Is it safe?
Can URI take a bad year?
United Rentals carries $13.7B of net debt at 3.07× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$13.7B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.07×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.77× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 3.67
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Debt / equity
- 1.55×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $13.9B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $156M
- Net debt
- $13.7B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $4.48B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $4.04B
- Debt / equity
- 1.55×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.10×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 40%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −63%
- Below its 52-week high
- −9.3%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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