HERTZ REPORTS FOURTH QUARTER AND FULL YEAR 2024 RESULTS

Q4 2024 

• Revenue of $2.0 billion
• GAAP net loss of $479 million, or $1.56 loss per diluted share

FY 2024

• Revenue of $9.0 billion
• GAAP net loss of $2.9 billion, or $9.34 loss per diluted share
• 30,000 EV fleet reduction announced in 2023 has been completed
• Strong corporate liquidity of $1.8 billion at December 31, 2024

OVERVIEW 

The Company has been executing a commercial strategy aimed at maximizing RPU, primarily by driving a greater mix of high RPD business coupled with keeping fleet capacity inside demand. As a result, year over year RPU declines narrowed from down 7% in the first quarter of 2024 to down only 1% in the fourth quarter.

Vehicle depreciation improved 19% year over year in the fourth quarter. Fourth quarter 2023 included $245 million of loss on sale for EV's stemming from the Company's EV fleet reduction plan that did not recur in the fourth quarter of 2024. This benefit was partially offset by loss on sales experienced in the fourth quarter of 2024 largely driven by the impacts of higher-than-normal defleeting. The Company is in the midst of a fleet rotation aimed at normalizing DPU that is expected to be substantially complete by the end of 2025, at which time it expects DPU to settle below $300.

In the fourth quarter, direct vehicle and operating expenses rose by 2% compared to the previous year. The increase was primarily due to insurance cost headwinds and the recognition of additional non-cash rent expense, which primarily resulted from leases expense recognition post the long-lived asset impairment in the third quarter of 2024. This, combined with lower volume, drove a 6% year over year increase in DOE per transaction day. Selling, general and administrative expenses improved 9% year over year in the fourth quarter, due mostly to lower personnel and advertising expenses. The Company is laser-focused on its continued execution of structural operational efficiencies, including initiatives to lower insurance costs, that it expects will drive ongoing improvements in per day unit costs.

Adjusted Corporate EBITDA loss narrowed year over year in the fourth quarter to negative $357 million.

The Company is in the midst of an operational transformation grounded in its back to basics strategy aimed at strengthening the core business. The Company is laser-focused on excellence in execution of this strategy. The operational transformation is ongoing and is expected to be substantially completed by the end of 2025.

SUMMARY RESULTS

EARNINGS WEBCAST INFORMATION

Hertz Global's live webcast and conference call to discuss its fourth quarter 2024 results will be held on February 13, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The conference call will be broadcast live in listen-only mode on the Company's investor relations website at IR.Hertz.com. If you would like to access the call by phone and ask a question, please go to Hertz Q4 and FY 2024 earnings teleco registration, and you will be provided with dial in details. Investors are encouraged to dial-in approximately 15 minutes prior to the call. A web replay will remain available on the website for approximately one year. The earnings release and related supplemental schedules containing the reconciliations of non-GAAP measures will be available on the Hertz website, IR.Hertz.com.

UNAUDITED FINANCIAL DATA, SUPPLEMENTAL SCHEDULES, NON-GAAP MEASURES AND DEFINITIONS

In this earnings release, we include select unaudited financial data of Hertz Global, Supplemental Schedules, which are provided to present segment results, and reconciliations of non-GAAP measures to their most comparable GAAP measures. Following the Supplemental Schedules, the Company provides definitions for terminology used throughout the earnings release and its rationale on the importance and usefulness of non-GAAP measures for investors and management.

ABOUT HERTZ

Hertz Global Holdings Inc. is one of the world's leading car rental and mobility solutions providers. Its subsidiaries and licensees operate the Hertz, Dollar, Thrifty and Firefly vehicle rental brands with more than 11,000 rental locations in 160 countries around the globe, as well as the Hertz Car Sales brand, which offers a range of quality, competitively priced used cars for sale online and at locations across the US, and the Hertz 24/7 car sharing business in Europe. For more information about Hertz, visit www.hertz.com.

CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS   

Certain statements contained or incorporated by reference in this release, and in related comments by the Company's management, include "forward-looking statements." Forward-looking statements are identified by words such as "believe," "expect," "project," "potential," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "estimate," "seek," "will," "may," "would," "should," "could," "forecasts," "guidance" or similar expressions, and include information concerning our liquidity, our results of operations, our business strategies, economic and industry conditions and other information. These forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions that the Company has made in light of its experience in the industry, as well as its perceptions of historical trends, current conditions, expected future developments and other factors. The Company believes these judgments are reasonable, but you should understand that these forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance or results, and that the Company's actual results could differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements due to a variety of important factors, both positive and negative, that may be revised or supplemented in subsequent reports, such as Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K filed or furnished to the SEC.

Important factors that could affect the Company's actual results and cause them to differ materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements include, among other things.

