United Rentals's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.93.
The historical rank and industry rank for United Rentals's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % or its related term are showing as below:
URI'
s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.37 Med: 0.78 Max: 1.11
Current: 0.93
During the past 13 years, United Rentals's highest Yield on Cost was 1.11. The lowest was 0.37. And the median was 0.78.
URI's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than 88.59% of 587
companies
in the Business Services industry
Industry Median: 3.58
vs URI: 0.93
Competitive Comparison of United Rentals's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %
For the Rental & Leasing Services subindustry, United Rentals's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %, along with its competitors' market caps and 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
United Rentals's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Business Services Industry
For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, United Rentals's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where United Rentals's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.
United Rentals 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Calculation
Dividend Yield % and dividend growth of a stock is an important factor for income investors. But if company A raises its dividend constantly faster than company B, company A's future dividend yield might be much higher than Company B's even if their yields are the same now and their stock prices do not change.
Yield on Cost assumes that you buy and the stock today, and hold it for 5 years. If the company raises it dividends at the same rate as it did over the past 5 years, the dividends investors receive annually in 5 years relative to the stock price today.
Therefore, Yield-on-Cost of United Rentals is calculated as
United Rentals (NYSE:URI) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Explanation
Of course the risk here is that the company may not raise its dividends as it did before. The key is to select the companies that can consistently raise its dividends. Usually companies with long history of raising dividends tend to do so.
United Rentals 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Related Terms
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United Rentals (United Rentals) Business Description
United Rentals is the world's largest equipment rental company. It principally operates in the United States and Canada, where it commands approximately 17% share in a highly fragmented market. It serves three end markets: general industrial, commercial construction, and residential construction. Like its peers, United Rentals historically has provided its customers with equipment that was intermittently used, such as aerial equipment and portable generators. As the company has grown organically and through hundreds of acquisitions since it went public in 1997, its catalog (fleet size of $21 billion) now includes a range of specialty equipment and other items that can be rented for indefinitely long periods.
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