NASDAQ:CTAS - Cintas Stock Price, News & Analysis

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

Cintas announced an annual dividend on Tuesday, October 30th. Stockholders of record on Friday, November 9th will be given 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 a positive change from Cintas's previous annual dividend of $1.62. View Cintas' Dividend History.

Cintas Co. (NASDAQ:CTAS) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, July, 16th. The business services provider reported $2.07 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate 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 return on equity of 26.77% and a net margin of 12.80%. The business's revenue was up 7.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $1.77 earnings per share. 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 earnings per share 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 analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Cintas' shares. Their predictions range from $195.00 to $287.00. On average, they expect Cintas' share price to reach $237.50 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 7.2%. 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 been trending positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. 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 2.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the business services provider a news buzz of 6.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Cintas.

Cintas saw a increase in short interest in July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,002,900 shares, an increase of 7.6% from the June 30th total of 2,791,900 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 540,400 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 5.6 days. Currently, 3.6% of the company's 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), Netflix (NFLX), Mastercard (MA), Boeing (BA), salesforce.com (CRM), NVIDIA (NVDA), Paypal (PYPL), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Adobe (ADBE) and 3M (MMM).

Cintas' stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of CTAS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $256.04.

Cintas has a market capitalization of $26.24 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]