SBAC vs. ARE, EQR, AVB, CCI, USM, TDS, BB, SHEN, SPOK, and DLR
Should you be buying SBA Communications stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SBA Communications include Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE), Equity Residential (EQR), AvalonBay Communities (AVB), Crown Castle (CCI), United States Cellular (USM), Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), BlackBerry (BB), Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN), Spok (SPOK), and Digital Realty Trust (DLR).
Alexandria Real Estate Equities (NYSE:ARE) and SBA Communications (NASDAQ:SBAC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.
SBA Communications has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alexandria Real Estate Equities. SBA Communications is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alexandria Real Estate Equities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Alexandria Real Estate Equities had 11 more articles in the media than SBA Communications. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Alexandria Real Estate Equities and 8 mentions for SBA Communications. Alexandria Real Estate Equities' average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat SBA Communications' score of 1.13 indicating that SBA Communications is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
96.5% of Alexandria Real Estate Equities shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.4% of SBA Communications shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Alexandria Real Estate Equities shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of SBA Communications shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities presently has a consensus price target of $136.75, suggesting a potential upside of 19.44%. SBA Communications has a consensus price target of $252.17, suggesting a potential upside of 30.39%. Given Alexandria Real Estate Equities' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe SBA Communications is more favorable than Alexandria Real Estate Equities.
SBA Communications received 335 more outperform votes than Alexandria Real Estate Equities when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.39% of users gave SBA Communications an outperform vote while only 64.97% of users gave Alexandria Real Estate Equities an outperform vote.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities pays an annual dividend of $5.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. SBA Communications pays an annual dividend of $3.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Alexandria Real Estate Equities pays out 474.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SBA Communications pays out 76.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alexandria Real Estate Equities has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and SBA Communications has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SBA Communications has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SBA Communications has a net margin of 20.61% compared to SBA Communications' net margin of 6.65%. SBA Communications' return on equity of 0.87% beat Alexandria Real Estate Equities' return on equity.
Summary
SBA Communications beats Alexandria Real Estate Equities on 16 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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