NASDAQ:CTAS - Cintas Stock Price, News & Analysis

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

Cintas declared an annual dividend on Tuesday, October 30th. Stockholders of record on Friday, November 9th will be paid a dividend of $2.05 per share on Friday, December 7th. This represents a dividend yield of 1.13%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, November 8th. This is an increase from Cintas's previous annual dividend of $1.62. View Cintas' Dividend History.

Cintas Co. (NASDAQ:CTAS) released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, July, 16th. The business services provider reported $2.07 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.94 by $0.13. The business services provider had revenue of $1.79 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.78 billion. Cintas had a net margin of 12.80% and a return on equity of 26.77%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 7.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $1.77 EPS. View Cintas' Earnings History.

Cintas is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, September 24th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Cintas.

Cintas updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Tuesday, July, 16th. The company provided EPS guidance of $8.30-8.45 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $8.32. The company issued revenue guidance of $7.24-7.31 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $7.28 billion.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Cintas' shares. Their forecasts range from $195.00 to $287.00. On average, they anticipate Cintas' share price to reach $237.50 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 5.9%. View Analyst Price Targets for Cintas.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Cintas in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Cintas.

Media coverage about CTAS stock has been trending negative on Thursday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm identifies negative and positive media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Cintas earned a news impact score of -2.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the business services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Cintas.

Cintas saw a decrease in short interest in the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 2,769,400 shares, a decrease of 7.8% from the July 31st total of 3,002,900 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 553,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 5.0 days. Approximately 3.4% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Cintas' Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Cintas include VF (VFC), Ralph Lauren (RL), PVH (PVH), Kontoor Brands (KTB), Oxford Industries (OXM) and Naked Brand Group (NAKD).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Cintas investors own include Visa (V), Mastercard (MA), Netflix (NFLX), salesforce.com (CRM), Boeing (BA), Adobe (ADBE), NVIDIA (NVDA), Paypal (PYPL), 3M (MMM) and Alibaba Group (BABA).

Cintas' stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (9.79%), BlackRock Inc. (5.60%), BlackRock Inc. (5.60%), Invesco Ltd. (3.07%), Brown Advisory Inc. (1.78%) and Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (1.30%). 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 Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Bank of America Corp DE, Natixis, Natixis, TimesSquare Capital Management LLC, Texas Yale Capital Corp., Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. and Nicholas Company Inc.. 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 Invesco Ltd., Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Vanguard Group Inc., AMI Asset Management Corp, Schroder Investment Management Group, Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD, BlackRock Inc. and BlackRock Inc.. 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 $252.31.

Cintas has a market capitalization of $25.86 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]