Cintas Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:CTAS)

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

Cintas announced an annual dividend on Tuesday, October 30th. Investors of record on Friday, November 9th will be paid a dividend of $2.05 per share on Friday, December 7th. This represents a 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) issued its earnings results on Tuesday, July, 16th. The business services provider reported $2.07 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.94 by $0.13. The business services provider earned $1.79 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate 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% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior 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 will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, September 24th 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 issued an update on its FY20 earnings guidance on Tuesday, July, 16th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $8.30-8.45 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus 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 brokers have issued 12 month price targets for Cintas' shares. Their predictions range from $195.00 to $287.00. On average, they anticipate Cintas' stock price to reach $237.50 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 6.9%. 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.

News stories about CTAS stock have trended negative this week, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Cintas earned a coverage optimism score of -2.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the business services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Cintas.

Cintas saw a drop in short interest in August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 2,769,400 shares, a drop of 7.8% from the July 31st total of 3,002,900 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 553,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 5.0 days. Currently, 3.4% of the company's shares 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), Boeing (BA), salesforce.com (CRM), Adobe (ADBE), NVIDIA (NVDA), Paypal (PYPL), 3M (MMM) and Alibaba Group (BABA).

Cintas' stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders 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 $254.97.

Cintas has a market capitalization of $26.13 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]