United Rentals is primarily a provider of construction and industrial equipment: trucks, aerial work platforms, counterbalance forklifts, reach forklifts, earth movers, compressors, homeowner equipment, and similar devices. In 2019, United Rentals was announced the 6th best stock of the 2010s, with a total return of 1,559%. The company is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. Since 2019, United Rentals has been led by Matthew Flannery (President & CEO), Michael Durand (Executive Vice President & COO), and Ted Grace (Executive Vice President & CFO). In addition to rentals, the company offers new and used equipment sales, servicing, and safety training. It offers general, aerial, and specialty rentals to a customer base that includes construction and industrial companies utilities municipalities and homeowners. URI was founded in 1997 by Brad Jacobs and grew primarily through acquisition. It is ranked #424 on the Fortune 500, and #1183 on the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest public companies. In 2017, United Rentals' revenue totaled more than $6.64 billion, with over $1.35 billion in profit. states and Puerto Rico and in every Canadian province. In North America, the company operates in 49 U.S. 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. It owns the largest rental fleet in the world with approximately 4,700 classes of equipment totaling about $19.3 billion in original equipment cost (OEC) as of 2022. United Rentals, Inc ( NYSE: URI) is an American publicly traded company it is the world's largest equipment rental company, with about 16 percent of the North American market share as of 2022.

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