EQIX vs. AMT, WELL, PSA, SPG, CCI, DLR, O, PLD, EXR, and VICI
Should you be buying Equinix stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Equinix include American Tower (AMT), Welltower (WELL), Public Storage (PSA), Simon Property Group (SPG), Crown Castle (CCI), Digital Realty Trust (DLR), Realty Income (O), Prologis (PLD), Extra Space Storage (EXR), and VICI Properties (VICI). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Equinix (NASDAQ:EQIX) and American Tower (NYSE:AMT) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
Equinix currently has a consensus price target of $863.44, indicating a potential upside of 0.32%. American Tower has a consensus price target of $217.55, indicating a potential upside of 11.04%. Given American Tower's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe American Tower is more favorable than Equinix.
American Tower has higher revenue and earnings than Equinix. American Tower is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Equinix, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
American Tower has a net margin of 13.31% compared to Equinix's net margin of 11.84%. American Tower's return on equity of 12.80% beat Equinix's return on equity.
93.2% of Equinix shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.3% of American Tower shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Equinix shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of American Tower shares are owned 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.
Equinix received 95 more outperform votes than American Tower when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.06% of users gave American Tower an outperform vote while only 73.00% of users gave Equinix an outperform vote.
Equinix pays an annual dividend of $17.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. American Tower pays an annual dividend of $6.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Equinix pays out 165.3% 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 213.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Equinix had 5 more articles in the media than American Tower. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Equinix and 20 mentions for American Tower. American Tower's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Equinix's score of 0.71 indicating that American Tower is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Equinix has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Tower has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
American Tower beats Equinix on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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