AMT vs. CCI, PLD, PCH, PW, LANDP, LANDO, LANDM, SUI, MAA, and BXP
Should you be buying American Tower stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Tower include Crown Castle (CCI), Prologis (PLD), PotlatchDeltic (PCH), Power REIT (PW), Gladstone Land (LANDP), Gladstone Land (LANDO), Gladstone Land (LANDM), Sun Communities (SUI), Mid-America Apartment Communities (MAA), and Boston Properties (BXP).
Crown Castle (NYSE:CCI) and American Tower (NYSE:AMT) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, valuation, risk, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Crown Castle has higher earnings, but lower revenue than American Tower. Crown Castle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Tower, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
American Tower received 231 more outperform votes than Crown Castle when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.94% of users gave American Tower an outperform vote while only 69.32% of users gave Crown Castle an outperform vote.
Crown Castle has a net margin of 20.32% compared to Crown Castle's net margin of 13.31%. American Tower's return on equity of 21.30% beat Crown Castle's return on equity.
Crown Castle pays an annual dividend of $6.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. American Tower pays an annual dividend of $6.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. 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. American Tower pays out 203.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Crown Castle is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Crown Castle had 1 more articles in the media than American Tower. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Crown Castle and 15 mentions for American Tower. Crown Castle's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat American Tower's score of 0.40 indicating that American Tower is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Crown Castle presently has a consensus target price of $113.29, suggesting a potential upside of 18.85%. American Tower has a consensus target price of $217.36, suggesting a potential upside of 24.17%. Given Crown Castle's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe American Tower is more favorable than Crown Castle.
Crown Castle has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Tower has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
90.8% of Crown Castle shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of American Tower shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Crown Castle shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of American Tower shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Crown Castle and American Tower tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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