Growth Metrics

United Rentals (URI) Return on Equity (2016 - 2019)

United Rentals has reported Return on Equity over the past 9 years, most recently at 0.32% for Q1 2019.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Equity at 0.32% for Q1 2019, down 90.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Mar 2019 was 0.32% (down 90.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2018 was 0.64%, up 194.0%.
  • Return on Equity for Q1 2019 was 0.32% at United Rentals, down from 0.33% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Equity for URI hit a ceiling of 1.22% in Q1 2018 and a floor of 3.6% in Q1 2017.
  • Median Return on Equity over the past 5 years was 0.41% (2016), compared with a mean of 0.16%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Equity: plummeted -435bps in 2017 and later soared 482bps in 2018.
  • United Rentals' Return on Equity stood at 0.78% in 2015, then tumbled by -369bps to 2.1% in 2016, then skyrocketed by 158bps to 1.22% in 2017, then crashed by -73bps to 0.33% in 2018, then fell by -1bps to 0.32% in 2019.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Equity were 0.32% (Q1 2019), 0.33% (Q4 2018), and 0.52% (Q3 2018) per Business Quant data.