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Price History

The shaded fan is where this price has historically travelled over the months after a close like today’s. It is not a forecast: it has no view on direction, only on distance.

$242.91$615.91$988.9$1,362
2021-102026-09 · $1,014

Over 3 months from Sep 2026, roughly two-thirds of past moves landed between $847.42 and $1,213; nine in ten between $754.84 and $1,362.

Tested against this asset’s own history: across 331 past 3-month windows, the price actually landed inside the two-thirds band 69% of the time. The gap from 68% is the model’s error — real returns have fatter tails than the maths assumes, so the band gets breached more often than it claims.

Time underwater

How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.

-90.4%-60.2%-30.1%0.0%
1997-122026-09 · -10.5%

Worst drawdown: −90%, peaking Jun 1998 and bottoming Feb 2009 — 165 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$34,600
Value today
$1,198,907
Return
+3365.0%
Months invested
346

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $52,000 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +2205.6%.

Lump sum instead — $34,600 all at once in Dec 1997: $1,816,507 (+5150.0%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Jun 2026): $381.12 on $400 invested (-4.7%).

⚠ Price returns only — dividends are not included. This understates the true return of dividend-paying shares, and any comparison against crypto (which pays no dividends) is biased against equities by roughly the dividend yield, compounded.

If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.

Every start month at once

Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.

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Legend:−50%−20%0%+50%+200%+1000%worst timing (ATH)Selected 1997-12: +3365.0%

About United Rentals

United Rentals, Inc. is an American equipment rental company, with about 16 percent of the North American market share as of 2022. It owns the largest rental fleet in the world with approximately 4,800 classes of equipment totaling about $20.59 billion in original equipment cost (OEC) as of 2025. The company has a combined total of 1,625 locations, including an integrated network of 1,504 rental locations in North America, 38 in Europe, 23 in Australia and 19 in New Zealand. In North America, the company operates in 49 U.S. states and Puerto Rico and in every Canadian province. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under industrials and trading companies & distributors, with a market cap of about $63.5B.

It rates Medium-High Risk at 2.7/5, meaning real but ordinary risk — the kind most mainstream assets carry, with some factors scoring poorly.

What pushes the score up: market / volatility (4.3/5) and leverage / financial (4.0/5).

Scoring well: earnings quality at 1.0/5.

Not yet researched: concentration, governance. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.

Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.

Risk Profile

Medium-High Risk(2.7/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility4.3/5 · weight 20%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)3/535.9
  • Max drawdown from ATH5/590.4
  • Beta vs S&P 5005/52.1
Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • Avg daily $ volume1/5540.7m
  • Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
Leverage / Financial4.0/5 · weight 20%
  • Debt / equity4/51.5
  • Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched
Earnings Quality1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • 3yr EPS volatility1/57.0
Concentrationunrated · weight 10%
  • Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
  • Geographic revenue concentrationnot yet researched
Governanceunrated · weight 10%
  • Board independence %not yet researched
  • Share structurenot yet researched
  • Litigation / audit historynot yet researched
Sector / Regulatory2.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Sector regulatory exposure2/5moderate

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