United Rentals, Inc. (URI) Stock

About United Rentals, Inc.

United Rentals, Inc. is led by CEO Matthew J. Flannery, employs 27,900 people, headquartered in Stamford, US, publicly traded since 1997.

United Rentals, Inc. (URI) stock trades at $1056.37 with a market capitalization of $65.75B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 24.47, price-to-book of 6.97, price-to-sales of 3.75. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $701.59 and $1179.18, and currently trades 10.4% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 0.78%.

On profitability, United Rentals, Inc. generates a return on equity (ROE) of 29.18% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 15.68%, an operating margin of 24.68%, a net profit margin of 15.67%.

In its most recent fiscal year, United Rentals, Inc. reported annual revenue of $16.1B, net profit of $2.5B, revenue has compounded at 13.5% a year over the last five years, profit at 22.9% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.67, a current ratio of 0.94, total assets of $29.9B, $459.0M in cash and equivalents.

URI has an average daily trading volume of 486,090 shares, a beta of 1.79 (more volatile than the overall market).