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CTOS · NYSE
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$9.11
+0.77%
Close on Sep 11, 2026
Updated 12/18/2023
Long-term research evidence only. No price targets, no trading signals, no recommendations.
Investment Report Card
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SCORE_PENDING_OWNERSHIP
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Does the business have the characteristics needed to create value over many years?
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Is the underlying business getting stronger or weaker?
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Positive disclosed activity
What are important owners actually doing?
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54 / 100
Reasonable
Is today's price reasonable?
Weaker than most covered companies on this measure — and valuation is researched separately from the Suggested Investment Score.
56 / 100
Moderate Capital Returns
How effectively does the company reward shareholders?
Around the middle of the covered universe — and capital returns are researched separately from the Suggested Investment Score.
No weakening evidence is recorded in today's readings.
Long-Term Potential is not available for this company, so no long-term reading is shown.
No disclosed ownership reading is available at the required confidence, so ownership is left blank rather than estimated.
CUSTOM TRUCK ONE SOURCE INC reads 54 out of 100 on Valuation Intelligence, recorded as Reasonable. The stock currently trades above most of its own recent valuation history and above comparable companies. This describes the price being paid relative to the company's financials — it is not a forecast and not a fair value. Valuation Intelligence is a research model and contributes nothing to the Suggested Investment Score or the daily ranking.
CUSTOM TRUCK ONE SOURCE INC reads 56 out of 100 on Capital Returns Intelligence (Moderate Capital Returns), reflecting a share count falling about 1.2% a year. Direct capital returns are limited because the company continues reinvesting most of its cash. Capital Returns Intelligence is a research model and contributes nothing to the Suggested Investment Score or the daily ranking.
No meaningful recorded changes in the stored history.
Risk Intelligence is a core model, Long-Term Potential, Fundamental Momentum, Valuation Intelligence and Capital Returns Intelligence are research models, and Ownership Intelligence is supplemental descriptive evidence. Valuation Intelligence and Capital Returns Intelligence each contribute 0% to the Suggested Investment Score. Nothing here is a recommendation.
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This company does not currently satisfy any collection rule. That is a stored research result, not a judgement about the business.
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Too few stored readings exist for this company to summarise honestly.
Composite discovery model
Suggested Investment Score
A composite score is only published when every required input is available for this company. Nothing is estimated to fill a gap, and exclusion from the ranking is not a sell instruction.
COMPOSITE DISCOVERY MODEL — RESEARCH STAGE · Ranking updated September 12, 2026
Researched separately
Valuation Intelligence 54 · Reasonable
Valuation Intelligence is currently researched separately and does not affect the Suggested Investment Score or daily ranking.
Researched separately
Capital Returns Intelligence 56 · Moderate Capital Returns
Capital Returns Intelligence is researched separately and contributes 0% to the Suggested Investment Score, the daily rank or any ranking event.
This company does not currently hold a stored Suggested Investment Score, so no contribution breakdown can be shown.
Stored snapshots only
Research-score history available since September 2026.
Stored research history does not yet cover a full 30 days comparison for this company.
A change is reported as meaningful at 8 score points, 5 rank places, or any change of research classification. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell.
Plain-English definitions, with the formula and the limitations of each measure.
Fifth research lens · outside the score
Valuation Intelligence
Valuation Intelligence is currently researched separately and does not affect the Suggested Investment Score or daily ranking.
Reasonable
45
Elevated
Is this company expensive or inexpensive compared with its own history?
40
Elevated
How expensive is this stock compared with similar companies?
40
Elevated
How much financial output does an investor receive relative to the price paid?
100
Very Attractive
Does the company's growth help justify the valuation investors are paying?
CUSTOM TRUCK ONE SOURCE INC reads 54 out of 100 on Valuation Intelligence, recorded as Reasonable. The stock currently trades above most of its own recent valuation history and above comparable companies. This describes the price being paid relative to the company's financials — it is not a forecast and not a fair value.
Price data through September 11, 2026 · Financial data through the quarter ended June 30, 2026
Stored readings only. The dashed line is this company's own median for the selected measure.
