.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are often a sign that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Cintas Co. (NASDAQ:CTAS) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, September, 24th. The business services provider reported $2.32 EPS for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $2.15 by $0.17. The business services provider had revenue of $1.81 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.79 billion. Cintas had a return on equity of 28.61% and a net margin of 13.18%. The firm's revenue was up 6.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $1.93 earnings per share. View Cintas' Earnings History.

Cintas is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, December 17th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Cintas.

Cintas will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, December 17th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Cintas updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Tuesday, September, 24th. The company provided EPS guidance of $8.47-8.57 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $8.47. The company issued revenue guidance of $7.28-7.32 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $7.30 billion.

12 brokers have issued 12 month target prices for Cintas' stock. Their forecasts range from $223.00 to $308.00. On average, they expect Cintas' stock price to reach $265.20 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 2.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Cintas.

12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Cintas in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Cintas.

News stories about CTAS stock have trended negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Cintas earned a daily sentiment score of -3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the business services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Cintas.

Some companies that are related to Cintas include Copart (CPRT), Iron Mountain (IRM), UniFirst (UNF), KAR Auction Services (KAR), McGrath RentCorp (MGRC), Healthcare Services Group (HCSG), Mobile Mini (MINI), Viad (VVI), Performant Financial (PFMT) and Schawk (SGK).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Cintas investors own include Mastercard (MA), Visa (V), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), 3M (MMM), Netflix (NFLX), Abbott Laboratories (ABT), salesforce.com (CRM), NVIDIA (NVDA), Boeing (BA) and Walt Disney (DIS).

Cintas' stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (3.73%), Congress Asset Management Co. MA (0.72%), Select Equity Group L.P. (0.40%), Pictet Asset Management Ltd. (0.39%), Stifel Financial Corp (0.38%) and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.36%). Company insiders that own Cintas stock include James Phillip Holloman, Joseph Scaminace, Michael Lawrence Thompson, Ronald W Tysoe and Thomas E Frooman. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Cintas.

CTAS stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State Street Corp, Ardevora Asset Management LLP, Artemis Investment Management LLP, Select Equity Group L.P., Congress Asset Management Co. MA, Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, Castleark Management LLC and Pictet Asset Management Ltd.. Company insiders that have sold Cintas company stock in the last year include Joseph Scaminace, Michael Lawrence Thompson, Ronald W Tysoe and Thomas E Frooman. View Insider Buying and Selling for Cintas.

CTAS stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Millennium Management LLC, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, Squarepoint Ops LLC, California Public Employees Retirement System, CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC, Point72 Asset Management L.P. and Man Group plc. View Insider Buying and Selling for Cintas.

Shares of CTAS can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of CTAS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $258.05.

Cintas has a market capitalization of $26.71 billion and generates $6.89 billion in revenue each year. The business services provider earns $884.98 million in net income (profit) each year or $7.60 on an earnings per share basis. Cintas employs 45,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Cintas.

The official website for Cintas is http://www.cintas.com/.

Cintas' mailing address is 6800 CINTAS BOULEVARD; P O BOX 625737, CINCINNATI OH, 45262. The business services provider can be reached via phone at 513-459-1200 or via email at [email protected]