SBAC vs. ARE, EQR, AVB, DLR, CCI, USM, TDS, BB, SHEN, and SPOK
Should you be buying SBA Communications stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SBA Communications include Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE), Equity Residential (EQR), AvalonBay Communities (AVB), Digital Realty Trust (DLR), Crown Castle (CCI), United States Cellular (USM), Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), BlackBerry (BB), Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN), and Spok (SPOK).
SBA Communications (NASDAQ:SBAC) and Alexandria Real Estate Equities (NYSE:ARE) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
SBA Communications has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alexandria Real Estate Equities has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Alexandria Real Estate Equities had 35 more articles in the media than SBA Communications. MarketBeat recorded 45 mentions for Alexandria Real Estate Equities and 10 mentions for SBA Communications. SBA Communications' average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Alexandria Real Estate Equities' score of 0.25 indicating that SBA Communications is being referred to more favorably in the media.
97.4% of SBA Communications shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.5% of Alexandria Real Estate Equities shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of SBA Communications shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Alexandria Real Estate Equities shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
SBA Communications has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Alexandria Real Estate Equities. SBA Communications is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alexandria Real Estate Equities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SBA Communications pays an annual dividend of $3.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Alexandria Real Estate Equities pays an annual dividend of $5.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. 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. Alexandria Real Estate Equities pays out 486.0% 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 has a net margin of 20.61% compared to Alexandria Real Estate Equities' net margin of 5.09%. Alexandria Real Estate Equities' return on equity of 0.68% beat SBA Communications' return on equity.
SBA Communications presently has a consensus price target of $248.31, indicating a potential upside of 15.65%. Alexandria Real Estate Equities has a consensus price target of $133.71, indicating a potential upside of 12.40%. Given SBA Communications' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe SBA Communications is more favorable than Alexandria Real Estate Equities.
SBA Communications received 337 more outperform votes than Alexandria Real Estate Equities when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.28% of users gave SBA Communications an outperform vote while only 64.88% of users gave Alexandria Real Estate Equities an outperform vote.
Summary
SBA Communications beats Alexandria Real Estate Equities on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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