SBA Communications Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:SBAC)

16 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for SBA Communications in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings, 12 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" SBAC shares.
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16 equities research analysts have issued 1 year target prices for SBA Communications' stock. Their SBAC share price targets range from $227.00 to $350.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $279.12 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 11.4% from the stock's current price.
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SBA Communications' stock was trading at $280.31 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, SBAC shares have decreased by 10.6% and is now trading at $250.57.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 20th 2024.
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SBA Communications Co. (NASDAQ:SBAC) announced its quarterly earnings results on Monday, July, 31st. The technology company reported $1.87 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $2.91 by $1.04. The technology company earned $678.50 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $676.87 million. SBA Communications had a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 9.53% and a net margin of 18.20%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 4.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business earned $3.07 EPS.
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SBA Communications announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, November 2nd. Shareholders of record on Thursday, November 16th will be paid a dividend of $0.85 per share on Thursday, December 14th. This represents a $3.40 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.36%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, November 15th.
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SBA Communications (NASDAQ:SBAC) pays an annual dividend of $3.40 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.38%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 4 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 74.89%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, SBAC will have a dividend payout ratio of 26.81% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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SBA Communications issued an update on its FY23 earnings guidance on Thursday, November, 2nd. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $12.91-13.13 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $12.94. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.705-2.725 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.72 billion.

247 employees have rated SBA Communications Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey A. Stoops on Glassdoor.com. Jeffrey A. Stoops has an approval rating of 99% among the company's employees. This puts Jeffrey A. Stoops in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other SBA Communications investors own include Intel (INTC), Cisco Systems (CSCO), NVIDIA (NVDA), American Tower (AMT), Crown Castle (CCI), Micron Technology (MU), Walt Disney (DIS), AT&T (T), QUALCOMM (QCOM) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ).

SBA Communications' stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Principal Financial Group Inc. (2.59%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (2.41%), Deutsche Bank AG (2.36%), Deutsche Bank AG (2.38%), Invesco Ltd. (1.98%) and Brown Advisory Inc. (1.79%). Insiders that own company stock include Brendan Thomas Cavanagh, Brian D Lazarus, Duncan Cocroft, Fidelma Russo, George R Krouse Jr, George R Krouse, Jr, Jason V Silberstein, Jeffrey Stoops, Joshua Koenig, Kevin L Beebe, Kurt L Bagwell, Mark R Ciarfella, Mark R Ciarfella and Thomas P Hunt.
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