Look For Institutional Buying In Cintas Corporation (NASDAQ: CTAS)

Cintas Corporation (CTAS) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $204.71, with 3.69 million shares of worth about $754.79 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 0.35% during that period and on March 26, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 5.82%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 403.50M shares, out of which, 343.01M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of 4.25% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -0.54%. Year-to-date (YTD), CTAS shares are showing a performance of 12.05% which increased to 28.07% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $158.10 but also hit the highest price of $228.12 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Cintas Corporation shares is 1.75 million. The stock is currently trading 3.18% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 2.12% for SMA50 and it goes to 2.94% higher than SMA200.

Cintas Corporation (NASDAQ: CTAS) currently have 403.50M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 64.76% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $82.61B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.23. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 49.40, while it has posted earnings per share of $4.14 in the same period. Its PEG reads 4.21 and has Quick Ratio of 0.79 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.66. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for CTAS, volatility over the week remained 2.17% while standing at 2.23% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 14.68% while it is estimated to increase by 10.31% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 11.73% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 13.70% made by the stock over the past 5-years.

Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Citigroup on February 24, 2025 offering a Sell rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $161 to it. Coverage by Wells Fargo stated Cintas Corporation (CTAS) stock as an Underweight in their note to investors on August 13, 2024, suggesting a price target of $735 for the stock. On August 09, 2024, Redburn Atlantic Initiated their recommendations, while on July 19, 2024, Robert W. Baird Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $775. Stock get a Sector perform rating from RBC Capital Mkts on July 15, 2024.

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