SBAC vs. EQR, CCI, IRM, ARE, AVB, VTR, EXR, VICI, SUI, and MAA
Should you be buying SBA Communications stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SBA Communications include Equity Residential (EQR), Crown Castle (CCI), Iron Mountain (IRM), Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE), AvalonBay Communities (AVB), Ventas (VTR), Extra Space Storage (EXR), VICI Properties (VICI), Sun Communities (SUI), and Mid-America Apartment Communities (MAA).
SBA Communications (NASDAQ:SBAC) and Equity Residential (NYSE:EQR) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
Equity Residential has higher revenue and earnings than SBA Communications. Equity Residential is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SBA Communications, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SBA Communications presently has a consensus price target of $271.50, indicating a potential upside of 24.50%. Equity Residential has a consensus price target of $66.04, indicating a potential upside of 4.55%. Given SBA Communications' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe SBA Communications is more favorable than Equity Residential.
SBA Communications pays an annual dividend of $3.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Equity Residential pays an annual dividend of $2.70 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. SBA Communications pays out 85.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Equity Residential pays out 122.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Equity Residential has a net margin of 29.07% compared to SBA Communications' net margin of 18.51%. Equity Residential's return on equity of 7.43% beat SBA Communications' return on equity.
SBA Communications received 309 more outperform votes than Equity Residential when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.17% of users gave SBA Communications an outperform vote while only 47.79% of users gave Equity Residential an outperform vote.
SBA Communications has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Equity Residential has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
97.4% of SBA Communications shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of Equity Residential shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of SBA Communications shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Equity Residential shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Equity Residential had 11 more articles in the media than SBA Communications. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Equity Residential and 5 mentions for SBA Communications. SBA Communications' average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Equity Residential's score of 0.11 indicating that SBA Communications is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
SBA Communications beats Equity Residential on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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