Check out the companies making the biggest moves in midday trading: Abbott Laboratories – The maker of Ensure nutrition shakes jumped almost 11%. Abbott raised its full-year guidance for adjusted earnings, forecasting a range of $5.45 to $5.60 per share, versus its earlier estimate of $5.38 to $5.58 a share. The FactSet consensus called for $5.47 per share. ManpowerGroup – The employment agency saw shares surge 33%. Manpower called for third-quarter revenue to rise 2% to 6%, versus the FactSet consensus estimate of 1.7%. Adjusted earnings in the second quarter came in at 99 cents per share on revenue of $4.9 billion, topping Wall Street’s call for 95 cents per share and $4.72 billion. Cintas — The uniform rental and laundering service stock jumped 6.5% after a Bank of America upgrade to buy from neutral. The rating change comes after Cintas on Wednesday posted better-than-expected earnings for the fiscal fourth quarter. “We are incrementally more constructive on the setup for earnings over the next several quarters as Cintas benefits from an improved backdrop in key labor verticals, continues to drive impressive growth in adjacent product categories and is generating outsized margin gains from a high focus on improving supply chain and distribution efficiencies,” BofA said. Cinemark , Imax — Shares of the movie theater companies dropped almost 4% and 2%, respect …
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