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Alta Equipment First Quarter Revenue Jumps 23.4 Percent

May 18, 2022
Rental revenue was $37.7 million compared to $33.1 million a year ago, a 13.9-percent increase.
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Alta Equipment posted $331.7 million in first quarter 2022 total revenue compared to $268.8 million in the first quarter of 2022, a 23.4-percent hike. Rental revenue was $37.7 million compared to $33.1 million a year ago, a 13.9-percent increase. New and used equipment sales totaled $151.6 million compared to $123.8 million in the year-ago period, a 22.5-percent jump.

“We remain extremely focused on operational excellence and as a result, delivered both solid organic and acquisition-related revenue growth,” said Ryan Greenawalt, Alta CEO. “Consistent with our fourth quarter results, our Construction and Material Handling segments continued to benefit from the strong tailwinds in our end-user markets, producing significant year-over-year revenue growth on a combined basis, despite ongoing supply chain issues. Our flexible business model, increased product support revenues driven by higher new and used equipment sales, and expansion into higher margin specialty segments will continue to have a positive impact on future profitability.”

Alta optimistic about the year ahead

Greenawalt is optimistic about the current operating environment.

“Customer sentiment, project activity and visibility, remains extremely positive across all our operating markets,” he said. “Demand for new and used equipment and rental equipment has eclipsed pre-pandemic peak levels. As an example, our organic physical rental fleet utilization was up more than 5 percentage points from a year ago and rates on rental equipment continued to strengthen in the first quarter. We are operating in a fundamentally robust expansion cycle and all the industry indicators are extremely encouraging for the balance of the year. While the timing is uncertain, the recently passed Bipartisan Infrastructure bill should also be an incremental benefit to our business.

“Our 2022 growth strategy remains very much intact, and we have a solid pipeline of M&A opportunities we are evaluating that are consistent with our previous deals. Our ongoing goal is to expand our presence in existing key markets, add broader high-margin capabilities to new regions and expand into new markets which offer substantial growth opportunities. We have a strong balance sheet to support our expansion initiatives. Lastly, our entrance into the commercial electric vehicle industry and partnership with Nikola is progressing very well. While this initiative won’t be a material contributor to our results in 2022, it puts us in an excellent position to be an EV truck market leader in the densest truck markets in the country.”

Alta Equipment, Livonia, Mich., is No. 31 on the new RER 100.

About the Author

Michael Roth | Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.