United Rentals, Inc.
Shortcut
13.93Normalized diluted EPS
-0.7% vs Street
Street
14.03Normalized diluted EPS
October 18 consensus snapshot
Real
15.55Issuer adjusted diluted EPS
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Explore the assumptions and calculations behind the forecast.
Shortcut’s reasoning.
The segment forecast uses fleet allocation inferred from depreciation shares, because the issuer does not disclose segment OEC. A conditional fixed-margin, prior-mix sensitivity lowers EPS by about $0.2474. Share timing and a $1 million impairment add-back also carry disclosed uncertainty; these assumptions were preserved through review.
Forecast revenue is $4,699.092500570347 million. GAAP net income of $821.5745164523728 million plus $43.442 million of after-tax normalizing adjustments gives adjusted net income of $865.0165164523728 million. Dividing by 62.113917571428566 million diluted shares gives adjusted EPS of $13.926291405748765; GAAP EPS is $13.226899036075038.
The Shortcut repair restored three blank cash-flow and segment-asset formulas, refreshed stale caches and corrected a $100 million capex-payables classification outside the scored EPS calculation. Assets and liabilities both fell by $100 million. Every value, formula and cache in the rebuilt 156-cell EPS dependency chain stayed unchanged.
The $180 million interest expense, July 20 share-count anchor and unmatched impairment expense allocation remain judgments. The 52% beat probability is a separate heuristic and does not multiply EPS. Source-capture, unscored consensus-basis and retained header/readability limitations are disclosed below.
On the record.
- Reporting period
- Q3 2026
- Reporting basis
- normalized adjusted diluted EPS
- Consensus snapshot
- October 18, 2026
- Model / effort
- Opus 5.5 · High effort
- Workbook
- Reviewed workbook
Record history
- Forecast generated
- Oct 19, 2026 at 3:08 PM PDT
- First published
- Oct 19, 2026 at 6:28 PM PDT
Result basis
Issuer adjusted diluted EPS was $15.55; GAAP diluted EPS was $14.77. The issuer reconciliation adds acquisition amortization, depreciation/fleet adjustments and restructuring costs.
Research sources
- https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067701/000106770125000041/uri-9302025xex991.htm
- https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067701/000106770126000009/uri-12312025xex991.htm
- https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067701/000106770126000018/uri-3312026xex991.htm
- https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067701/000106770126000028/uri-6302026xex991.htm
- https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067701/000106770125000039/uri-20250930.htm
- https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067701/000106770126000007/uri-20251231.htm