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Cintas Corporation (CTAS) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

The Closelooknet read

Cintas supplies uniforms and other work garments on a rental and service basis to businesses across the United States, Canada and Latin America, along with facility items such as mats, mops and shop towels. It also sells first aid and safety products, fire protection equipment, workplace water services and restroom supplies, reaching customers through local delivery routes and distribution networks.

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Our record on CTAS

Every scored call, pick and trade this diary has made on Cintas Corporation, with the outcome where it is known.

Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for CTAS, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Versus its index HALO Growth 100 — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelooknet index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

HALO Growth 100 · as of 2026-11-03

DayWeekMonth3 months
CTAS−0.5%+4.2%+14.5%+11.1%
Grid, Industrial & Specialty Materials−0.1%+3.8%+0.4%—
HALO Growth 100+0.4%+1.8%+0.9%—

Against the index: 2.4 pts ahead on the week, 13.6 pts ahead on the month; against its Grid, Industrial & Specialty Materials sleeve 14.1 pts ahead on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet 7 pieces · newest: Morning 10, “Bonds — the long end breaks: 30-year at 5.56%, gold -3.9%; MongoDB sinks 18% as Meta moves in” (2026-09-29)

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where CTAS appears in the diary — 7 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Dailies

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 45/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 200-day averageEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-11-03
  • Factor regime Defensive rotation — low-vol leading, regime-change watchMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): below its 50-day trend, 76th percentile of the window, -20.6% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-11-02
  • Sector × region Industrials in US: +2.0% week · +0.7% month · −7.8% quarter · −0.8% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLI.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-11-03
  • Sovereign pressure Index -1.63 · down 2.22 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-11-02
How it trades on rate days beta 0.47 to TLT · on the worst bond days it held up better than the market

How it trades on rate days

How CTAS has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.47 — tends to move with bonds for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Cintas Corporation moved 0.47% on average · correlation 0.19 · higher than 41% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.75 more rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days +0.03% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days +2.97% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against HALO Growth 100 · Grid, Industrial & Specialty Materials · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

HALO Growth 100 · Grid, Industrial & Specialty Materials

Switchgear, transformers, grid-tied power kit, specialty chemicals. The physical layer beneath every digital build-out.

Compared against CTAS on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Cintas Corporation

CTAS in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Cintas supplies uniforms and other work garments on a rental and service basis to businesses across the United States, Canada and Latin America, along with facility items such as mats, mops and shop towels. It also sells first aid and safety products, fire protection equipment, workplace water services and restroom supplies, reaching customers through local delivery routes and distribution networks. Its clients range from small service firms to large corporations across gaming, hospitality, healthcare, automotive, government and manufacturing. It is based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Where it sits in the stack
Cintas has no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index; it sits in HALO Growth 100, our growth index outside the megacaps, inside the Grid, Industrial & Specialty Materials sleeve. That sleeve gathers the physical infrastructure Closelooknet sees beneath digital build-out, though Cintas's own business is uniform rental and facility services rather than power equipment or materials.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group places Cintas within HALO Growth 100's Grid, Industrial & Specialty Materials sleeve, alongside Schneider Electric, Linde, Sika, Quanta Services, PACCAR, Deere and Ecolab, names Closelooknet treats as the physical layer beneath digital build-out. The market's more direct comparison is UniFirst, the other large uniform-rental operator.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
Cintas holds a seat in HALO Growth 100 and in the Nasdaq-100. It carries a Closelooknet score across three modules, with quality the strongest reading and valuation the weakest; no diary edition has quoted it yet.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether Cintas's valuation reading moves relative to the grid and materials names it sits beside in HALO Growth 100, since that gap is what separates a services business from the infrastructure sleeve it has been grouped with.

Cintas Corporation (CTAS) trades on US exchanges, classified under Industrials. Constituent of HALO Growth 100.

The Closelooknet company score reads 58/100 composite (momentum 86, quality 76, valuation 20) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

The Street on this name 3 analyst actions on the wire · latest: price target by BofA Securities, 2026-10-29 · last print 2026-09-23

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for CTAS from the Closelooknet wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target BofA Securities — target 232 Target set to $232 (+9% to spot) 2026-10-29
  • Price target Argus — target 240 from 230 Target raised to $240 from $230 (+21.9% to spot) 2026-09-29
  • Price target Baird — target 222 from 214 Target raised to $222 from $214 (+15.6% to spot) 2026-09-24
  • Latest print EPS 1.39 against 1.35 expected — a +3.0% beat 2026-09-23

3 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 3 target changes. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.84%, quarterly · buybacks 952 m USD in FY2026

Dividends and capital return

What CTAS pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 1.87 USD per share · a 0.84% yield on the 2026-11-03 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-11-03
  • Change on the year +15.4% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 1.62 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.52 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-14
  • By calendar year 2024: 0.39 USD (partial) · 2025: 1.68 USD · 2026: 1.42 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2024-11-15
  • Dividends paid, FY2026 701 m USD 38% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2026 952 m USD 1.1% of today's market value
  • Share count −1.0% in FY2026 128 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 1.65 bn USD · 88% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-11-04

Quick answers

What is Cintas Corporation (CTAS)?

