Stocks · Industrials · Rental & Leasing Services
Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. HTZ
$1.76 +1.73% Close, Oct 2, 2026 · NASDAQ · Market cap $555.7M
Weak trendHigh risk
Next earnings report: Nov 3, 2026
Scroll or pinch to zoom, drag to move. Daily prices adjusted for splits. Markers: E = earnings (green beat, red miss), S = split, D = dividend.
Three things to know
- The diluted share count rose 35.3% in a year.
- Over the past year the stock returned -74.0%, behind the S&P 500 by 89.1 percentage points.
- The stock is 77% below its highest close of the past year.
PromtFinance scores
Each score is a percentile within the Industrials sector (0–100). Under each score: how the stock ranks in its sector on every component. As of Oct 5, 2026.
How fast revenue, earnings and cash flow are growing.
- Revenue growth (TTM, YoY)Bottom 31%
- Revenue growth, 3-year CAGRBottom 26%
- Revenue growth accelerationTop 24%
Returns on capital, margins, earnings quality and balance-sheet strength.
- Return on invested capitalBottom 30%
- Gross marginBottom 17%
- Operating marginBottom 31%
- Accruals (lower is better)Top 27%
- Net debt / EBITDA (lower is better)Bottom 10%
- Interest coverBottom 26%
How cheap the shares are relative to earnings, cash flow and their own history.
- Earnings yieldBottom 4%
- Free-cash-flow yieldBottom 1%
- EBITDA / enterprise valueTop 7%
- Sales / enterprise valueBottom 45%
Strength and persistence of the price trend, including versus the S&P 500.
- 12-month return excluding last monthBottom 3%
- 6-month returnBottom 1%
- 1-year return vs S&P 500Bottom 3%
- Distance from 52-week highBottom 4%
- Trend checklist (0–4)Bottom 15%
Earnings surprises and analyst sentiment (estimate-revision history is being collected).
- Average EPS surprise, last 4 quartersTop 4%
- Consecutive EPS beatsTop 45%
- Share of analysts rating BuyBottom 16%
- Upside to consensus price targetTop 29%
Low volatility, shallow drawdowns, low market sensitivity and modest leverage.
- Volatility, 60 days (lower is better)Bottom 4%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 yearsBottom 7%
- Beta vs S&P 500 (lower is better)Top 46%
- Net debt / EBITDA (lower is better)Bottom 10%
What changed
Latest four quarters versus the same period a year earlier (growth: versus one quarter earlier).
| Measure | Before | Now | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (YoY) | -1.0% | 3.4% | ↑ |
| Gross margin | 7.2% | 14.1% | ↑ |
| Operating margin | -3.2% | 2.8% | ↑ |
| FCF margin | -48.8% | -95.0% | ↓ |
Fundamental momentum
| Measure | Now (TTM) | Year / quarter before | Sector rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (TTM, YoY) | 3.4% | -1.0% | ↑ | Bottom 31% |
| Gross margin | 14.1% | 7.2% | ↑ | Bottom 17% |
| Operating margin | 2.8% | -3.2% | ↑ | Bottom 31% |
| Net margin | -3.1% | -29.6% | ↑ | — |
| Free-cash-flow margin | -95.0% | -48.8% | ↓ | — |
| Return on invested capital | 1.2% | — | Bottom 30% | |
| Revenue growth, 3-year CAGR | -0.7% | — | Bottom 26% |
Quality of earnings and balance sheet
- Accruals (net income − OCF) / assetsLower is better; high accruals can signal weaker earnings quality.
- -7.2%
- Stock-based compensation / revenueA cost to shareholders through dilution.
- 0.6%
- Receivables growth vs revenue growthReceivables growing much faster than sales can be a warning.
- +1.2 pp
- Net debt / EBITDABelow 1× is conservative; above 3× is high leverage.
- 6.96×
- Interest cover (operating income / interest)How many times operating profit covers interest.
- 0.3×
Shareholder returns
- Dividend yield (dividends paid, TTM)
- 0.00%
- Net buyback yield (TTM)
- -0.54%
- Shareholder yield
- -0.54%
- Share count change, 1 year
- +35.3%
- Share count change, 3-year CAGR
- +9.9%
Shareholder yield = dividends + net buybacks over the last four quarters, divided by market cap.
Based on the four quarters through Jun 30, 2026 (filed Aug 6, 2026).
Earnings and expectations
Earnings momentum
- Consecutive EPS beats
- 2
- Beats in the last 8 reports
- 4 of 8
- Average EPS surprise, last 4
- +100.0%
- Average 2-day reaction, last 8
- +9.2%
- Positive 20 days after report
- 3 of 8
Analysts
- Consensus price target
- $2.61
- Target vs current price
- +48.3%
- Analysts with a rating
- 21
- Share rating Buy or Strong Buy
- 33%
- Consensus rating
- Hold
How the stock reacted to recent reports
| Report date | EPS surprise | 2 days | 5 days | 20 days | 60 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 2026 | +54.0% | +29.5% | +79.5% | +48.1% | — |
| May 7, 2026 | +5.3% | -4.8% | -9.0% | -21.3% | -76.4% |
| Feb 26, 2026 | -22.5% | +1.8% | -1.8% | -1.1% | +14.5% |
| Nov 4, 2025 | +700.0% | +36.2% | +27.1% | +3.8% | -0.8% |
| Aug 7, 2025 | +24.4% | +7.5% | -3.4% | -2.5% | -10.4% |
| May 12, 2025 | -3.7% | +3.3% | -0.9% | -6.1% | -17.1% |
| Feb 13, 2025 | -63.9% | -8.5% | +5.6% | -20.9% | +57.7% |
| Nov 12, 2024 | -36.0% | +8.6% | +23.4% | +34.1% | +32.3% |
Returns from the close before each report. Past reactions do not determine future ones.
