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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Stocks - Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
IRM Iron Mountain	$78.04 +0.6%	$78.23	$52.81 ▼ $82.19	$22.88B	0.96	1.42 million shs	897,592 shs
MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities	$132.99 -2.3%	$129.95	$115.56 ▼ $158.46	$15.54B	0.8	884,445 shs	676,387 shs
SUI Sun Communities	$116.72 +0.2%	$124.94	$102.74 ▼ $141.52	$14.55B	0.83	816,404 shs	761,112 shs
WPC W. P. Carey	$56.79 -1.7%	$55.98	$51.36 ▼ $73.38	$12.43B	0.86	1.36 million shs	866,127 shs

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Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
IRM Iron Mountain	+1.08%	+0.14%	-1.28%	+14.46%	+38.65%
MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities	-0.50%	+4.76%	+7.15%	+8.80%	-10.37%
SUI Sun Communities	+0.68%	+4.58%	-5.27%	-6.44%	-14.15%
WPC W. P. Carey	+0.28%	+5.32%	+4.52%	-5.16%	-21.08%

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MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
IRM Iron Mountain	3.1337 of 5 stars	1.3	2.0	1.7	3.2	2.6	2.5	1.3
MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities	4.4273 of 5 stars	2.1	3.0	4.2	2.9	2.4	2.5	1.9
SUI Sun Communities	4.6799 of 5 stars	3.3	3.0	2.5	2.8	3.7	2.5	1.3
WPC W. P. Carey	4.8488 of 5 stars	3.0	4.0	2.5	2.8	3.1	1.7	3.1

Analyst Ratings

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
IRM Iron Mountain	2.60	Moderate Buy	$73.80	-5.43% Downside
MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities	2.13	Hold	$144.18	8.41% Upside
SUI Sun Communities	2.55	Moderate Buy	$138.92	19.02% Upside
WPC W. P. Carey	1.91	Reduce	$63.18	11.26% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings

Latest WPC, IRM, MAA, and SUI Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
5/6/2024	MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities	Wedbush Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Neutral ➝ Outperform	$135.00 ➝ $154.00
5/3/2024	WPC W. P. Carey	Royal Bank of Canada Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$65.00 ➝ $63.00
5/2/2024	SUI Sun Communities	JMP Securities Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Market Outperform ➝ Market Outperform	$150.00
5/1/2024	SUI Sun Communities	Royal Bank of Canada Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$142.00 ➝ $130.00
5/1/2024	SUI Sun Communities	Evercore ISI Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$145.00 ➝ $128.00
4/29/2024	MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities	Wedbush Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$135.00
4/23/2024	SUI Sun Communities	JMP Securities Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Market Outperform ➝ Market Outperform	$150.00
4/9/2024	MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$152.00 ➝ $148.00
3/27/2024	WPC W. P. Carey	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Equal Weight	$40.00
3/26/2024	MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$140.00
3/21/2024	SUI Sun Communities	Compass Point Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$116.00 ➝ $125.00

(Data available from 5/8/2021 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
IRM Iron Mountain	$5.48B	4.17	$4.71 per share	16.57	$0.73 per share	106.90
MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities	$2.15B	7.23	$9.64 per share	13.80	$53.82 per share	2.47
SUI Sun Communities	$3.22B	4.51	$6.38 per share	18.30	$59.74 per share	1.95
WPC W. P. Carey	$1.70B	7.30	$6.13 per share	9.27	$39.82 per share	1.43

Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
IRM Iron Mountain	$184.23M	$0.66	118.24	17.54	4.51	5.45%	282.93%	3.74%	8/1/2024 (Estimated)
MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities	$552.81M	$4.77	27.88	14.53	3.41	25.92%	8.90%	4.90%	7/24/2024 (Estimated)
SUI Sun Communities	-$201M	$1.16	100.62	15.40	1.05	4.46%	1.87%	0.84%	7/24/2024 (Estimated)
WPC W. P. Carey	$708.33M	$2.63	21.59	12.24	0.45	33.65%	6.41%	3.13%	7/26/2024 (Estimated)

