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UniFirst Corporation (UNF) short interest & options flow

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UniFirst is no longer trading on its own fundamentals. The dominant fact about this stock right now is a agreed takeover by Cintas, and most of the signals in the data flow directly from that event. Cintas filed a Schedule 13D in March, disclosing an 18.7% stake. That is an activist filing on the SEC's register, the most newsworthy structural fact about UniFirst's…

Latest pulse16 Jul 2026

UNF short interest surged 59% in one week to 5.74% of float, driven by a deliberate positioning jump around July 9–10, yet borrow costs remain negligible at 0.41% with extraordinary availability exceeding 6,000%.

$235.39-2.53% 1d-0.00% 1w-8.79% 1mClose: 13 Nov 2026
Short interest % of float
Rising
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Cost to borrow
Low
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Availability
High
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Market cap
$4.26B
Next earnings
6 Jan 2027
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Key data as of 14 Nov 2026

ORTEX chart of UniFirst Corporation (UNF) share price and short interest (% of free float), six months to November 13, 2026

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