Are These Equipment Rental Companies Creating Value?

The best companies create value in excess of their cost of capital, as reflected by positive EVA momentum. The higher the EVA momentum, the more value management's creating.

Let's look at United Rentals and three of its diverse equipment rental industry peers, to see how effectively they create value. Here are the trailing four quarters' worth of EVA momentum figures for each company over the past three years, and rankings by percentile versus the Russell 3000 for the past 12 months' EVA momentum.

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