Herc (HRI) Reports Earnings Tomorrow: What To Expect

Herc (HRI) Reports Earnings Tomorrow: What To Expect

Jabin Bastian

Mon, February 16, 2026 at 12:07 PM GMT+9 2 min read

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Equipment rental company Herc Holdings (NYSE:HRI) will be announcing earnings results this Tuesday before the bell. Here’s what you need to know.

Herc beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 0.9% last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.30 billion, up 35.1% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with full-year revenue guidance missing analysts’ expectations significantly and a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.

Is Herc a buy or sell going into earnings? Read our full analysis here, it’s free for active Edge members.

This quarter, analysts are expecting Herc’s revenue to grow 32.2% year on year to $1.26 billion, improving from the 14.4% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $1.87 per share.

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Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Herc has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates twice over the last two years.

Looking at Herc’s peers in the specialty equipment distributors segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Richardson Electronics delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 5.7%, beating analysts’ expectations by 4.8%, and SiteOne reported revenues up 3.2%, falling short of estimates by 0.9%. Richardson Electronics traded down 11.7% following the results while SiteOne was up 7%.

Read our full analysis of Richardson Electronics’s results here and SiteOne’s results here.

There has been positive sentiment among investors in the specialty equipment distributors segment, with share prices up 8.1% on average over the last month. Herc is up 12.3% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $178.73 (compared to the current share price of $173.12).

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