Equipment rental company United Rentals (NYSE:URI) will be reporting results tomorrow after market close. Here’s what to expect.
United Rentals met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $3.99 billion, up 6% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates and a slight miss of analysts’ organic revenue estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting United Rentals’s revenue to grow 5.4% year on year to $3.93 billion, slowing from the 13.1% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $11.64 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 Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Richardson Electronics delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 12.1%, missing analysts’ expectations by 3.5%, and MSC Industrial reported a revenue decline of 2.7%, topping estimates by 2.6%. Richardson Electronics traded down 13.1% following the results while MSC Industrial’s stock price was unchanged.
Read our full analysis of Richardson Electronics’s results here and MSC Industrial’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the industrial distributors segment, with share prices up 4.2% on average over the last month. United Rentals is up 4.7% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $832.37 (compared to the current share price of $769.91).
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