NYSE:URI - United Rentals Stock Price, Forecast & News

United Rentals trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "URI."

United Rentals declared that its Board of Directors has approved a stock buyback program on Wednesday, April 18th 2018, which authorizes the company to repurchase $1,250,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to purchase up to 9.1% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are often a sign that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE:URI) posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, January, 29th. The construction company reported $5.60 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $5.22 by $0.38. The construction company earned $2.46 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.41 billion. United Rentals had a net margin of 12.56% and a return on equity of 42.34%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 6.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $4.85 earnings per share. View United Rentals' Earnings History.

United Rentals is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 29th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for United Rentals.

United Rentals will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, April 29th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

United Rentals updated its FY 2020 After-Hours earnings guidance on Wednesday, January, 29th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $9.4-9.8 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $9.58 billion.

10 brokers have issued 12-month price objectives for United Rentals' stock. Their forecasts range from $99.00 to $200.00. On average, they anticipate United Rentals' stock price to reach $163.25 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 24.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for United Rentals.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for United Rentals in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings, 5 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for United Rentals.

News articles about URI stock have been trending very negative on Friday, InfoTrie reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. United Rentals earned a coverage optimism score of -3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the construction company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for United Rentals.

United Rentals saw a decline in short interest during the month of February. As of February 14th, there was short interest totalling 4,870,000 shares, a decline of 5.8% from the January 30th total of 5,170,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,070,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 4.6 days. Approximately 6.6% of the shares of the company are short sold. View United Rentals' Current Options Chain.

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United Rentals' stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (5.87%), Lyrical Asset Management LP (2.93%), Theleme Partners LLP (2.11%), FMR LLC (2.04%), Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc. (1.61%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.60%). Company insiders that own United Rentals stock include Andrew B Limoges, Craig Adam Pintoff, Dale A Asplund, Donald C Roof, Filippo Passerini, Jason D Papastavrou, Jeffrey J Fenton, Jenne K Britell, Jessica Graziano, Jose B Alvarez, Michael Kneeland, Paul I Mcdonnell, Shiv Singh and William B Plummer. View Institutional Ownership Trends for United Rentals.

URI stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State Street Corp, Alliancebernstein L.P., Bank of America Corp DE, Lodge Hill Capital LLC, Marshall Wace LLP, PNC Financial Services Group Inc., National Pension Service and Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL. Company insiders that have sold United Rentals company stock in the last year include Andrew B Limoges, Craig Adam Pintoff, Jason D Papastavrou, Jeffrey J Fenton, Jessica Graziano, Michael Kneeland and Paul I Mcdonnell. View Insider Buying and Selling for United Rentals.

URI stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Argent Capital Management LLC, Man Group plc, Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Capital World Investors, AQR Capital Management LLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp and KBC Group NV. Company insiders that have bought United Rentals stock in the last two years include Donald C Roof, Filippo Passerini, Jenne K Britell, Jose B Alvarez and Shiv Singh. View Insider Buying and Selling for United Rentals.

Shares of URI can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of URI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $131.52.

United Rentals has a market capitalization of $9.78 billion and generates $9.35 billion in revenue each year. The construction company earns $1.17 billion in net income (profit) each year or $19.52 on an earnings per share basis. United Rentals employs 19,100 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About United Rentals.

The official website for United Rentals is http://www.unitedrentals.com/.

United Rentals' mailing address is 100 FIRST STAMFORD PLACE SUITE 700, STAMFORD CT, 06902. The construction company can be reached via phone at 203-622-3131 or via email at [email protected]