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U-Haul (UHAL) Risk Analysis
Risk Overview Q2, 2026
Source: the company's latest filing for the period ended Jun 30, 2026, filed Aug 05, 2026
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- Cyber Security - Risk 1Our response to cybersecurity incidents, our investments in our technology, and our controls, processes, and practices, may not be sufficient to shield us from significant losses or liability.
The techniques used to obtain unauthorized access, disable or degrade service, or sabotage systems change frequently and are increasingly sophisticated, including as a result of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. Moreover, the techniques used may be difficult to detect and often are not recognized until launched against a target. As a result, we may not anticipate an attack or respond adequately or timely, and the extent of a particular incident may not be immediately clear. It could take significant time before an investigation can be completed and reliable information about the incident becomes known. During an investigation, it is possible we may not know the extent of the harm, or how to remediate it, which could further adversely impact us. Regulations could result in us being required to disclose information about a cybersecurity incident before it has been fully investigated, mitigated, or resolved. Due to the risk of allegations by plaintiffs' counsel or government regulators armed with the benefit of hindsight, we may be required to disclose information about a cybersecurity incident even before we determine whether it was material. In addition, because our systems contain information about individuals and businesses, our failure to maintain the security of the data we hold, whether because of our own error or the malfeasance or errors of others, could lead to unauthorized access or the release of personally identifiable or otherwise confidential or protected information. Our failure to maintain the security of the data we hold could also violate applicable privacy, data security and other laws and subject us to lawsuits and regulatory enforcement resulting in fines. Regulators have been imposing new data privacy and security requirements, including new and greater monetary fines for privacy violations, such as those under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act. Other U.S. states and Canadian provinces have also proposed or adopted their own data protection legislation or regulations, which are often broad in scope and subject to evolving interpretations and increasing enforcement. Some of these laws and regulations provide for statutory damages or fines even if we have used commercially reasonable efforts to protect our data and systems but a bad actor breaches our cybersecurity defenses and gains access to personally identifiable information. Even if no party incurs any actual damages, we could be punished by the government for criminal cyberattacks by bad actors, and the fines or other costs imposed upon us could reach amounts that could have a material adverse effect on us, our results of operations, and financial condition. In addition, new and existing data privacy laws and regulations could diverge and conflict with each other in certain respects, making compliance increasingly difficult. Complying with new regulatory requirements could require us to incur substantial expenses and change our business. As regulators become increasingly focused on information security, data collection, and privacy, we may be required to devote significant additional resources to dealing with their demands. We experience daily threats to our data, and we have experienced cybersecurity incidents in the past. Although past events have not resulted in a material impact on our business strategy, results of operations or financial condition, we cannot provide assurance that we will not experience future cybersecurity incidents or that such incidents will not have a material impact on our business strategy, results of operations, or financial condition.
- Technology - Risk 2The moving and storage industry is experiencing rapid changes in technology.
Numerous competitors and potential competitors are working to establish paradigm shifting technologies from self-driving vehicles to vehicle sharing services and other technologies that connect riders with vehicles. Additionally, customer demand for ease of online or app-based management of their moving and storage transactions continues to grow. Customers also increasingly turn to new technologies, such as artificial intelligence apps and chatbots to locate and compare products, including moving and storage products, and we may not successfully adapt our marketing and ability to reach customers through these new and developing platforms. There may be other innovations and technologies that could impact the do-it-yourself moving and storage industries that we cannot yet foresee. We actively develop and deploy new technologies, but we cannot ensure that our initiatives will be successful or timely, and our failure to effectively implement any initiative could have an adverse impact on our financial condition or results of operations.
Risk Highlights Q2, 2026
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- Regulation - Risk 1We are highly regulated and changes in existing laws and regulations or violations of existing or future laws and regulations could have a material adverse effect on our operations and profitability.
