Cintas offers you strong rebound potential

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Cintas investors already expect the COVID-19 pandemic to hurt demand for the company’s uniform services, particularly from restaurants and hotels. However, invests will benefit from higher demand for uniforms, including scrubs, from hospitals and healthcare providers. That should help offset reduced demand elsewhere. The outbreak should also spur the company’s clients to spend more on its cleaning and first-aid products. CINTAS CORP. $192 remains a buy for aggressive investors. The company (Nasdaq symbol CTAS; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 104.0 million; Market cap: $20.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.7; Dividend yield: 1.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.cintas.com) designs and makes uniforms, then sells them to businesses, mainly in North America. It also offers related products and services such as office cleaning and first-aid kits. Cintas investors continue to benefit from its 2017 purchase of uniform supplier G&K Services for $2.2 billion. For its fiscal 2020 third quarter, ended February 29, 2020, Cintas’s revenue gained 7.6%, to $1.81 billion from $1.68 billion a year earlier. If…