UNF
Outperforming without a clear catalyst yet
- UNF +2.85% on the last session vs SPY +0.02%: +2.8 pts of stock-specific move.
- Earnings Wed before the open (date not confirmed): EPS $2.09 expected (1 analysts).
- Market backdrop (Today): Core PPI m/m 1.3% vs 0.3% expected (hotter); Core Retail Sales m/m 0.9% vs 0.6% expected (stronger); S&P futures -0.08%, 10-year yield -3bp in the 30 minutes after.
Bargain & stretch prices
Prices UNF only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
261.03 +1.1% reached 3 in 10 days reached today |
264.71 +2.6% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
| Now | 265.44 · prior close 258.08 | |
| Bargain buy side |
255.17 -1.1% reached 3 in 10 days |
251.61 -2.5% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
More patient or more eager
| Bargain | Reached | Stretch | Reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | ||||
| Patient | 254.23 | 2 in 10 days | 261.99 | 2 in 10 days |
| Balanced | 255.17 | 3 in 10 days | 261.03 | 3 in 10 days |
| Eager | 256.05 | 4 in 10 days | 260.13 | 5 in 10 days |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 249.55 | 2 in 10 weeks | 266.91 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 251.61 | 3 in 10 weeks | 264.71 | 3 in 10 weeks |
| Eager | 253.55 | 4 in 10 weeks | 262.69 | 5 in 10 weeks |
"3 in 10 days" means the price was reached on about 3 of every 10 days like this one. Patient prices are further away and come less often; eager ones are closer and come more often. From UNF's daily swings (about 1.2% a day lately), anchored on the Oct 14 close. The odds were measured on 10 years of S&P 500 prices (they move about 3 points from year to year with the market: bargain prices come more often in falling years, stretch prices in rising ones), and where a situation below changed them consistently (in at least 8 of 10 years), they are adjusted and marked. In those tests, waiting for the bargain price did no better on average than buying at the close: what you save when it comes, you pay when it doesn't.
Situations on the Oct 14 close
Big drop and big gain: among UNF's own worst or best 10% of daily moves, as on the Aftermath tab. The past times are history: in our tests, how a stock did after its earlier times did not predict the next one, and across the S&P 500 none of these situations leaned up or down except, weakly, an all-time high followed by a big drop. Not advice.
Price ladder
| All-time and 52-week closing high Jul 29, 2026 |
300.79 +13.3% |
| 50-day average | 271.79 +2.4% |
| Now | 265.44 |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 264.71 -0.3% |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
258.08 -2.8% |
| 200-day average | 256.35 -3.4% |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 251.61 -5.2% |
| 52-week closing low Nov 6, 2025 |
149.11 -43.8% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 43 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.