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Should you be buying Crown Castle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crown Castle include SBA Communications (SBAC), T-Mobile US (TMUS), American Tower (AMT), Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE), American Water Works (AWK), Digital Realty Trust (DLR), Prologis (PLD), SL Green Realty (SLG), United States Cellular (USM), and Telephone and Data Systems (TDS).
Crown Castle vs. Its Competitors
Crown Castle (NYSE:CCI) and SBA Communications (NASDAQ:SBAC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.
SBA Communications has a net margin of 31.19% compared to Crown Castle's net margin of -85.54%. SBA Communications' return on equity of -16.83% beat Crown Castle's return on equity.
Crown Castle has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SBA Communications has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Crown Castle pays an annual dividend of $4.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. SBA Communications pays an annual dividend of $4.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Crown Castle pays out -39.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SBA Communications pays out 56.4% 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 raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years. Crown Castle is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
SBA Communications has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Crown Castle. 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.
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 is poised for long-term growth.
Crown Castle currently has a consensus target price of $116.41, suggesting a potential upside of 21.83%. SBA Communications has a consensus target price of $256.38, suggesting a potential upside of 28.38%. Given SBA Communications' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe SBA Communications is more favorable than Crown Castle.
In the previous week, Crown Castle had 1 more articles in the media than SBA Communications. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Crown Castle and 26 mentions for SBA Communications. Crown Castle's average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat SBA Communications' score of 1.51 indicating that Crown Castle is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
SBA Communications beats Crown Castle on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:CCI) was last updated on 9/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
