CCI vs. SBAC, DLR, PSA, SPG, O, 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), Public Storage (PSA), Simon Property Group (SPG), Realty Income (O), 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 superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, risk, valuation, earnings, community ranking and institutional ownership.
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.
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.
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 insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of SBA Communications shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, SBA Communications had 32 more articles in the media than Crown Castle. MarketBeat recorded 41 mentions for SBA Communications and 9 mentions for Crown Castle. Crown Castle's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat SBA Communications' score of 0.22 indicating that Crown Castle is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
Crown Castle presently has a consensus target price of $113.29, indicating a potential upside of 16.32%. SBA Communications has a consensus target price of $258.23, indicating a potential upside of 33.74%. Given SBA Communications' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe SBA Communications is more favorable than Crown Castle.
SBA Communications received 52 more outperform votes than Crown Castle when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.32% of users gave Crown Castle an outperform vote while only 67.34% 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 2.0%. 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.
Summary
SBA Communications beats Crown Castle on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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