CTAS Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Cintas | NASDAQ:CTAS)

Cintas has roots tracing back to 1929, during which the Farmer family cleaned and re-sold dirty rags to manufacturing plants in Ohio. The firm has grown its business organically and through acquisitions, and today Cintas acts as a one-stop outsourcing partner for businesses. Cintas will design, manufacture, collect, and clean every employee uniform for a small weekly sum, taking on the upfront capital expense itself. In the same stop, Cintas can also replace soiled or depleted mats, mops, trash liners, towels, first aid, fire, and cleaning products. Businesses value an outsourcing partner like Cintas as it simplifies operations and leaves noncore tasks with high regulatory standards in the hands of professionals.

Cintas trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol CTAS.

As of February 20, 2025, CTAS stock price declined to $205.05 with 363,020 million shares trading.

CTAS has a beta of 1.02, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. CTAS has a correlation of 0.30 to the broad based SPY ETF.

CTAS has a market cap of $82.74 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Cintas reported $3 billion in Revenue and $1.09 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $2 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.07.

In the last 3 years, CTAS traded as high as $228.12 and as low as $85.97.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that CTAS belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, QQQ, SPY, IVV.

CTAS has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +34.4% while the SPY ETF gained +23.2%. However, in the short term, CTAS had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning -5.7% vs +3.4% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, CTAS shares have fared better than the market returning +1.9% compared to SPY +0.6%.

CTAS support price is $205.63 and resistance is $210.65 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that CTAS shares will trade within this expected range on the day.