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Crown Castle (CCI) Competitors

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$101.44 -1.48 (-1.44%)
Closing price 05/21/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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CCI vs. SBAC, USM, TDS, BB, SHEN, SPOK, PLD, AMT, WELL, and EQIX

Should you be buying Crown Castle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crown Castle include SBA Communications (SBAC), United States Cellular (USM), Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), BlackBerry (BB), Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN), Spok (SPOK), Prologis (PLD), American Tower (AMT), Welltower (WELL), and Equinix (EQIX).

Crown Castle vs.

Crown Castle (NYSE:CCI) and SBA Communications (NASDAQ:SBAC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and dividends.

SBA Communications received 70 more outperform votes than Crown Castle when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.63% of users gave Crown Castle an outperform vote while only 67.07% of users gave SBA Communications an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Crown CastleOutperform Votes
769
67.63%
Underperform Votes
368
32.37%
SBA CommunicationsOutperform Votes
839
67.07%
Underperform Votes
412
32.93%

Crown Castle pays an annual dividend of $6.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. SBA Communications pays an annual dividend of $4.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Crown Castle pays out -58.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SBA Communications pays out 60.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. SBA Communications has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years. Crown Castle is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Crown Castle has higher revenue and earnings than SBA Communications. Crown Castle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SBA Communications, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Crown Castle$6.52B6.78$1.50B-$10.76-9.43
SBA Communications$2.69B9.28$501.81M$7.2931.81

Crown Castle has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SBA Communications has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Crown Castle presently has a consensus target price of $112.71, indicating a potential upside of 11.10%. SBA Communications has a consensus target price of $253.43, indicating a potential upside of 9.28%. Given Crown Castle's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Crown Castle is more favorable than SBA Communications.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Crown Castle
0 Sell rating(s)
10 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
3 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.65
SBA Communications
0 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.73

SBA Communications has a net margin of 25.76% compared to Crown Castle's net margin of 18.59%. Crown Castle's return on equity of 20.98% beat SBA Communications' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Crown Castle18.59% 20.98% 3.20%
SBA Communications 25.76%-13.13%6.83%

90.8% of Crown Castle shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.3% of SBA Communications shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Crown Castle shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of SBA Communications shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Crown Castle had 1 more articles in the media than SBA Communications. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for Crown Castle and 34 mentions for SBA Communications. SBA Communications' average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Crown Castle's score of 1.38 indicating that SBA Communications is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Crown Castle
24 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
SBA Communications
25 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

SBA Communications beats Crown Castle on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CCI vs. The Competition

MetricCrown CastleReal estate investment trusts IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$44.82B$6.91B$11.50B$19.41B
Dividend Yield6.08%6.73%5.45%3.83%
P/E Ratio35.9760.3022.4834.23
Price / Sales6.788.3427.2834.85
Price / Cash12.0417.3217.6217.51
Price / Book6.901.652.794.69
Net Income$1.50B$177.71M$1.04B$1.02B
7 Day Performance0.73%-2.06%-0.02%-1.74%
1 Month Performance-2.82%1.66%6.70%7.46%
1 Year Performance1.23%0.72%537.71%3.96%

Crown Castle Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CCI
Crown Castle
4.2873 of 5 stars
$101.44
-1.4%
$112.71
+11.1%
+0.7%$44.82B$6.52B35.975,000Trending News
Dividend Cut
Analyst Forecast
SBAC
SBA Communications
4.4435 of 5 stars
$235.01
+0.8%
$252.93
+7.6%
+16.9%$25.29B$2.69B37.071,830Positive News
Analyst Forecast
USM
United States Cellular
2.3883 of 5 stars
$61.42
-0.6%
$83.67
+36.2%
+41.0%$5.22B$3.71B-170.614,900Positive News
TDS
Telephone and Data Systems
2.686 of 5 stars
$34.52
-1.2%
$51.50
+49.2%
+77.4%$3.94B$4.86B-6.399,300Positive News
BB
BlackBerry
0.6042 of 5 stars
$3.91
-0.8%
$4.12
+5.3%
+29.0%$2.33B$534.90M-17.772,647Gap Down
SHEN
Shenandoah Telecommunications
3.0255 of 5 stars
$11.21
-3.9%
$26.00
+131.9%
-37.6%$614.95M$346.71M2.96840Positive News
SPOK
Spok
2.3098 of 5 stars
$16.97
+0.2%
$20.00
+17.9%
+4.4%$349.11M$139.04M23.25380Positive News
PLD
Prologis
4.5304 of 5 stars
$110.57
+0.0%
$120.42
+8.9%
-5.3%$102.60B$8.38B27.642,470Positive News
Analyst Forecast
AMT
American Tower
4.2409 of 5 stars
$214.90
+0.7%
$240.25
+11.8%
+10.1%$100.60B$10.18B90.686,390Positive News
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
WELL
Welltower
4.1253 of 5 stars
$150.33
+1.1%
$161.83
+7.7%
+46.7%$98.31B$8.41B96.37510Positive News
EQIX
Equinix
4.6787 of 5 stars
$877.27
+0.2%
$1,004.65
+14.5%
+8.4%$85.81B$8.85B102.6012,100Positive News
Analyst Forecast

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This page (NYSE:CCI) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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