CTAS - Cintas Corporation

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    Cintas Corporation (CTAS) is a provider of corporate identity uniforms through rental and sales programs, as well as a provider of related business services, including entrance mats, restroom cleaning services and supplies, carpet and tile cleaning services, first aid and safety services and fire protection products and services. Its segments include uniform rental and facility services, and first aid and safety services. Its uniform rental and facility service segment offers services, which include rental and servicing of uniforms and other garments, including flame resistant clothing, mats, mops and shop towels, and other ancillary items. Its first aid and safety service segment offers services, which include first aid and safety products and services. Rental processing plants, rental branches, first aid and safety facilities, fire protection facilities, direct sales offices, distribution centers and manufacturing facilities are all utilized by the businesses included in All Other.
     
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    Upcoming dividend information:

    Ex-Div-Date
    : 11/2/16
    Payment Date: 12/2/16
    Dividend: $1.33
    Current Price: $106.45
    Annual Yield: 0.99%
     
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    Gapping down today on news:

    Cintas (CTAS) Misses Q2 Earnings, Updates FY17 Guidance
     
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    Cintas (CTAS) - Economic Bellwether?
    Wed, Sep 25, 2019

    After yesterday's close, Cintas (CTAS) reported an earnings triple play (EPS and revenue beats along with raised guidance) posting record revenues and EPS. Given the nature of its business, which provides a variety of business services including uniform, cleaning, and first aid product distribution, CTAS should provide a reasonable gauge on the US business environment and more specifically, employment. With concerns rising over whether or not a recession is right around the corner, it would be a bit of a head-scratcher to see a company like CTAS post such strong results and trade close to record highs if the economy were in fact plunging into recession.

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    The chart below shows the performance of CTAS since it's IPO with recessions overlaid with gray shading. Given the massive move higher the stock has seen over the last decade, it's hard to see anything in the way of trends related to the performance of CTAs and recessions, but in the charts below, we have looked at each period in more detail.

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    Each chart below shows the performance of CTAS in the year before, during, and year after each of the three prior recessions for which CTAS was a public company. Judging from the last three recessions, the stock's performance has had a mixed track record of anticipating recessions.

    In 1990, CTAS didn't do a very good job anticipating the recession as it peaked right before the recession started. Once the contraction began, though, CTAS bottomed and anticipated the turn in the economy well before it began. While CTAS wasn't a very good leading indicator of the 1990 recession, keep in mind that that slowdown was brought on by an oil price shock (after Iraq invaded Kuwait) that would be impossible to anticipate.

    In 2001, CTAS did a much better job anticipating the recession as it peaked a full four months before the economy turned. It also did a decent job anticipating the turn in the economy as the stock started to rally over two months before the recession ended.

    The performance of CTAS leading up to and after the last recession was probably the best example of it anticipating a recession and the subsequent turn as it was already weak well in advance of the recession's start and bottomed (along with the rest of the market) in March 2009- over three months before the economy turned.

    Judging by these three specific periods, CTAS has not been the best predictor of a looming recession in the past, but one thing it hasn't done in the past is rally leading up to a recession and then continue to rally once the recession starts. Therefore, CTAS continues to build on today's post-earnings gain, it will be hard to argue that the economy is in the early stages of a recession.

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    Still holding this one, up 35% now:cool:
     
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