Cintas Corporation
At today's price, Cintas Corporation (CTAS) is priced for +27.0% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
At $170.91 (as of June 27, 2026) the price pays about 28x company-wide operating income, which implies roughly 25% annual operating-profit growth for five years. That pace runs well above what Cintas has actually delivered, and only about 30% of comparable fast-growers sustained it that long. The market is paying for compounding quality the standard frames structurally cannot capture, which is the whole question on a name this richly valued. The business itself is exceptional: a 23% operating
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1,392 institutional managers reported holding CTAS in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 63% of the company; the top 10 hold 30%. 107 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 12.1M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 3% of shares outstanding (5.4 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
CTAS has cut its share count 3.2% over the past five years, spending $4.49B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has for 15 years running, raised 3 years straight; the current rate is $1.56 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $1.66B in dividends and $2.57B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at CTAS over the trailing three years: 2025: 1 buy totaling $267k. 14 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
CTAS's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-28 | +0.7% | -4.3% |
| 2023-10-06 | -4.8% | +12.2% |
| 2024-01-09 | +7.5% | +7.2% |
| 2024-04-06 | +8.5% | +1.3% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
CTAS's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-15 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-06-12 (items 8.01); 2026-03-31 (items 1.01, 1.02, 2.03, 9.01); 2026-03-25 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-03-11 (items 1.01, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: July 3, 2026
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