WillScot Holdings is a modular space rental business carrying significant quality and risk headwinds: quality scores sit below minimum thresholds, short interest stands at 18%, and the put/call ratio has reached 1.81, suggesting the market is skewed bearish relative to the current price.
Thesis pillars
- Quality Below Threshold→Stable
- High Short Interest Pressure↑Improving
- Earnings Inconsistency↑Improving
- +1 more pillar — see the Why tab for full reasoning
Pillars as of Jul 3, 2026, based on the 10-K filed Feb 19, 2026
WillScot Holdings Corporation (WSC) Stock Analysis
Recovery setup
Industrials · Rental & Leasing Services
Sell if holding. Multiple concerning factors at $18.34: V7 low-quality RISK_OFF penalty: -0.5 (Q=4.1); Sector modifier (Industrials): -0.7.
WillScot Holdings Corporation leases modular office complexes, portable storage containers, and other temporary space solutions from approximately 260 branch locations in the US, Canada, and Mexico, serving over 85,000 customers in 15 distinct end markets. For fiscal 2025,... Read more
Sell if holding. Multiple concerning factors at $18.34: V7 low-quality RISK_OFF penalty: -0.5 (Q=4.1); Sector modifier (Industrials): -0.7. Chart setup: Death cross but MACD improving, RSI 58. Score 4.7/10, high confidence.
Passes 6/9 gates (positive momentum, favorable risk/reward ratio, clean insider activity, news events none recent, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on earnings proximity 5d<=7d. Suitability: aggressive.
About WillScot Holdings Corporation
About WillScot Holdings Corporation
WillScot Holdings Corporation's fleet of over 304,000 units — including 128,000 modular space units and 176,000 portable storage units — carried a net book value of $3.1 billion at December 31, 2025, deployed across approximately 260 branch locations in the US, Canada, and Mexico. Commercial and industrial customers generated approximately 43% of revenues and construction and infrastructure customers approximately 42% in fiscal 2025, drawn from a base of over 85,000 customers in which no single account exceeded 2% of revenues.
WillScot earns revenue primarily from recurring lease payments on 28-day or monthly billing cycles, averaging 42 months effective duration across the consolidated lease portfolio at December 31, 2025 — roughly 39 months for modular space units and over 45 months for portable storage containers. Modular space units carry economic lives exceeding 20 years with average residual values exceeding 50%; portable storage containers have 30-year estimated useful lives and similarly high residual values, enabling profitable resale of used fleet. Value-added products — including workstations, power and solar solutions, telematics, security systems, and perimeter solutions — generate incremental revenue above base rental rates. Over 90% of new lease orders in fiscal 2025 were subject to standard or pre-negotiated agreements. The 10-K notes the company experienced declining new contract activations and units on rent over the three years ending December 31, 2025, driven by a pullback in non-residential construction starts from late-2022 peak levels — a structural sensitivity given construction and infrastructure (42% of revenues) and commercial and industrial markets (43%) are both cyclical.
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Utilization at December 31, 2025 stood at 68% for modular space units (87,000 of 128,000 on rent) and 56% for portable storage units (99,000 of 176,000 on rent), indicating substantial latent fleet capacity. The company's Network Optimization Plan — designed to exit underperforming leased branch locations and rationalize idle fleet — carries execution risk: if non-residential construction demand recovers faster than branch exits proceed, the plan could impair supply availability in certain markets. The 10-K tracks the Architecture Billing Index and put-in-place construction spending as leading demand indicators; a sustained decline in either metric would extend the current trough and delay recovery of units on rent toward prior-peak levels.
See also: Industrials · Rental & Leasing Services
From WillScot Holdings Corporation's most recent 10-K filing, extracted June 16, 2026.
Recent developments
updated 2026-10-31Recent Developments — WillScot Holdings Corporation
Latest news
- NEWS WillScot Holdings Corporation Announces Third Quarter 2026 Earnings Release Date — fiscal.ai Oct 22, 2026
- NEWS UBS Maintains Neutral on WillScot Holdings, Lowers Price Target to $18 — benzinga Oct 16, 2026 negative
- NEWS Citigroup Maintains Buy on WillScot Holdings, Lowers Price Target to $21 — benzinga Oct 12, 2026 negative
- NEWS Baird Maintains Neutral on WillScot Holdings, Lowers Price Target to $21 — benzinga Oct 12, 2026 neutral
- NEWS Barclays Maintains Equal-Weight on WillScot Holdings, Raises Price Target to $26 — benzinga Aug 10, 2026 neutral
Generated 2026-10-31T13:02:21Z.
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- 2026-06-08Item 5.02LOWWillScot Holdings Corporation 2026 Incentive Award Plan approved by stockholders at June 5, 2026 Annual Meeting, replacing the 2020 Plan; authorizes up to 5,705,781 shares of common stock. No officer departure.SEC filing →
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3 floor-breakers
Ranks in the bottom of its industry peers on the composite signal. Better names in the same sector exist.static
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Sell if holding. Multiple concerning factors at $18.34: V7 low-quality RISK_OFF penalty: -0.5 (Q=4.1); Sector modifier (Industrials): -0.7. Chart setup: Death cross but MACD improving, RSI 58. Prior stop was $17.06. Score 4.7/10, high confidence.
Analyst target: $22.79 (+24.3% upside). Prior stop was $17.06. Stop-loss: $17.06.
V7 low-quality RISK_OFF penalty: -0.5 (Q=4.1); Sector modifier (Industrials): -0.7; Leverage penalty (D/E 4.2): -1.5.
WillScot Holdings Corporation trades at a P/E of N/A (forward 14.2). TrendMatrix value score: 7.4/10. Verdict: Sell.
14 analysts cover WSC with a consensus score of 3.7/5. Average price target: $26.
What does WillScot Holdings Corporation do?WillScot Holdings Corporation leases modular office complexes, portable storage containers, and other temporary space...
WillScot Holdings Corporation leases modular office complexes, portable storage containers, and other temporary space solutions from approximately 260 branch locations in the US, Canada, and Mexico, serving over 85,000 customers in 15 distinct end markets. For fiscal 2025, commercial and industrial customers represented 43% of revenues and construction and infrastructure customers 42%, with a fleet of over 304,000 units at a net book value of $3.1 billion. No single customer accounted for more than 2% of revenues.