NASDAQ:CTASCintas Stock Price, Forecast & News

Cintas' stock was trading at $250.41 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, CTAS stock has increased by 20.6% and is now trading at $301.87.
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11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Cintas in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 6 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold."
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Cintas is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, September 22nd 2020.
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Cintas Co. (NASDAQ:CTAS) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July, 23rd. The business services provider reported $1.35 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.22 by $0.13. The business services provider had revenue of $1.62 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.56 billion. Cintas had a return on equity of 27.57% and a net margin of 12.36%. Cintas's quarterly revenue was down 9.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $2.07 earnings per share.
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Cintas declared an annual dividend on Tuesday, October 29th. Stockholders of record on Friday, November 8th will be paid a dividend of $2.55 per share on Friday, December 6th. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, November 7th.
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Cintas declared that its board has approved a stock buyback plan on Tuesday, October 29th 2019, which authorizes the company to repurchase $1,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to purchase up to 3.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are often an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Cintas updated its first quarter 2021 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Thursday, July, 23rd. The company provided EPS guidance of 2.00-2.20 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $1.53. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.675-1.7 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.61 billion.

11 analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Cintas' shares. Their forecasts range from $175.00 to $347.00. On average, they anticipate Cintas' share price to reach $266.33 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 11.8%.
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News coverage about CTAS stock has been trending negative recently, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Cintas earned a news impact score of -2.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the business services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future.
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Cintas saw a decrease in short interest in the month of July. As of July 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,970,000 shares, a decrease of 7.9% from the June 30th total of 2,140,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 691,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.9 days. Approximately 2.2% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Cintas investors own include Visa (V), Mastercard (MA), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), NVIDIA (NVDA), Home Depot (HD), Walt Disney (DIS), Adobe (ADBE), Alibaba Group (BABA), Medtronic (MDT) and Netflix (NFLX).

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

Cintas' stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Congress Asset Management Co. MA (0.71%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.59%), Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC (0.33%), Ardevora Asset Management LLP (0.16%), UBS Group AG (0.14%) and New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.12%). Company insiders that own Cintas stock include Joseph Scaminace, Michael Lawrence Thompson, Ronald W Tysoe and Thomas E Frooman.
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CTAS stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC, First Trust Advisors LP, Robecosam AG, Railway Pension Investments Ltd, Ardevora Asset Management LLP, UBS Group AG, and Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank .
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CTAS stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., Polaris Greystone Financial Group LLC, CIBC Asset Management Inc, Mn Services Vermogensbeheer B.V., Randolph Co Inc, Grimes & Company Inc., Envestnet Asset Management Inc., and SG Americas Securities LLC.
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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 $301.87.

Cintas has a market capitalization of $31.24 billion and generates $7.09 billion in revenue each year. The business services provider earns $876.04 million in net income (profit) each year or $8.11 on an earnings per share basis. Cintas employs 40,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for Cintas is 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]