Cintas (CTAS) insider buying and selling
Every Table I transaction reported by directors and officers of S&P 500 companies on SEC Form 4 filings (2 business days to file): each row labeled with its official transaction code, nothing filtered out beforehand.
Open-market purchases (code P) are the rare signal, in green; sales (code S) are common and often pre-scheduled (10b5-1). Table II (derivatives) is not included: its prices are exercise prices, not market values. Guide: insider buying.
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Cintas Corporation (CTAS) insider buying and selling: no purchases, 3 sales
34 Form 4 Table I transactions filed with the SEC by Cintas Corporation insiders between 2025-10-31 and 2026-08-12 (15-month history): 0 open-market purchases and 3 sales, plus 31 transactions under other Form 4 codes, broken down one by one below. The largest open-market trade is a sale of $1.9M by Barstad Melanie W. on 2026-07-16.
Cintas insider buying and selling over the last 12 months
Between Oct 21, 2025 and Oct 20, 2026, Cintas insiders filed 3 sales worth $3.6M on the open market, and no purchases.
The biggest seller was Barstad Melanie W. (Director): $1.9M in 1 sale, out of 2 different sellers.
The largest trade of the period was a sale of $1.9M on Jul 16, 2026, by Barstad Melanie W. (Director). Form 4 on sec.gov (0000950103-26-010838).
None of the 3 sales carries the 10b5-1 plan flag on the Form 4 (sales scheduled months ahead).
The last three months show 1 sale, against 1 in the three before. The latest sale from Jul 22, 2026.
Against its sector (Industrials, 75 companies with an insider page on this site), over the same dates the median is 8 sales and 0 purchases on the open market. Cintas has more sales than 11 of the other 74, ranks 58 of 75 by net dollars sold, and 28 of the 75 have at least one purchase.
The 20 most important trades
With no open-market purchases, the table starts with CTAS's sales, largest first. The full history is in the tool above, already searched.
See all 34 CTAS trades in the full history →
| Trade date | Filed | Insider | Role | Amount | Code | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-16 | 2026-07-20 | Barstad Melanie W. | Director | $1.9M | S — Open-market sale | SEC |
| 2026-07-22 | 2026-07-23 | Tysoe Ronald W | Director | $872k | S — Open-market saleForm 4 footnoteF3 The reported price is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions ranging from $199.895 to $199.94. The Reporting Person undertakes to provide full pricing information to the issuer, any security holder of the issuer, or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission upon request. | SEC |
| 2026-04-20 | 2026-04-22 | Tysoe Ronald W | Director | $835k | S — Open-market saleForm 4 footnoteF2 The reported price is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions ranging from $178.82 to $178.97. The Reporting Person undertakes to provide full pricing information to the issuer, any securityholder of the issuer, or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission upon request. | SEC |
| 2026-08-10 | 2026-08-12 | Schneider Todd M. | CEO and Director | $11.7M | A — Grant or awardForm 4 footnoteF1 Restricted shares granted pursuant to Cintas Corporation Equity Compensation Plan. | SEC |
| 2026-08-10 | 2026-08-12 | Schneider Todd M. | CEO and Director | $7.2M | F — Tax withholding (shares surrendered for taxes)Form 4 footnoteF2 Restrictions on restricted shares granted pursuant to Cintas Corporation Equity Compensation Plan previously reported on Form 4 have lapsed. The Reporting Person transferred 35,599 of these shares to satisfy tax withholding. | SEC |
| 2026-08-10 | 2026-08-12 | Farmer Scott D | Executive Chairman | $3.2M | F — Tax withholding (shares surrendered for taxes)Form 4 footnoteF2 Restrictions on restricted shares granted pursuant to Cintas Corporation Equity Compensation Plan previously reported on Form 4 have lapsed. The Reporting Person transferred 15,923 of these shares to satisfy tax withholding. | SEC |
