Unifirst Corp (UNF)

• Market cap: $3.31B
• 1 day: 0.56%
• 5 days: 4.28%
• 1 month: 2.58%
• 3 months: -20.40%
• 6 months: -4.05%
• Year to date: 4.74%
• 1 year: 9.48%
• 5 years: 5.16%
• 10 years: 53.30%
• Sector: Industrials
• Industry: Specialty Business Services

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 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

353% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $154K | Put options by funds: $34K

42% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 47 | Existing positions closed: 33

32% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 107 | Existing positions reduced: 81

3% more funds holding

Funds holding: 264 [Q3] → 273 (+9) [Q4]

2.16% more ownership

Funds ownership: 94.89% [Q3] → 97.05% (+2.16%) [Q4]

0% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 1 [Q3] → 1 (+0) [Q4]

12% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $2.84B [Q3] → $2.5B (-$343M) [Q4]

Research analyst outlook

3 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $152 15% downside
• Avg. target: $182 2% upside
• High target: $197 10% upside

3 analyst ratings

• positive: 0 0%
• neutral: 2 67%
• negative: 1 33%

Barclays Manav Patnaik 51% 1-year accuracy 19 / 37 met price target	15% downside $152	Underweight Downgraded	4 Apr 2025
UBS Joshua Chan 35% 1-year accuracy 6 / 17 met price target	10% upside $196	Neutral Maintained	3 Apr 2025
Baird Andrew Wittmann 35% 1-year accuracy 11 / 31 met price target	10% upside $197	Neutral Maintained	3 Apr 2025