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Company snapshot — United Rentals Inc

URI in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
United Rentals hires out construction and industrial equipment across North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Its General Rentals arm supplies earthmoving machines, aerial lifts, forklifts and general tools, while its Specialty arm covers trench safety gear, power and climate-control units, fluid handling equipment and mobile storage. It also sells used machinery, parts and repair services to contractors, utilities and municipalities. The company is based in Stamford, Connecticut.
Where it sits in the stack
United Rentals carries no seat in our Rubin build-out index; it belongs to the Industrials sector's equipment-rental sleeve of our universe. It rents machinery to construction and industrial customers rather than supplying chip fabrication, data-centre or AI hardware layers.
Who it is priced against
The market names Herc Holdings and Ashtead Group as its closest comparisons, the other large operators renting similar construction and industrial equipment fleets.
Why Closelook tracks it
United Rentals is an S&P 500 constituent; it carries no Closelook score yet and holds no seat in Rubin or Halo. The diary has no quotes recorded on it so far.
What the diary watches
The diary watches construction and industrial activity levels, since rental demand and fleet utilisation tend to track the broader building cycle.

United Rentals Inc (URI) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for URI, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Rental & Leasing Services · United States · 6 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Rental & Leasing Services · United States

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against URI on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.77%, quarterly · last 1.97 USD on 2026-08-12

Dividends and capital return

What URI pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 7.70 USD per share · a 0.77% yield on the 2026-09-17 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-17
  • Change on the year +10.0% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 7.00 USD per share
  • Last distribution 1.97 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-12
  • By calendar year 2023: 1.48 USD (partial) · 2024: 6.52 USD · 2025: 7.16 USD · 2026: 5.91 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-11-07

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is United Rentals Inc (URI)?

United Rentals Inc trades as URI on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is URI in a Closelook index?

Not currently — United Rentals Inc is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

Where does URI trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -6.4% vs the 50-day and +7.4% vs the 200-day average, 14.9% below the 52-week high and +43.2% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 74 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does United Rentals Inc do?

United Rentals hires out construction and industrial equipment across North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Its General Rentals arm supplies earthmoving machines, aerial lifts, forklifts and general tools, while its Specialty arm covers trench safety gear, power and climate-control units, fluid handling equipment and mobile storage. It also sells used machinery, parts and repair services to contractors, utilities and municipalities. The market names Herc Holdings and Ashtead Group as its closest comparisons, the other large operators renting similar construction and industrial equipment fleets.

Where does United Rentals Inc sit in the AI build-out?

United Rentals carries no seat in our Rubin build-out index; it belongs to the Industrials sector's equipment-rental sleeve of our universe. It rents machinery to construction and industrial customers rather than supplying chip fabrication, data-centre or AI hardware layers. United Rentals is an S&P 500 constituent; it carries no Closelook score yet and holds no seat in Rubin or Halo. The diary has no quotes recorded on it so far.

Does United Rentals Inc pay a dividend?

United Rentals Inc has paid 7.70 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 0.77% on the 2026-09-17 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 1.97 USD on 2026-08-12. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for URI, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Rental & Leasing Services, then Industrials. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.