Cintas Corporation trades as CTAS on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Industrials in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-11-04.

Is CTAS in a Closelooknet index?

Yes — Cintas Corporation is a constituent of HALO Growth 100, as of 2026-11-04.

What is Cintas Corporation's Closelooknet composite score?

58 out of 100, with momentum 86, quality 76 and valuation 20 sub-scores, as of 2026-11-04. Scores are Closelooknet's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

What is Cintas Corporation's earnings print record?

Across the 11 prints Closelooknet covers, Cintas Corporation beat EPS estimates 9 times and revenue estimates 10 times; the three-day reactions split 2 up, 8 flat and 1 down (moves beyond ±3%), as of the 2026-09-20 card. The full print-record card carries the per-print history.

Where does CTAS trade against its moving averages?

Cintas Corporation trades 9.7% above its 50-day and 18.1% above its 200-day moving average (5.6% above its 20-day). As of 2026-11-02 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is CTAS doing against its Closelooknet index?

Over the past month Cintas Corporation is +14.5% against +0.9% for the HALO Growth 100 — 13.6 points ahead of its index, as of 2026-11-03. Its Grid, Industrial & Specialty Materials sleeve is +0.4% over the same month. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

How does Cintas Corporation compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (HALO Growth 100 · Grid, Industrial & Specialty Materials), Cintas Corporation (CTAS) sits 0.8% below its 52-week high, 9.7% above its 50-day average; Fastenal Company (FAST) is 1.4% below, Copart Inc (CPRT) is 30.4% below, Linde plc Ordinary Shares (LIN) is 5.2% below, as of 2026-11-02. Put any of them next to CTAS in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

How does Cintas Corporation trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Cintas Corporation had a beta of 0.47 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it tends to move with bonds, higher than 41% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved +0.03% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. As of 2026-11-03; The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelooknet written about Cintas Corporation?

Cintas Corporation appears in 7 Closelooknet pieces as of 2026-11-04, most recently Morning 10: Bonds — the long end breaks: 30-year at 5.56%, gold -3.9%; MongoDB sinks 18% as Meta moves in (2026-09-29); Morning 10: Memory — Samsung and SK Hynix drop 4% as Seoul reopens, storage follows; Nasdaq futures slip (2026-09-28); Morning 10: Nasdaq - a second record close as memory jumps 5-7% and banks, card networks and software are sold (2026-09-23). What Closelooknet said most recently: Today: Costco and BlackBerry scored at the close; Cintas was paid +4.5%; futures -0.3% (S&P) and -0.4% (Nasdaq) (Morning 10, 2026-09-29). The "Mentioned on Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does Cintas Corporation do?

Cintas supplies uniforms and other work garments on a rental and service basis to businesses across the United States, Canada and Latin America, along with facility items such as mats, mops and shop towels. It also sells first aid and safety products, fire protection equipment, workplace water services and restroom supplies, reaching customers through local delivery routes and distribution networks. Its clients range from small service firms to large corporations across gaming, hospitality, healthcare, automotive, government and manufacturing. Closelooknet's peer group places Cintas within HALO Growth 100's Grid, Industrial & Specialty Materials sleeve, alongside Schneider Electric, Linde, Sika, Quanta Services, PACCAR, Deere and Ecolab, names Closelooknet treats as the physical layer beneath digital build-out. The market's more direct comparison is UniFirst, the other large uniform-rental operator. (Company snapshot of 2026-09-17.)

Where does Cintas Corporation sit in the AI build-out?

Cintas has no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index; it sits in HALO Growth 100, our growth index outside the megacaps, inside the Grid, Industrial & Specialty Materials sleeve. That sleeve gathers the physical infrastructure Closelooknet sees beneath digital build-out, though Cintas's own business is uniform rental and facility services rather than power equipment or materials. Cintas holds a seat in HALO Growth 100 and in the Nasdaq-100. It carries a Closelooknet score across three modules, with quality the strongest reading and valuation the weakest; no diary edition has quoted it yet. (Company snapshot of 2026-09-17.)

Does Cintas Corporation pay a dividend?

Cintas Corporation has paid 1.87 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 0.84% on the 2026-11-03 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.52 USD on 2026-08-14. In fiscal 2026 the company paid 701 m USD in dividends and bought back 952 m USD of its own shares, 88% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 1.0% over the fiscal year. As of 2026-11-03; the "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What has Wall Street done on Cintas Corporation recently?

The most recent analyst action on Cintas Corporation on the Closelooknet wire is a price target by BofA Securities on 2026-10-29 (target 232). 3 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 3 target changes. Its latest earnings print on the wire, 2026-09-23: EPS 1.39 against 1.35 expected — a +3.0% beat. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelooknet readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

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