UniFirst Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:UNF)

UniFirst trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "UNF."

UniFirst announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, June 27th. Shareholders of record on Friday, September 6th will be given a dividend of $0.1125 per share on Friday, September 27th. This represents a $0.45 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.23%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 5th. View UniFirst's Dividend History.

UniFirst declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a share buyback program on Thursday, January 3rd 2019, which allows the company to repurchase $100,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to buy up to 3.9% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are often a sign that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

UniFirst Corp (NYSE:UNF) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, June, 26th. The textile maker reported $2.46 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.70 by $0.76. The textile maker earned $453.72 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $441.70 million. UniFirst had a return on equity of 9.67% and a net margin of 9.21%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 6.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $1.85 EPS. View UniFirst's Earnings History.

UniFirst is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, October 23rd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for UniFirst.

UniFirst will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, October 23rd at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

UniFirst updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Wednesday, June, 26th. The company provided EPS guidance of $8.75-8.85 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $7.95. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.802-1.809 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.79 billion.

2 brokerages have issued twelve-month price targets for UniFirst's shares. Their predictions range from $152.00 to $183.00. On average, they expect UniFirst's share price to reach $167.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 13.6%. View Analyst Price Targets for UniFirst.

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

News coverage about UNF stock has been trending somewhat negative this week, according to InfoTrie. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring 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. UniFirst earned a media sentiment score of -1.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave press coverage about the textile maker 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 next few days. View News Stories for UniFirst.

UniFirst saw a decrease in short interest during the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 191,200 shares, a decrease of 6.0% from the July 31st total of 203,500 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 121,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.6 days. Currently, 1.3% of the company's shares are sold short. View UniFirst's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other UniFirst investors own include Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP), Diplomat Pharmacy (DPLO), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Costco Wholesale (COST), Netflix (NFLX), xG Technology (XGTI), Abbott Laboratories (ABT), Accenture (ACN), Domino's Pizza (DPZ) and Universal Health Services (UHS).

UniFirst's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (11.67%), BlackRock Inc. (11.67%), Vanguard Group Inc. (8.38%), Janus Henderson Group PLC (3.78%), Janus Henderson Group PLC (3.78%) and Victory Capital Management Inc. (2.68%). Company insiders that own UniFirst stock include Cecelia Levenstein, Cynthia Croatti, David A Difillippo, David Martin Katz, Kathleen M Camilli, Michael A Croatti, Michael Iandoli, Steven S Sintros, The Ronald D Croatti Trust - 1 and William Masters Ross. View Institutional Ownership Trends for UniFirst.

UNF stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Renaissance Technologies LLC, Westwood Holdings Group Inc., Citadel Advisors LLC, Victory Capital Management Inc., Ellis Investment Partners LLC, Echo Street Capital Management LLC, Atlanta Capital Management Co. L L C and BlackRock Inc.. Company insiders that have sold UniFirst company stock in the last year include Cecelia Levenstein, Cynthia Croatti, David A Difillippo, David Martin Katz, Michael A Croatti, Michael Iandoli, The Ronald D Croatti Trust - 1 and William Masters Ross. View Insider Buying and Selling for UniFirst.

UNF stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Man Group plc, Prudential Financial Inc., Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co., Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Bessemer Group Inc., Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co., Bank of America Corp DE and Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD. View Insider Buying and Selling for UniFirst.

Shares of UNF 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 UNF stock can currently be purchased for approximately $193.8050.

UniFirst has a market capitalization of $3.68 billion and generates $1.70 billion in revenue each year. The textile maker earns $163.89 million in net income (profit) each year or $7.45 on an earnings per share basis. UniFirst employs 14,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About UniFirst.

The official website for UniFirst is http://www.unifirst.com/.

UniFirst's mailing address is 68 JONSPIN RD, WILMINGTON MA, 01887. The textile maker can be reached via phone at 978-658-8888 or via email at [email protected]