Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc (SUNB)
Equipment rental, 26,016, North America and the U.K. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending April 30, 2026, filed June 23, 2026. Ranked 5 of the 75 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
24%
End of 2028
34%
Employees, annual report
26,016
Leading staffing pattern
Rental and Leasing Services (5322, 5323, and 5324 only)
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now24%
- End of 202732%
- End of 202834%
- End of 203034%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 65%
- Becomes checking a model's work 24%
- Handed over with lighter checks 11%
An equipment rental company whose filing states full-time and part-time counts by region and a union share, and nothing by kind of work, so the whole workforce takes the rental pattern.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 24% now, 32% at the end of 2027, 34% at the end of 2028, 34% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 34% desk work, 20% people work and 46% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 65% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 24% becomes checking a model's work and 11% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
26,016 employees as of April 30, 2026 (sum of stated parts). The filing states 21,826 employees in North America (84%) and 4,190 in the United Kingdom, not a U.S. count.
The filing: “As of April 30, 2026, our worldwide workforce consisted of 25,751 full-time and 265 part-time employees, of which 21,826 were located in North America and 4,190 were located in the United Kingdom.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Rental and Leasing Services (5322, 5323, and 5324 only) | 100% | By description (c): the filing describes one business, equipment rental from a network of stores in North America and the United Kingdom, with dispatchers, drivers and technicians named in its technology sections and no count by kind of work, so the whole workforce takes the equipment rental pattern. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 25,751 full-time and 265 part-time employees as of April 30, 2026; 21,826 in North America and 4,190 in the United Kingdom; about 7% of North American employees are members of laborers', teamsters' or operating engineers' unions; staff costs of $2,616 million are the largest cost.
What the filing says about AI
7 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI 7 times: a machine learning logistics platform used by dispatchers, AI guided repair workflows for technicians, and the need to keep up with AI as a competitive matter.
- “Our Vehicle Delivery Optimization System 4.0 ("VDOS 4.0"), is a machine learning-powered logistics platform used by dispatchers to manage deliveries and collections of equipment at job sites and to schedule drivers for these services.”
- “Service 360 provides technician optimization and prioritization, AI powered prescriptive and guided repair workflows informed by historical failure and repair data, and failure prevention alerts that surface root cause and step-by-step corrective actions.”
- “Our ability to continually improve our current processes and customer-facing tools in response to changes in technology, including artificial intelligence ("AI"), or changes in customer expectations, is essential in maintaining our competitive position and maintaining current levels of customer satisfaction.”
- “Moreover, the use and implementation of new technology, particularly AI, may also be associated with increasing costs, as new laws and regulations relating to information security and data privacy and protection emerge.”
- “Cyber threats are constantly evolving, especially given the advances in, and the rise in the use of, AI, thereby increasing the difficulty of preventing, detecting and successfully defending against them.”
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | 25,751 | 2026-06-23 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The headcount is the sum of the stated full-time and part-time parts (rule 2).
- One pattern by description: the filing gives no count by kind of work.
- The filing counts North America, not the United States, so the U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-044888, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 24% now and 34% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc employ?
- 26,016 as of April 30, 2026, as its annual report for the period ending April 30, 2026 states as the sum of the parts it gives.
- What kinds of work make up Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Rental and Leasing Services (5322, 5323, and 5324 only); by those patterns the work is about 34% desk work, 20% people work and 46% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc's annual report say about AI?
- 7 sentences in the filing name AI. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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