Earnings history
| Report date | EPS | Estimate | Surprise | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 2026 | -$0.11 | -$0.24 | +54.0% | $2.40B |
| May 7, 2026 | -$0.72 | -$0.76 | +5.3% | $2.00B |
| Feb 26, 2026 | -$0.63 | -$0.51 | -22.5% | $2.03B |
| Nov 4, 2025 | $0.12 | -$0.02 | +700.0% | $2.48B |
| Aug 7, 2025 | -$0.34 | -$0.45 | +24.4% | $2.19B |
| May 12, 2025 | -$1.12 | -$1.08 | -3.7% | $1.81B |
| Feb 13, 2025 | -$1.18 | -$0.72 | -63.9% | $2.04B |
| Nov 12, 2024 | -$0.68 | -$0.50 | -36.0% | $2.58B |
Valuation in context
| Multiple | Now | 5-year median | 5-year percentile | Sector rank (cheapness) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EV / EBITDA | 7.1× | — | — | Top 7% |
| EV / Sales | 2.36× | — | — | Bottom 45% |
| Free-cash-flow yield | -1523.33% | — | — | Bottom 1% |
| Earnings yield | -63.35% | — | — | Bottom 4% |
P/E over the past five years
Range 4.6× – 33.1× since Sep 30, 2021. Each point: price on the filing date divided by trailing-twelve-month EPS known then.
Technical state
Trend checklist
- ✗ Price above 20-day average
- ✗ Price above 50-day average
- ✗ Price above 200-day average
- ✗ 50-day average above 200-day
- ✗ MACD histogram positive
Trend quality
- Days above the 50-day average
- 0
- Days above the 200-day average
- 0
- 50-day average slope (20 days)
- -3.5%
- 200-day average slope (20 days)
- -7.4%
- Distance from 50-day average
- -11.5%
- Distance from 200-day average
- -57.2%
- RSI (14)
- 39.9
- Relative volume
- 1.53×
Risk and drawdowns
- Volatility, 60 days (annualized)
- 104.3%
- Volatility vs own 5-year history
- 90th percentile · High for this stock
- Beta vs S&P 500 (2 years, weekly)
- 1.02
- Correlation with S&P 500
- 0.13
- Current drawdown from 1-year high
- -77.5%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 years
- -87.7%
Largest declines in the past six years
| From peak | To low | Decline | Length | Recovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 2021 | Aug 4, 2026 | -95.6% | 1188 days | Not yet recovered |
| Jul 1, 2021 | Jul 26, 2021 | -44.4% | 16 days | 64 days (Oct 25, 2021) |
Declines of 10% or more from a closing high, measured on daily closes.
Financial statements
- Market cap
- $555.7M
- EPS, diluted (TTM)
- -$1.12
- Revenue (TTM)
- $8.91B
- 52-week range
- $1.45 – $8.18
| FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $7.34B | $8.69B | $9.37B | $9.05B | $8.50B |
| Gross profit | $2.74B | $3.03B | $1.73B | $283.0M | $971.0M |
| Operating income | $2.07B | $2.08B | $774.0M | -$562.0M | $14.0M |
| Net income | $366.0M | $2.06B | $616.0M | -$2.86B | -$747.0M |
| EPS (diluted) | -$0.27 | $3.36 | $1.39 | -$9.34 | -$2.41 |
| Q3 2024 | Q4 2024 | Q1 2025 | Q2 2025 | Q3 2025 | Q4 2025 | Q1 2026 | Q2 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $2.58B | $2.04B | $1.81B | $2.19B | $2.48B | $2.03B | $2.00B | $2.40B |
| Net income | -$1.33B | -$479.0M | -$443.0M | -$294.0M | $184.0M | -$194.0M | -$333.0M | $64.0M |
| EPS (diluted) | -$4.34 | -$1.56 | -$1.44 | -$0.95 | $0.51 | -$0.62 | -$1.06 | $0.06 |
| FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | $1.81B | $2.54B | $2.47B | $2.22B | $1.63B |
| Capital expenditure | -$7.22B | -$4.25B | -$9.70B | -$10.63B | -$10.28B |
| Free cash flow | -$5.42B | -$1.71B | -$7.23B | -$8.40B | -$8.65B |
| Dividends paid | -$239.0M | $0 | $0 | -$7.0M | $0 |
| Net share buybacks | $985.0M | -$2.46B | -$315.0M | $0 | $0 |
Cash outflows are shown as negative numbers.
- Cash and short-term investments
- $631.0M
- Total assets
- $23.87B
- Total liabilities
- $24.50B
- Total debt
- $21.09B
- Net debt
- $20.46B
- Shareholders’ equity
- -$628.0M
As of Jun 30, 2026 (filed Aug 6, 2026).
Short interest
- Shares sold short
- 115,867,216
- Days to cover
- 8.51
- Change vs previous report
- +1.2%
FINRA short interest, settlement date Sep 15, 2026.
Stock splits
- Jun 21, 2019
- 1,151-for-1,000
- Jul 1, 2016
- 1-for-5