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| With seasonal demand turning to return on invested capital and free cash flow, reich [ph] set a new record at 13.7% on a trailing twelve month basis and remains well above our cost of capital |
| We remain very pleased with how the year is playing out |
| We take pride in the fact that we're able to integrate these companies and extract a lot of value, including through cost energies |
| Well, it's certainly gotten better, right? So supply chain certainly gotten better and I think you're seeing, I think you'll see most of the industry run more normalized time utilizations |
| We do find out about new things coming on all the time, but the basis is pretty robust and pretty well known quantity and we've been tracking that and that number remains strong at a steady level |
| But again, if we can grow a business at 16% and generate 52% margins we feel really good about that |
| The competitive advantages we've created over the last decade position us well to continue to outpace the industry as we drive towards our long term goals |
| So very strong performance there |
| A third quarter record within this rental revenue was up 18%, with broadbased growth across verticals regions and customer segments |
| Fleet productivity increased one and a half percent on a pro forma basis, adjusted EBITDA increased 22% to a third quarter record of $1.85 billion, translating to a margin of over 49%, while adjusted EPS grew by over 26% to a third quarter record |
| And Matt alluded to kind of the cumulative 20% that's for us, in a very good position |
| And so when we measure kind of our absolute and relative beta, when we look at our absolute and relative multiples, we think that has been quite successful in delivering what we wanted |
| We do think the strategy overall has served us very well and it's accomplished a lot of what it was intended to accomplish, which primarily was to allocate excess free cash flow to reduce the equity volatility and improve valuation |
| Looking forward, this added capacity, combined with my comments on CapEx and supply chains, Eshould position us well to serve our customers as we enter 2024 |
| Ahern is another great example of the strength we have in leveraging our balance sheet as a way to benefit both our customers and our shareholders |
| And as Ted mentioned in his comments, we're really pleased that we got back to pre pandemic fleet age and we want to keep that rolling |
| We certainly expect to have positive fleet productivity next year |
| Geographically, we continued to see growth across all GenRent regions, and our specialty business delivered another excellent quarter, with organic rental revenue up 16% year on year and double digit gains in most regions |
| We absolutely expect next year to have positive fleet productivity |
| We reaffirmed within our ranges for total revenue, EBITDA and free cash flow, reflecting our continued confidence in delivering a record year |
| This is supported by the ABC's Contractor Confidence Index, which remained strong across the third quarter, as did its backlog indicator, the Dodge Momentum Index, which advanced sequentially in September |
| Furthermore, non res construction spending and non res construction employment both remained solid |
| And most importantly, our own Customer Confidence Index continues to reflect optimism, while early indications from our field team on their expectations for '24 are also encouraging |
| As we look ahead, we feel confident in our outlook |
| Importantly, we continued to take advantage of a robust used market by driving strong volume growth in our retail sales at attractive pricing |
| And finally, adjusted EPS increased 27% to a third quarter record of $11.73 |
| Looking forward the opportunity ahead of us around large projects is unlike anything in my career, and we're uniquely positioned in the rental industry to win more than our fair share of the 2 trillion plus of investment we see on the horizon |
| We set high expectations for 2023, and I'm proud of the results we're delivering |
| We feel good about the rest of the year and what's ahead for United Rentals and our investors |
| On a pro forma basis, which, as you know, is how we look at our results, rental revenue increased by a robust 10.2%, with fleet productivity up one and a half percent, reflecting a healthy rate environment that continues to be supported by good industry discipline |
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| While you did see the as reported margin down 320 basis points versus 270 last quarter, pretty minor |
| The decline in our third quarter adjusted used margin to 55.2% was largely due to expanded channel mix required to drive higher volumes, the impact of some cleanup actions we took on Ahern fleet and the normalization of supply demand dynamics |
| And I think Ted mentioned that you still have some cleanup, I guess, activity on the [indiscernible] fleet, which may be depressing gross margin |
| We did have some mix shifts within the different pieces of specialty that would have been relative headwinds |
| Well, anniversary the very tough, and even on a pro forma basis, when you think about this year, we still had tough comps from a time utilization perspective, and we've talked about that over that unusual time that just we didn't feel was healthy and put way too much hand to mouth orders and customer relationships at risk |
| So we're not seeing things that are slowed down because there's economic issues |
| We saw this in 2015, 16 with fears of the oil downturn |
| Looking at third quarter profitability, our adjusted EBITDA margin decreased 80 basis points on an as reported basis, but increased 20 basis points on a pro forma basis to 49.1% |
| I think you have extra depreciation, but it seemed a little sequentially weaker than 2Q, and I'm just wondering if there's any other driver or if it was incremental activity related to Ahern that drove that |
| So a little bit below that bottom threshold we had introduced in 2019 of two |
| There was a job in South Carolina that got delayed because some environmental potential issues that they have to work through |
| Our revenue synergies will take longer |
| There are some delays that you'd call political, maybe that there was a Chinese partner that one of the plants was dealing with that got some noise about, others are permitting |
| Michael Feniger Well, I guess if those pockets do soften next year |
| So if you lose a mix so you lose a dollar of office construction, you lose a certain amount of revenue, you gain a dollar of mega construction, you gain a certain amount of revenue |
| There's still a lot of replacement CapEx that needs to be served and especially in some of the areas that's been dragging |
| So presumably the used fleet will be slightly younger, but I guess we're all expecting used prices to normalize downwards a bit |
| So we're not seeing a lot of those soft pockets |
| I know it's been confusing on some of the metrics specifically and all that will be cleaned up by year end |
| So there'll be a little bit of drag still on the operations of those stores as they implement all the new activity, the new tools |
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