Latest WPC, IRM, MAA, and SUI Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
5/2/2024	Q1 2024	MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities	$2.23	$1.22	-$1.01	$1.22	$541.44 million	$543.60 million
2/22/2024	Q4 23	IRM Iron Mountain	$1.00	$0.52	-$0.48	$0.94	$1.45 billion	$1.42 billion
2/9/2024	12/31/2023	WPC W. P. Carey	$0.52	$0.66	+$0.14	$0.66	$413.04 million	$410.38 million
2/8/2024	Q4 23	MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities	$2.30	$1.37	-$0.93	$1.37	$542.64 million	$542.25 million

Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
IRM Iron Mountain	$2.60	3.33%	+0.84%	393.95%	1 Years
MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities	$5.88	4.42%	+11.88%	123.27%	15 Years
SUI Sun Communities	$3.76	3.22%	+5.59%	324.14%	8 Years
WPC W. P. Carey	$3.46	6.09%	-0.85%	131.56%	1 Years

Latest WPC, IRM, MAA, and SUI Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
5/2/2024	IRM Iron Mountain	quarterly	$0.65	3.33%	6/17/2024	6/17/2024	7/5/2024
3/19/2024	MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities	quarterly	$1.47	4.51%	4/12/2024	4/15/2024	4/30/2024
3/1/2024	SUI Sun Communities	quarterly	$0.94	2.83%	3/27/2024	3/29/2024	4/15/2024
3/14/2024	WPC W. P. Carey	quarterly	$0.8650	6.23%	3/27/2024	3/28/2024	4/15/2024
2/22/2024	IRM Iron Mountain	Quarterly	$0.65	3.61%	3/14/2024	3/15/2024	4/4/2024

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
IRM Iron Mountain	674.63	0.86	0.86
MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities	0.74	0.12	0.12
SUI Sun Communities	1.08	1.78	1.78
WPC W. P. Carey	0.87	0.90	0.90

Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
IRM Iron Mountain	80.13%
MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities	93.60%
SUI Sun Communities	99.59%
WPC W. P. Carey	73.73%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
IRM Iron Mountain	2.10%
MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities	1.30%
SUI Sun Communities	1.89%
WPC W. P. Carey	1.18%

Miscellaneous

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
IRM Iron Mountain	27,000	293.13 million	286.98 million	Optionable
MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities	2,427	116.83 million	115.31 million	Optionable
SUI Sun Communities	6,780	124.63 million	122.28 million	Optionable
WPC W. P. Carey	197	218.83 million	216.24 million	Optionable

