United Rentals - URI Stock Forecast, Price & News

10 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for United Rentals in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 2 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" URI shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in URI, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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10 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for United Rentals' stock. Their URI share price forecasts range from $269.00 to $515.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $427.50 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 6.1%.
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United Rentals' stock was trading at $355.42 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, URI shares have increased by 28.0% and is now trading at $455.07.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 26th 2023.
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United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE:URI) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, January, 25th. The construction company reported $9.74 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $10.12 by $0.38. The construction company had revenue of $3.30 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.29 billion. United Rentals had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 36.12% and a net margin of 18.08%. United Rentals's revenue was up 18.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $7.39 earnings per share.
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United Rentals declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, January 25th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, February 8th will be paid a dividend of $1.48 per share on Wednesday, February 22nd. This represents a $5.92 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.30%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, February 7th.
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United Rentals declared that its Board of Directors has approved a stock buyback program on Wednesday, October 26th 2022, which permits the company to buyback $1,250,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to repurchase up to 5.8% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are often a sign that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

United Rentals updated its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Wednesday, January, 25th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $13.70 billion-$14.20 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $13.46 billion.

144 employees have rated United Rentals Chief Executive Officer Matthew Flannery on Glassdoor.com. Matthew Flannery has an approval rating of 96% among the company's employees. This puts Matthew Flannery in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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

United Rentals' stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include AustralianSuper Pty Ltd (0.82%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.43%), Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank (0.43%), Pendal Group Ltd (0.37%), Argent Capital Management LLC (0.34%) and Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.26%). Insiders that own company stock include Andrew B Limoges, Craig Adam Pintoff, Dale A Asplund, Donald C Roof, Jessica Graziano, Jose B Alvarez, Matthew John Flannery, Michael Kneeland and Shiv Singh.
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Shares of URI stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of URI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $455.07.

United Rentals (NYSE:URI) has a market capitalization of $31.54 billion and generates $11.64 billion in revenue each year. The construction company earns $2.11 billion in net income (profit) each year or $29.76 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 24,600 workers across the globe.

United Rentals' mailing address is 100 FIRST STAMFORD PLACE SUITE 700, STAMFORD CT, 06902. The official website for the company is www.unitedrentals.com. The construction company can be reached via phone at (203) 622-3131, via email at tgrace@ur.com, or via fax at 203-622-6080.