Equipment rental company United Rentals (NYSE:URI) will be announcing earnings results this Wednesday after market hours. Here’s what investors should know.
United Rentals beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 0.8% last quarter, reporting revenues of $3.94 billion, up 4.5% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates and full-year EBITDA guidance slightly topping analysts’ expectations.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting United Rentals’s revenue to grow 4.3% year on year to $4.16 billion, slowing from the 6% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $12.31 per share.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. United Rentals has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates twice over the last two years.
Looking at United Rentals’s peers in the industrial distributors segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Richardson Electronics delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 1.6%, beating analysts’ expectations by 6%, and Fastenal reported revenues up 11.7%, in line with consensus estimates. Richardson Electronics traded up 11.4% following the results while Fastenal was down 6.7%.
Read our full analysis of Richardson Electronics’s results here and Fastenal’s results here.
Investors in the industrial distributors segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices up 1.4% on average over the last month. United Rentals is up 6.2% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $1,001 (compared to the current share price of $1,002).
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