Only one stored valuation reading exists so far, so there is nothing to chart yet. Valuation history builds forward from activation rather than being reconstructed.
Current P/E 96.8x · peer median 18.8x
Valuation is inherently uncertain. A stock that appears inexpensive can continue falling, and a stock that appears expensive can continue rising. Valuation Intelligence provides context about the price investors are paying — it does not predict short-term market movements, and it never produces a fair value, a price target or a buy or sell range. Model VALUATION_INTELLIGENCE_V1.
Sixth research lens · outside the score
Capital Returns Intelligence
Capital Returns Intelligence is researched separately and contributes 0% to the Suggested Investment Score, the daily rank or any ranking event.
Moderate Capital Returns
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Not Applicable — No Dividend
Dividend reliability
This company currently retains rather than distributes cash through dividends. Capital Returns Intelligence therefore places more emphasis on its other measurable shareholder-return behaviors according to the frozen V1 methodology.
30
Limited Capital Returns
Do buybacks actually reduce shares?
58
Favorable Capital Returns
Is your ownership share protected?
93
Exceptional Capital Returns
Can the cash flow support it?
44
Moderate Capital Returns
Cash returned versus company value
CUSTOM TRUCK ONE SOURCE INC reads 56 out of 100 on Capital Returns Intelligence (Moderate Capital Returns), reflecting a share count falling about 1.2% a year. Direct capital returns are limited because the company continues reinvesting most of its cash.
This company currently retains rather than distributes cash through dividends. Capital Returns Intelligence therefore places more emphasis on its other measurable shareholder-return behaviors according to the frozen V1 methodology.
How returned cash was used
Dividends $0.00 · net repurchases $33.71M · total returned $33.71M
Price data through September 11, 2026 · Financial data through the quarter ended June 30, 2026
Stored readings only. History builds forward from activation rather than being reconstructed.
Only one stored reading exists for this measure so far, so there is nothing to chart yet.
A very high dividend yield may reflect a falling share price or an unsustainable payout. Capital Returns Intelligence emphasizes consistency and sustainability rather than simply rewarding the highest yield.
Announced or gross buyback spending does not always mean shareholders are gaining ownership. Companies can simultaneously issue shares through employee compensation or acquisitions. Suggested Investments therefore considers actual share-count changes alongside repurchase spending.
Capital Returns Intelligence describes how a company returns capital to shareholders. It is not a measure of stock-price performance, it does not predict future returns, and a strong reading is never a recommendation to buy. Dividends and repurchases can be reduced or stopped at any time. Model CAPITAL_RETURNS_INTELLIGENCE_V1, contributing 0% to the Suggested Investment Score.
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In the company’s own words
Custom Truck One Source, Inc. ("we," "our," "us," "Custom Truck," or "the Company"), a Delaware corporation, and its wholly owned subsidiaries are engaged in the business of providing a range of services and products to customers through rentals and sales of specialty equipment, rentals and sales of aftermarket parts and services related to the specialty equipment, and repair, maintenance, and customization services related to that equipment. Immediately following the acquisition by Nesco Holdings II, Inc. of Custom Truck One Source, L.P. ("Custom Truck LP") on April 1, 2021 (the "Acquisition"), Nesco Holdings, Inc. ("Nesco Holdings") changed its name to "Custom Truck One Source, Inc." and changed The New York Stock Exchange ticker for its shares of common stock from "NSCO" to "CTOS."
