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U-Haul Holding Company Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2025 Financial Results

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RENO, Nev., February 05, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--U-Haul Holding Company (NYSE: UHAL, UHAL.B), parent of U-Haul International, Inc., Oxford Life Insurance Company, Repwest Insurance Company and Amerco Real Estate Company, today reported net earnings available to shareholders for its third quarter ended December 31, 2024, of $67.2 million compared with net earnings of $99.2 million for the same period last year. Earnings per share for Non-Voting Shares (UHAL.B) were $0.35 for the third quarter of fiscal 2025 compared to $0.51 for the same period in fiscal 2024.

For the nine-month period ended December 31, 2024, net earnings available to shareholders were $449.4 million compared with net earnings of $629.6 million for the same period last year. Earnings per share for Non-Voting Shares (UHAL.B) were $2.31 for the nine-month period ended December 31, 2024 compared to $3.22 for the same period in fiscal 2024.

"Moving activity increased over the quarter as demand for our products and services ticked up," stated Joe Shoen, Chairman of U-Haul Holding Company. "We are making steady improvements to reduce friction with the customer so that it’s easier for the public to choose U-Haul."

Highlights of Third Quarter Fiscal 2025 Results

  • Moving and Storage earnings before interest, taxes and depreciation (EBITDA), adjusted to remove interest income, increased $47.8 million to $376.7 million compared to the third quarter of fiscal 2024 and for the trailing twelve months for December 31, 2024 increased $20.7 million to $1,614.1 compared to the trailing twelve months for December 31, 2023.

  • Self-storage revenues increased $16.6 million, or 7.9%, versus the third quarter of fiscal year 2024.

    • Same store occupancy decreased 0.5% to 92.4%, revenue per foot increased 3.0%, and the number of locations qualifying for the pool increased by 50.

    • Total portfolio of occupied rooms increased 39,055, or 6.8%, compared to December 31, 2023.

    • During the third quarter, we added 34 new locations with storage and 2.3 million net rentable square feet (NRSF). Twenty-three were acquisitions of existing storage locations totaling 1.3 million NRSF and eleven were internally developed. These newly developed locations along with expansion projects at existing facilities accounted for the remaining 1.0 million NRSF.

    • We have approximately 16.8 million NRSF in development or pending.

  • Self-moving equipment rental revenues increased $38.8 million, or 4.6%, compared with the third quarter of fiscal year 2024 leading to our third consecutive quarter of steadily improving year-over-year results. In-Town transactions improved, while revenue per transaction increased for both our In-Town and one-way markets. Compared to the third quarter of last year we have increased the size of the box truck fleet while decreasing the number of trucks in the pickup fleet.

  • Moving and Storage Other revenue increased $9.6 million, or 9.6%, compared with the third quarter of fiscal 2024, caused primarily by increases in both moving and storage transactions related to our U-Box program. We continue to expand our breadth and reach of this program through additional warehouse space, moving and storage containers and delivery equipment.

  • Moving and Storage earnings from operations, before consolidation of the equity in earnings of the insurance subsidiaries, adjusted to remove interest income, decreased $25.5 million compared to the third quarter of fiscal 2024.

    • Reduced gains from the disposal of retired rental equipment accounted for $32.7 million of the decrease while fleet depreciation expense increased $34.2 million and real estate related depreciation expense increased $5.6 million, all compared with the third quarter of fiscal 2024.

    • Fleet maintenance and repair costs declined $10.2 million compared with the third quarter of fiscal 2024.

  • Cash and credit availability at the Moving and Storage segment was $1,348.1 million as of December 31, 2024 compared with $1,886.3 million at March 31, 2024.

  • On December 4, 2024, we declared a cash dividend on our Non-Voting Common Stock of $0.05 per share to holders of record on December 16, 2024. The dividend was paid on December 27, 2024.