WPC, IRM, MAA, and SUI Headlines

Source	Headline
	W. P. Carey Inc. Announces Pricing of €650 Million of Senior Unsecured Notes prnewswire.com - May 7 at 4:05 PM
	W.P. Carey: Who's Gonna Carey The Boats? seekingalpha.com - May 7 at 11:29 AM
	W. P. Carey Inc. (NYSE:WPC) Shares Sold by Swiss National Bank marketbeat.com - May 7 at 6:45 AM
	W. P. Carey Inc. (NYSE:WPC) Given Consensus Recommendation of "Reduce" by Analysts americanbankingnews.com - May 7 at 1:44 AM
	Amalgamated Bank Increases Stake in W. P. Carey Inc. (NYSE:WPC) marketbeat.com - May 5 at 9:35 AM
	W. P. Carey (NYSE:WPC) PT Lowered to $63.00 americanbankingnews.com - May 5 at 4:44 AM
	Commonwealth Equity Services LLC Has $92.51 Million Stake in W. P. Carey Inc. (NYSE:WPC) marketbeat.com - May 3 at 9:19 PM
	W. P. Carey (NYSE:WPC) Price Target Cut to $63.00 by Analysts at Royal Bank of Canada marketbeat.com - May 3 at 8:08 PM
	W. P. Carey Inc. Just Beat EPS By 29%: Here's What Analysts Think Will Happen Next finance.yahoo.com - May 3 at 8:33 AM
	W. P. Carey Inc.: W. P. Carey Announces First Quarter 2024 Financial Results finanznachrichten.de - May 2 at 5:32 PM
	W. P. Carey Inc. (NYSE:WPC) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript finance.yahoo.com - May 2 at 5:32 PM
	My Top 6 Income Investments Right Now seekingalpha.com - May 2 at 7:31 AM
	W.P. Carey Inc (WPC) (Q1 2024) Earnings Call Transcript Highlights: Strategic Moves and Robust ... finance.yahoo.com - May 2 at 7:31 AM
	W. P. Carey First Quarter 2024 Earnings: EPS Beats Expectations, Revenues Lag finance.yahoo.com - May 2 at 7:31 AM
	W. P. Carey Stock Q1 Earnings: Time To Buy Hand-Over-Fist seekingalpha.com - May 2 at 7:00 AM
	Russell Investments Group Ltd. Raises Stake in W. P. Carey Inc. (NYSE:WPC) marketbeat.com - May 2 at 5:55 AM
	Q1 2024 WP Carey Inc Earnings Call Transcript gurufocus.com - May 2 at 1:01 AM
	W. P. Carey Inc. 2024 Q1 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation seekingalpha.com - May 1 at 3:11 PM
	Retirement Systems of Alabama Purchases Shares of 273,875 W. P. Carey Inc. (NYSE:WPC) marketbeat.com - May 1 at 6:31 AM
	W. P. Carey Inc.: Balancing High Occupancy and Strategic Exits with Financial Underperformance and Rent Concessions markets.businessinsider.com - May 1 at 3:58 AM
	WPC Stock Earnings: W.P. Carey Misses EPS, Misses Revenue for Q1 2024 msn.com - April 30 at 10:58 PM
	W. P. Carey (NYSE:WPC) Releases FY 2024 Earnings Guidance marketbeat.com - April 30 at 7:11 PM
	W.P. Carey (WPC) Q1 FFO and Revenues Miss Estimates zacks.com - April 30 at 6:35 PM
	W.P. Carey: Q1 Earnings Snapshot timesunion.com - April 30 at 5:56 PM

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Company Descriptions

Iron Mountain

NYSE:IRM

Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is a global leader in information management services. Founded in 1951 and trusted by more than 240,000 customers worldwide, Iron Mountain serves to protect and elevate the power of our customers' work. Through a range of offerings including digital transformation, data centers, secure records storage, information management, asset lifecycle management, secure destruction and art storage and logistics, Iron Mountain helps businesses bring light to their dark data, enabling customers to unlock value and intelligence from their stored digital and physical assets at speed and with security, while helping them meet their environmental goals.

Mid-America Apartment Communities

NYSE:MAA

MAA, an S&P 500 company, is a real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on delivering full-cycle and superior investment performance for shareholders through the ownership, management, acquisition, development and redevelopment of quality apartment communities primarily in the Southeast, Southwest and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. As of December 31, 2023, MAA had ownership interest in 102,662 apartment units, including communities currently in development, across 16 states and the District of Columbia.

Sun Communities

NYSE:SUI

Established in 1975, Sun Communities, Inc. became a publicly owned corporation in December 1993. The Company is a fully integrated REIT listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol: SUI. As of December 31, 2023, the Company owned, operated, or had an interest in a portfolio of 667 developed MH, RV and Marina properties comprising 179,310 developed sites and approximately 48,030 wet slips and dry storage spaces in the U.S., the UK and Canada.

W. P. Carey

NYSE:WPC

W. P. Carey ranks among the largest net lease REITs with a well-diversified portfolio of high-quality, operationally critical commercial real estate, which includes 1,424 net lease properties covering approximately 173 million square feet and a portfolio of 89 self-storage operating properties as of December 31, 2023. With offices in New York, London, Amsterdam and Dallas, the company remains focused on investing primarily in single-tenant, industrial, warehouse and retail properties located in the U.S. and Northern and Western Europe, under long-term net leases with built-in rent escalations.

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