CCI vs. SBAC, DLR, O, SPG, PSA, VICI, EXR, AVB, WELL, and EQR
Should you be buying Crown Castle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crown Castle include SBA Communications (SBAC), Digital Realty Trust (DLR), Realty Income (O), Simon Property Group (SPG), Public Storage (PSA), VICI Properties (VICI), Extra Space Storage (EXR), AvalonBay Communities (AVB), Welltower (WELL), and Equity Residential (EQR). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Crown Castle (NYSE:CCI) and SBA Communications (NASDAQ:SBAC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and dividends.
90.8% of Crown Castle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.4% of SBA Communications shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Crown Castle 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 large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Crown Castle has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SBA Communications has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Crown Castle has higher revenue and earnings than SBA Communications. Crown Castle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SBA Communications, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SBA Communications received 55 more outperform votes than Crown Castle when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.25% of users gave Crown Castle an outperform vote while only 67.42% of users gave SBA Communications an outperform vote.
Crown Castle pays an annual dividend of $6.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. SBA Communications pays an annual dividend of $3.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Crown Castle pays out 195.6% 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.
Crown Castle currently has a consensus target price of $112.64, indicating a potential upside of 15.29%. SBA Communications has a consensus target price of $252.25, indicating a potential upside of 34.68%. Given SBA Communications' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SBA Communications is more favorable than Crown Castle.
SBA Communications has a net margin of 20.61% compared to Crown Castle's net margin of 20.32%. Crown Castle's return on equity of 21.30% beat SBA Communications' return on equity.
In the previous week, Crown Castle had 4 more articles in the media than SBA Communications. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Crown Castle and 12 mentions for SBA Communications. SBA Communications' average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat Crown Castle's score of 0.76 indicating that SBA Communications is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
SBA Communications beats Crown Castle on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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