We are a specialty equipment provider to the electric utility transmission and distribution, telecommunications, rail, forestry, waste management and other infrastructure-related industries in North America. Our core business relates to our new equipment inventory and rental fleet of specialty equipment that is utilized by service providers in infrastructure development and improvement work. We offer our specialized equipment to a diverse customer base, including utilities and contractors, for the maintenance, repair, upgrade, and installation of critical infrastructure assets, including distribution and transmission electric lines, telecommunications networks, and rail systems, as well as for lighting and signage. We rent, produce, sell, and service a broad range of new and used equipment, including bucket trucks, digger derricks, dump trucks, cranes, service trucks, and heavy-haul trailers. Through December 31, 2025, we managed our business in our three reporting segments: Equipment Rental Solutions ("ERS"), Truck and Equipment Sales ("TES"), and Aftermarket Parts and Services ("APS"). Recently, our Chief Executive Officer reevaluated how he assesses performance and allocates resources across our business. This review resulted in a change in the reporting of management’s internal financial information. As a result, beginning in the three months ending March 31, 2026, we will report our results under two reportable segments: (1) Specialty Equipment Rentals ("SER") and (2) Specialty Truck Equipment and Manufacturing ("STEM"). Upon implementation, the new SER segment will consist of our historical ERS segment and a portion of our historical APS segment, and the new STEM segment will consist of our historical TES segment and a portion of our historical APS segment. We will also begin reflecting intercompany activity between the two segments, which will ultimately be eliminated in consolidation. This new segment reporting reflects how CTOS’s business is managed and how resources are allocated in 2026, and management believes this new presentation better reflects the positioning of CTOS’s strategies and operations portfolio. Management expects to provide more information on the new two segments in early April. We believe our new segment realignment will better reflect key economic drivers, capital intensity, and margin profiles of the respective new segments, as well as align our external reporting with how management allocates capital and evaluates performance.
We operate with a differentiated "one-stop-shop" business model, offering equipment rental, new and used equipment sales, and aftermarket parts and service out of more than 40 locations across the U.S. and Canada. Customers receive additional support throughout the country from Custom Truck’s twenty-four hour, seven-day a week ("24/7") call center, approximately 90 mobile technicians, and over 2,600 third-party service partners. Custom Truck and its customers also benefit from its sophisticated sourcing model and large-scale integrated production and customization capabilities, which enhance the quality and diversity of its equipment offerings, reduce both cost and lead times for equipment sales and provide greater flexibility to optimize its rental fleet. These attributes, together with a strong reputation built over many years, position Custom Truck to capitalize on attractive secular growth trends across its end-markets.
Custom Truck owns one of the industry’s largest fleets of specialty rental equipment focused on electric utility transmission and distribution ("T&D"), infrastructure, rail and telecommunications end-markets through our ERS segment. As of December 31, 2025, our fleet is comprised of more than 10,400 units with an average unit age of approximately 2.9 years, which we believe is young by rental fleet standards and compares favorably to the long useful life of the equipment. Our rental fleet is managed on a national level, which allows us to efficiently reposition equipment in response to shifts in regional demand and thereby sustain strong utilization levels.
Quoted from the business section of this company’s 10-K filed March 10, 2026. Read the filing
Four distinct intelligence areas
51
Fundamentally Qualified
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Business Quality qualification score from the locked IA Defensive Research Core. Price Risk stays a separate category and is never blended in.
As of Sep 11, 2026
23
Weak Compounder
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Durable business economics and reinvestment characteristics. Independent external validation is pending.
As of Sep 11, 2026
50
Middle
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Direction and breadth of change in underlying business fundamentals. Not a price-momentum signal.
As of Sep 11, 2026
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Insufficient Data
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No tracked manager filings mapped to this company.
Not enough stored history to chart CTOS yet. A company needs at least two published research or ownership periods before a trend can be shown.
Share price
Closing prices adjusted for splits and dividends, through Sep 11, 2026. Past prices do not indicate future results.
Last stored close $9.11 · +55.7% over the selected range · 52 sessions shown
Balanced evidence
Risk and uncertainty
Public filings · descriptive only
Reporting holders
4
New holders
4
Increasing
0
Reducing
0
Exiting
0
Coverage
Excellent
Positive disclosed activity · Report period 2023-09-30 · Public 12/18/2023
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Insufficient high-confidence manager coverage.
Objective stored changes
No qualifying changes are recorded for this company in the stored research and filing history.
No high-confidence public ownership events are available.
General research only. Not personalized advice. Public filings may be delayed, amended, incomplete, or reflect positions that have changed since the reporting date.