| 2026-08-10 | 2026-08-12 | Rozakis Jim | President & COO | $2.3M | A — Grant or awardForm 4 footnoteF1 Restricted shares granted pursuant to Cintas Corporation Equity Compensation Plan. | SEC |
| 2026-08-10 | 2026-08-12 | Garula Scott | EVP & CFO | $2.2M | A — Grant or awardForm 4 footnoteF1 Restricted shares granted pursuant to Cintas Corporation Equity Compensation Plan. | SEC |
| 2026-08-10 | 2026-08-12 | Denton David Brock | EVP, Secretary & Gen Counsel | $1.2M | A — Grant or awardForm 4 footnoteF1 Restricted shares granted pursuant to Cintas Corporation Equity Compensation Plan. | SEC |
| 2026-08-10 | 2026-08-12 | Rozakis Jim | President & COO | $738k | F — Tax withholding (shares surrendered for taxes)Form 4 footnoteF2 Restrictions on restricted shares granted pursuant to Cintas Corporation Equity Compensation Plan previously reported on Form 4 have lapsed. The Reporting Person transferred 3,643 of these shares to satisfy tax withholding. | SEC |
| 2026-08-10 | 2026-08-12 | Denton David Brock | EVP, Secretary & Gen Counsel | $705k | F — Tax withholding (shares surrendered for taxes)Form 4 footnoteF2 Restrictions on restricted shares granted pursuant to Cintas Corporation Equity Compensation Plan previously reported on Form 4 have lapsed. The Reporting Person transferred 3,479 of these shares to satisfy tax withholding. | SEC |
| 2026-08-10 | 2026-08-12 | Garula Scott | EVP & CFO | $600k | F — Tax withholding (shares surrendered for taxes)Form 4 footnoteF2 Restrictions on restricted shares granted pursuant to Cintas Corporation Equity Compensation Plan previously reported on Form 4 have lapsed. The Reporting Person transferred 2,958 of these shares to satisfy tax withholding. | SEC |
| 2026-04-09 | 2026-04-13 | Coletti Robert E. | Director | $339k | M — Option exerciseForm 4 footnoteF1 On September 4, 2024, Cintas Corporation completed a four-for-one stock split of its common stock. All share amounts and exercise prices have been adjusted to give effect to this stock split. | SEC |
| 2026-07-16 | 2026-07-20 | Barstad Melanie W. | Director | $286k | F — Tax withholding (shares surrendered for taxes) | SEC |
| 2026-07-16 | 2026-07-20 | Barstad Melanie W. | Director | $286k | M — Option exercise2 Form 4 footnotesF1 On September 4, 2024, Cintas Corporation completed a four-for-one stock split of its common stock. All share amounts and stock prices have been adjusted to give effect to this stock split. F2 Represents Stock Options granted pursuant to Cintas Corporation's 2016 Equity Compensation Plan. | SEC |
| 2026-08-10 | 2026-08-12 | Farmer Scott D | Executive Chairman | $168k | A — Grant or awardForm 4 footnoteF1 Restricted shares granted pursuant to Cintas Corporation Equity Compensation Plan. | SEC |
| 2026-04-20 | 2026-04-22 | Tysoe Ronald W | Director | $149k | F — Tax withholding (shares surrendered for taxes) | SEC |
| 2026-04-20 | 2026-04-22 | Tysoe Ronald W | Director | $149k | M — Option exerciseForm 4 footnoteF1 On September 4, 2024, Cintas Corporation completed a four-for-one stock split of its common stock. All share amounts and exercise prices have been adjusted to give effect to this stock split. | SEC |
| 2026-07-22 | 2026-07-23 | Tysoe Ronald W | Director | $137k | F — Tax withholding (shares surrendered for taxes) | SEC |
| 2026-07-22 | 2026-07-23 | Tysoe Ronald W | Director | $137k | M — Option exercise2 Form 4 footnotesF1 On September 4, 2024, Cintas Corporation completed a four-for-one stock split of its common stock. All share amounts and stock prices have been adjusted to give effect to this stock split. F2 Represents Stock Options granted pursuant to Cintas Corporation's 2016 Equity Compensation Plan. | SEC |
The period balance: money in, money out
In the Form 4 filings submitted between Oct 31, 2025 and Aug 12, 2026 there is not one open-market purchase of Cintas Corporation: 3 sales worth $3.6M and zero dollars bought.
