Growth Metrics

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

United Rentals has reported Return on Sales over the past 10 years, most recently at 0.08% for Q1 2019.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Sales at 0.08% for Q1 2019, down 2.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Mar 2019 was 0.13% (down 7.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2018 was 0.14%, down 7.0%.
  • Return on Sales for Q1 2019 was 0.08% at United Rentals, down from 0.13% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Sales for URI hit a ceiling of 0.47% in Q4 2017 and a floor of 0.06% in Q2 2015.
  • Median Return on Sales over the past 5 years was 0.11% (2018), compared with a mean of 0.13%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Sales: surged 37bps in 2017 and later tumbled -33bps in 2018.
  • United Rentals' Return on Sales stood at 0.11% in 2015, then decreased by -9bps to 0.1% in 2016, then surged by 365bps to 0.47% in 2017, then tumbled by -71bps to 0.13% in 2018, then tumbled by -39bps to 0.08% in 2019.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Sales were 0.08% (Q1 2019), 0.13% (Q4 2018), and 0.16% (Q3 2018) per Business Quant data.