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AMT vs. EQIX, SBAC, ARE, CCI, DLR, O, PLD, PSA, VICI, and VZ

Should you be buying American Tower stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Tower include Equinix (EQIX), SBA Communications (SBAC), Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE), Crown Castle (CCI), Digital Realty Trust (DLR), Realty Income (O), Prologis (PLD), Public Storage (PSA), VICI Properties (VICI), and Verizon Communications (VZ).

American Tower vs. Its Competitors

Equinix (NASDAQ:EQIX) and American Tower (NYSE:AMT) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.

Equinix pays an annual dividend of $18.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. American Tower pays an annual dividend of $6.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Equinix pays out 195.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. American Tower pays out 174.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Equinix has increased its dividend for 10 consecutive years and American Tower has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. American Tower is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Equinix$8.75B8.55$815M$9.6279.47
American Tower$10.13B10.16$2.26B$3.8956.48

American Tower has a net margin of 17.34% compared to Equinix's net margin of 10.48%. American Tower's return on equity of 30.20% beat Equinix's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Equinix10.48% 6.96% 2.66%
American Tower 17.34%30.20%4.82%

Equinix has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Tower has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, American Tower had 15 more articles in the media than Equinix. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for American Tower and 22 mentions for Equinix. American Tower's average media sentiment score of 1.41 beat Equinix's score of 0.83 indicating that American Tower is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Equinix
17 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
American Tower
32 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Equinix presently has a consensus target price of $960.55, indicating a potential upside of 25.64%. American Tower has a consensus target price of $240.88, indicating a potential upside of 9.63%. Given Equinix's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Equinix is more favorable than American Tower.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Equinix
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
18 Buy rating(s)
5 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.04
American Tower
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
14 Buy rating(s)
3 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.11

94.9% of Equinix shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% 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 endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

American Tower beats Equinix on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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AMT vs. The Competition

MetricAmerican TowerREIT IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$102.96B$8.32B$11.92B$20.52B
Dividend Yield3.09%5.81%5.56%3.78%
P/E Ratio56.5440.9419.9827.79
Price / Sales10.164.8925.3240.34
Price / Cash19.0017.9221.4422.26
Price / Book10.641.652.264.58
Net Income$2.26B$128.99M$990.08M$982.91M
7 Day Performance-1.43%-0.45%0.22%0.41%
1 Month Performance3.24%0.42%2.87%3.59%
1 Year Performance12.12%-0.28%541.16%14.47%

American Tower Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AMT
American Tower
3.9686 of 5 stars
$219.71
-0.1%
$240.88
+9.6%
+12.5%$102.96B$10.13B56.544,691Positive News
Analyst Forecast
EQIX
Equinix
4.9402 of 5 stars
$790.80
+0.7%
$977.30
+23.6%
+1.4%$77.36B$8.75B82.2012,100
SBAC
SBA Communications
4.5082 of 5 stars
$232.91
+0.9%
$253.43
+8.8%
+20.8%$25.03B$2.68B31.951,830Positive News
Analyst Forecast
ARE
Alexandria Real Estate Equities
4.6855 of 5 stars
$72.28
+0.3%
$116.00
+60.5%
-33.9%$12.50B$3.04B95.11590Positive News
CCI
Crown Castle
4.6666 of 5 stars
$101.81
+1.2%
$112.71
+10.7%
+6.2%$44.33B$6.57B-9.465,000News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
DLR
Digital Realty Trust
4.44 of 5 stars
$173.25
+1.1%
$186.55
+7.7%
+11.1%$58.35B$5.55B161.923,410Positive News
O
Realty Income
3.94 of 5 stars
$57.25
+0.4%
$61.15
+6.8%
+8.1%$51.70B$5.27B52.05400Positive News
Dividend Announcement
PLD
Prologis
4.8828 of 5 stars
$104.21
-1.3%
$120.42
+15.6%
-6.6%$96.70B$8.20B26.052,470Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
PSA
Public Storage
4.6918 of 5 stars
$293.01
+1.1%
$337.64
+15.2%
+0.2%$51.40B$4.70B29.105,900Positive News
VICI
VICI Properties
4.0717 of 5 stars
$32.37
+0.3%
$35.42
+9.4%
+18.6%$34.21B$3.85B12.9520News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
VZ
Verizon Communications
4.42 of 5 stars
$42.86
+1.3%
$47.41
+10.6%
+3.7%$180.71B$135.29B10.2099,600Positive News
Analyst Forecast

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