Unifirst CorpUNF
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
3 analyst ratings
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 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 14 articles about UNF published over the past 30 days