Only codes P and S count, where an insider puts in or takes out their own money. A selling balance like Cintas Corporation's is the norm in the S&P 500, where much of the pay comes as stock. It is not a recommendation to buy or sell: it is what was filed.
Every transaction, code by code
| Code | What it means | Trades | Reported amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | Grant or award | 12 | $17.5M |
| F | Tax withholding (shares surrendered for taxes) | 9 | $13.1M |
| G | Gift | 4 | $0 |
| M | Option exercise | 4 | $911k |
| S | Open-market sale | 3 | $3.6M |
| J | Other transaction (explained in the filing) | 2 | $0 |
| Total | Everything filed in the period | 34 | $35.1M |
13 of the 34 rows carry no usable amount on the Form 4: they count as trades and add $0. The code labels come from the SEC index.
Who has traded
Over the 15 months of history, 12 distinct people or entities have filed Cintas Corporation transactions: none bought on the open market and 2 sold. Counted by CIK, the fixed number the SEC gives each filer, and not by name, which each filer types their own way.
| Filer | Role | Transactions | Bought (count) | Sold (count) | Last filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barstad Melanie W. | Director | 4 | — | $1.9M (1) | 2026-07-20 |
| Tysoe Ronald W | Director | 7 | — | $1.7M (2) | 2026-07-23 |
| Coletti Robert E. | Director | 5 | — | — | 2026-04-13 |
| Farmer Scott D | Executive Chairman | 5 | — | — | 2026-08-12 |
| Garula Scott | EVP & CFO | 3 | — | — | 2026-08-12 |
| Denton David Brock | EVP, Secretary & Gen Counsel | 2 | — | — | 2026-08-12 |
| Rozakis Jim | President & COO | 2 | — | — | 2026-08-12 |
| Schneider Todd M. | CEO and Director | 2 | — | — | 2026-08-12 |
Shown here are the 8 who moved the most money, out of 12. The rest are in the full history, one link above. The name links to all their trades, in any company. "Transactions" counts any code; the money, open market only. Role: from their latest filing.
Month by month
By the month the trade was executed, not the month it was filed; months with no trades show zero. The busiest month was Jul 2026: 0 purchases and 2 sales, worth $2.7M. 13 of the 15 months have none.
| Month | Purchases | Amount | Sales | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Sep 2025 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Oct 2025 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Nov 2025 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Dec 2025 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Jan 2026 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Feb 2026 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Mar 2026 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Apr 2026 | 0 | $0 | 1 | $835k |
| May 2026 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Jun 2026 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Jul 2026 | 0 | $0 | 2 | $2.7M |
| Aug 2026 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Sep 2026 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| Oct 2026 | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
The last month may be partial: a Form 4 is filed up to two business days later. The table does not say whether the pattern is good or bad; it says when it happened.
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How to read this data
None of the 3 sales in the table is flagged as scheduled (10b5-1 plan), the kind signed months ahead and executed automatically. Cintas has no open-market purchase (code P) in the history, the most common case in the S&P 500: insiders are already paid in stock. The latest filing is from Aug 12, 2026, and a Form 4 arrives up to two business days after the trade.
16 of the 20 rows in the table carry footnotes from the Form 4 itself, folded into the code column and copied verbatim; a row with no footnote means the filing has none.
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What is behind these trades
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- What the efficiency hypothesis says and what it does NOT sayIf an insider's purchase is public and anyone can read it, is there any information left in it? That is the exact question that brings people here.
- Who really moves the market: the types of investorWho sits on the other side of each order, and where a company's own insiders fit among them.
- Supply, demand and price: why it rises and falls constantlyHow a piece of news ends up inside the price, and why the reaction to a filed sale is rarely the one you would expect.
Source: SEC EDGAR Form 4. This is a list of public facts, not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell.