Company Analysis

Custom Truck One Source, Inc. (CTOS)

NYSE: CTOS · Services-Equipment Rental & Leasing, NEC · Kansas City, MO · filing with the SEC since 2017
Grade3.5
◀ Past 3.7● Present 3.7▶ Future 3.0

The grade of Custom Truck One Source, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
3.5/10
◀ Past3.725% of the headline
● Present3.745% of the headline
▶ Future3.030% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

3.7/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
1.5/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

4 warning events since 2017; the latest 2024-03-15.

weight 45% of this tense · 15th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Custom Truck One Source, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 4 warning events of 2 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, 2 times, the latest 2024-03-15); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, 2 times, the latest 2021-04-06) (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
6.0/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+32.6% a year over 9 filed years; profitable in 2 of 9.

weight 33% of this tense · 60th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Custom Truck One Source, Inc.'s 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $204 million in fiscal 2017 to $1.9 billion in fiscal 2025, up 32.6% a year; it rose in 7 of 8 years; the deepest fall was 3% from fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 2 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span32.6%top 5% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 35% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 5% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak3.4%top 25% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
4.9/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 2.9% a year. 25% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 49th percentile among 8 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Custom Truck One Source, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 2.9% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 25% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 45% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 44% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

3.7/1045% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
3.6/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -4%: lost 4¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 76%: owes 76¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 36th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Custom Truck One Source, Inc. lost about 4 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 12 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 76 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 4.2% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 35% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 17% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 19% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 25% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
3.5/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 35% of 10 in its family; net margin -1.6%.

weight 33% of this tense · 35th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Custom Truck One Source, Inc.'s standing among 10 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.9 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 35% by size; a net margin of -1.6% ranks in the bottom 15%; revenue growth of 7.3% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 45% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$1.94Bbottom 35% of its family
  • net margin-1.6%bottom 15% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth7.3%top 45% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
4.1/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 41% of 5 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2023.

weight 22% of this tense · 41st percentile among 5 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Custom Truck One Source, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Mcmonagle, Ryan (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2023-11-15, 3 years (bottom 42% of its family); the 11 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.6 years (top 50%); 3 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 11 people in charge now (bottom 31%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge3 in three years among 11 peoplebottom 31% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed5.6 yearstop 50% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record3.0 yearsbottom 42% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

3.0/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
3.7/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 37% of 10 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 37th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Custom Truck One Source, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $6 million against debt of $1.6 billion leaves -47.6% of its assets as net cash, bottom 25% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 16% of revenue (top 45%); a gross margin of 21.2% (bottom 31%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-47.6%bottom 25% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue16.0%top 45% of its family
  • gross margin21.2%bottom 31% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
3.0/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 30% of 10 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 30th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Custom Truck One Source, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 7.3% a year over the last three filed years against 32.6% over all 9, slowing (bottom 5% of its family); the newest year grew 7.9% (top 45%) (its annual reports). Custom Truck One Source, Inc. reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Truck and Equipment Sales at $1.1 billion (56%), Equipment Rental Solutions at $701 million (36%), Aftermarket Parts and Services at $148 million (8%); 2 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-25.3 points a yearbottom 5% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth7.9%top 45% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
2.7/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 27% of 8 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 45% of this tense · 27th percentile among 8 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Custom Truck One Source, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.9 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 0.8% above the $1.9 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 44% of its family); net income of $31 million against a prior three-year average of $20 million (bottom 6%); a net margin of -1.6% against 1.2% before (bottom 31%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace0.8%bottom 44% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-253%bottom 6% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-2.8 pointsbottom 31% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton CTOS · research, not advice