President and CEO, 10% Owner of UniFirst Corp. (UNF) Ronald D Croatti sells 4,200 shares of UNF on 01/12/2012 at an average price of $61.68 a share.
Unifirst Corp. has a market cap of $1.23 billion; its shares were traded at around $61.85 with a P/E ratio of 15.7 and P/S ratio of 1.1. The dividend yield of Unifirst Corp. stocks is 0.3%. Unifirst Corp. had an annual average earning growth of 9.7% over the past 10 years. GuruFocus rated Unifirst Corp. the business predictability rank of 4.5-star.
Senior VP of Operations David A Difillippo sold 3,500 shares of UNF stock on 07/19/2011 at the average price of 57.68. David A Difillippo owns at least 255 shares after this. The price of the stock has increased by 7.23% since.
Director Anthony F Difillippo sold 3,500 shares of UNF stock on 07/19/2011 at the average price of 57.68. Anthony F Difillippo owns at least 29,575 shares after this. The price of the stock has increased by 7.23% since.
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