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United Rentals URI Price / earnings

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Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$4.0B+7.1%
Gross profit$1.5B+8.3%
Operating income$869.0M+8.1%
Net income$531.0M+2.5%
EPS (diluted)$8.43+6.6%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$156.0M-71.2%
Total debt$17.0B+8.2%
Total equity$9.0B+2.0%
Total assets$29.9B+6.6%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$1.5B+6.3%

Valuation

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Market cap$65.71B+11.9%
Enterprise value$82.55B+11.7%
P/S+0.2×

Profitability

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Gross margin38.2%-1.3pp
Operating margin24.7%-1.1pp
Net margin15.3%-1.1pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity28.2%-1.9pp
Debt / equity1.9×+0.1×
Current ratio0.8×-0.1×

Where this comes from

Calculated from United Rentals’s reported figures.

Based on the most recent quarter.

The official record: United Rentals’s 10-Q, filed April 22, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is United Rentals's price / earnings?
United Rentals (URI) reported price / earnings of 18.3× in Q1 2026.
How has United Rentals's price / earnings changed year-over-year?
United Rentals's price / earnings increased by 13.9% year-over-year, from 16.1× to 18.3×.
What is the long-term trend for United Rentals's price / earnings?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), United Rentals's price / earnings has grown at a -2.2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 87.5× to 80×.
What does price / earnings mean?
How many dollars investors pay for each dollar of the company's annual profit.
How do you interpret price / earnings?
Lower can mean cheaper — or that the market expects earnings to fall. High multiples embed growth expectations. Meaningless when earnings are negative, so it is suppressed there.
How does price / earnings compare across companies?
Compare against the company's own history and sector peers, not across sectors with different growth and risk profiles.