• mix of program and non-program vehicles in the Company's fleet, which can lead to increased exposure to residual value risk upon disposition;
• the potential for residual values associated with non-program vehicles in the Company's fleet to decline, including suddenly or unexpectedly, or fail to follow historical seasonal patterns;
• the Company's ability to purchase adequate supplies of competitively priced vehicles at a reasonable cost in order to efficiently service rental demand, including upon any disruptions in the global supply chain;
• the Company's ability to effectively dispose of vehicles, at the times and through the channels, that maximize the Company's returns;
• the age of the Company's fleet, and its impact on vehicle carrying costs, customer service scores, as well as on the Company's ability to sell vehicles at acceptable prices and times;
• disruptions in the supply chain, including in connection with any increase in tariffs;
• whether a manufacturer of the Company's program vehicle fulfills its repurchase obligations;
• the frequency or extent of manufacturer safety recalls;
• levels of travel demand, particularly business and leisure travel in the U.S. and in global markets;
• seasonality and other occurrences that disrupt rental activity during the Company's peak periods, including in critical geographies;
• the Company's ability to accurately estimate future levels of rental activity and adjust the number, location and mix of vehicles used in the Company's rental operations accordingly;
• the Company's ability to implement its business strategy or strategic transactions, including the Company's ability to implement plans to support a modern mobility ecosystem;
• the Company's ability to achieve cost savings and normalized depreciation levels, as well as revenue enhancements from its profitability initiatives and other operational programs;
• the Company's ability to adequately respond to changes in technology impacting the mobility industry;
• significant changes in the competitive environment and the effect of competition in the Company's markets on rental volume and pricing;
• the Company's reliance on third-party distribution channels and related prices, commission structures and transaction volumes;
• the Company's ability to offer services for a favorable customer experience, and to retain and develop customer loyalty and market share;
• the Company's ability to maintain its network of leases and vehicle rental concessions at airports and other key locations in the U.S. and internationally;
• the Company's ability to maintain favorable brand recognition and a coordinated branding and portfolio strategy;
• the Company's ability to attract and retain effective front-line employees, senior management and other key employees;
• the Company's ability to effectively manage its union relations and labor agreement negotiations;
• the Company's ability to manage and respond to cybersecurity threats and cyber attacks on the Company's information technology systems or those of the Company's third-party providers;
• the Company's ability, and that of the Company's key third-party partners, to prevent the misuse or theft of information the Company possesses, including as a result of cyber attacks and other security threats;
• the Company's ability to evaluate, maintain, upgrade and consolidate its information technology systems;
• the Company's ability to comply with current and future laws and regulations in the U.S. and internationally regarding data protection, data security and privacy risks;
• risks associated with operating in many different countries, including the risk of a violation or alleged violation of applicable anti-corruption or anti-bribery laws and the Company's ability to repatriate cash from non-U.S. affiliates without adverse tax consequences;
• risks relating to tax laws, including those that affect the Company's ability to recapture accelerated tax depreciation and expensing, as well as any adverse determinations or rulings by tax authorities;
• the Company's ability to utilize its net operating loss carryforwards;
• the Company's exposure to uninsured liabilities relating to personal injury, death and property damage, or otherwise, including material litigation;
• the potential for adverse changes in laws, regulations, policies or other activities of governments, agencies and similar organizations, including those related to environmental matters, optional insurance products or policies, franchising and licensing matters, the ability to pass-through rental car related expenses or taxes, among others, that affect the Company's operations, the Company's costs or applicable tax rates;
• the risk of an impairment of the Company's long-lived assets, which risk could be impacted by, among other things, the timing of our fleet rotation;
• the Company's ability to recover its goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets when performing impairment analysis;
• the potential for changes in management's best estimates and assessments;
• the Company's ability to maintain an effective compliance program;
• the availability of earnings and funds from the Company's subsidiaries;
• the Company's ability to comply, and the cost and burden of complying, with corporate and social responsibility regulations or expectations of stakeholders, and otherwise advance the Company's corporate responsibility priorities;
• the availability of additional, or continued sources, of financing at acceptable rates for the Company's revenue earning vehicles and to refinance the Company's existing indebtedness, and the Company's ability to comply with the covenants in the agreements governing its indebtedness;
• the extent to which the Company's consolidated assets secure its outstanding indebtedness;
• volatility in the Company's share price, the Company's ownership structure and certain provisions of the Company's charter documents, which could, among other things, negatively affect the market price of the Company's common stock;
• the Company's ability to implement an effective business continuity plan to protect the business in exigent circumstances;
• the Company's ability to effectively maintain effective internal control over financial reporting; and
• the Company's ability to execute strategic transactions.

Additional information concerning these and other factors can be found in the Company's filings with the SEC, including its Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quartely Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K

You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements attributable to the Company, or persons acting on its behalf, are expressly qualified in their entirety by the foregoing cautionary statements. All such statements speak only as of the date of this release, and, except as required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.