Unifirst Corp
About: UniFirst Corp provides workplace uniforms, protective clothing, and other workplace products and services to businesses in the United States, Canada, and Europe. The U.S. and Canadian Rental and Cleaning segment that accounts for the majority of the company engages in sales rents and sells clothing and non-garment items, and offers a cleaning service that delivers clean uniforms when it picks up dirty or contaminated ones. Manufacturing segment designs and manufactures uniforms and non-garment items. Specialty garments rental and cleaning segment provides specialty garments, non-garments, and cleaning services for nuclear and classroom applications. The First Aid segment provides safety supplies and pill packaging. The Corporate segment consists of various associated costs.
Employees: 16,000
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2024 Q3 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
11% more capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $2.61B [Q2] → $2.91B (+$299M) [Q3]
2% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 98 | Existing positions reduced: 96
0% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 1 [Q2] → 1 (+0) [Q3]
3% less funds holding
Funds holding: 271 [Q2] → 264 (-7) [Q3]
3.82% less ownership
Funds ownership: 101.16% [Q2] → 97.34% (-3.82%) [Q3]
11% less first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 33 | Existing positions closed: 37
32% less call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $457K | Put options by funds: $675K
Research analyst outlook
2 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
2 analyst ratings
UBS Joshua Chan 86% 1-year accuracy 12 / 14 met price target | 6%upside $235 | Neutral Maintained | 9 Jan 2025 |
Baird Andrew Wittmann 81% 1-year accuracy 25 / 31 met price target | 10%downside $200 | Neutral Maintained | 24 Oct 2024 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 15 articles about UNF published over the past 30 days