Our truck, trailer, self-storage, and U-Box container rental business is subject to regulation by various federal, state and provincial governmental entities in the United States and Canada. For example, the U.S. Department of Transportation and various state, federal and Canadian agencies exercise broad powers over our motor carrier operations, safety, and the generation, handling, storage, treatment and disposal of waste materials. In addition, our business is also subject to federal, state, provincial and local laws and regulations relating to environmental protection, land use, and human health and safety, among other matters. The failure to comply with any of these laws and regulations may adversely affect our ability to sell or rent our equipment or property or to use our property as collateral for future borrowings. In addition, zoning choices enacted by individual municipalities in the United States and Canada may limit our ability to serve certain markets with our products and services. Compliance with changing laws and regulations could substantially impair real property and equipment productivity and increase our costs. In addition, we may become subject to federal, state, or provincial regulations that set a maximum amount of carbon emissions individual entities can emit without penalty or we may become subject to carbon-based taxes. Such regulations or taxes would likely affect everyone who uses fossil fuels and would disproportionately affect users in the highway transportation industries. We have no evidence to support a belief that "do-it-yourself" moving customers are willing to accept any additional costs that could result from such penalties or taxes. Should such penalties or taxes be enacted, we could see an increase in expenses, including compliance costs and a negative effect on our operating margin. As our U-Box operations increasingly provide services to customers for moves to countries other than the United States and Canada, we may also be exposed to laws and regulations in those other countries. The need to comply with any such laws or regulations could increase expenses. Our insurance companies are heavily regulated by state insurance departments and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. These insurance regulations are primarily in place to protect the interests of our policyholders and not our investors. Any new laws or regulations applicable to our insurance companies or any changes in existing laws and regulations could increase our costs, inhibit new sales, or limit our ability to implement rate increases.
- Regulation - Risk 2Existing and future laws or regulations favoring electric, autonomous, and connected vehicles may negatively impact the composition of our fleet and negatively affect our business and results of operations.
Regulatory pressure in connection with the introduction and expansion of electric, autonomous, and connected rental vehicles could require infrastructure improvement that could inhibit our current business model and negatively impact our ability to acquire, or increase our cost of acquisition for rental trucks. For example, the Advanced Clean Fleets regulation ("ACF") adopted by the California Air Resources Board ("CARB") would have required us to phase out certain internal combustion engine vehicles from our fleet and replace them with so-called zero-emission vehicles ("ZEVs"). California must request and receive a waiver from the Environmental Protection Agency to enforce the ACF, and for now it has withdrawn its request for such a waiver. If California seeks and obtains such a waiver in the future, then to accommodate ZEVs, our Company-operated locations and independent dealer network may require physical upgrades that are uneconomical and/or unachievable. In addition, because many of our trucks are used by our customers for one-way interstate moves, if the ACF or similar laws or regulations are adopted by federal, state, or provincial governments or regulators in the future, it could materially and negatively affect our operations across North America because our one-way rental trucks travel throughout the U.S. and Canada. Under any such laws, our one-way rental business would depend, in whole or in part, on an in-transit recharging network throughout the United States and Canada to support electric vehicles or ZEVs. Such a recharging network does not exist today, and even if one is built, the increased rental cost, and time and cost required to charge electric vehicles or ZEVs may be so great as to substantially limit our ability to serve customers needing to move long distances. We cooperate with original equipment manufacturers ("OEM's"), maintain and train our own technical experts, and operate an equipment Technical Center that has positioned us as an industry leader in innovation for over fifty years. However, any legal or regulatory changes that would require electric, autonomous, or connected vehicles in our fleet would raise challenges of enormous scale. Our repair and maintenance infrastructures, including both physical plants as well as personnel, may be inappropriate for these new types of vehicles. Without such repair and maintenance capabilities it could compromise our ability to operate a fleet of electric vehicles or ZEVs. We may also need to depend upon third party providers for some of those services, and they may not be able to provide workable solutions. There is a risk that we may not be able to adequately prepare for these possibilities. In addition, even if we successfully adapt to any such changes, there can be no guarantee that our fleet or services as adapted would meet the needs of our "do-it-yourself" moving and storage customers, or that we would be able to offer our products and services at prices our customers would be willing or able to pay. We are encouraged by the Trump Administration's actions to reverse and limit federal and state emission and other requirements that would effectively limit the availability of internal combustion vehicles for fleets such as ours. However, there is no assurance that courts or a future Congress or administration will not reverse such actions by the Trump Administration or that California will not apply for and receive a waiver for the ACF. In addition, an existing agreement between OEM's and California may require OEM's to meet California's emissions requirements and sales mandates for electric vehicles or ZEVs even if CARB's regulations cannot be enforced. If that occurs, we may not be able to successfully adapt to the requirements of a changed regulatory or commercial environment that favors or requires all-electric or specific alternative fuel vehicles. Any insistence by governments that the future of the economy will be based on all-electric vehicles instead of hybrid or other alternative fuel vehicles may result in government regulators knowingly or unknowingly choosing the winners and losers in an evolving transportation environment. It is possible that they may not choose U-Haul customers and U-Haul to be among the winners. In addition, any such insistence may create an infrastructure in which personal interstate travel would be uneconomical or severely regulated, which could materially and adversely affect our moving business, results of operations, and financial position. In addition, there is growing evidence that consumers may refuse to support an all-electric solution for their moving needs, squeezing U-Haul between government demands and consumer preferences.
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