Iron Mountain (IRM) Competitors

Cintas (NASDAQ:CTAS) and Iron Mountain (NYSE:IRM) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and dividends.

Is CTAS or IRM a better dividend stock?

Cintas pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Iron Mountain pays an annual dividend of $3.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Cintas pays out 36.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Iron Mountain pays out 765.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Cintas has raised its dividend for 42 consecutive years and Iron Mountain has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in CTAS or IRM?

63.5% of Cintas shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.1% of Iron Mountain shares are held by institutional investors. 15.0% of Cintas shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Iron Mountain shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has higher valuation and earnings, CTAS or IRM?

Cintas has higher revenue and earnings than Iron Mountain. Cintas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Iron Mountain, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cintas	$10.14B	8.87	$1.57B	$4.32	51.59
Iron Mountain	$6.27B	4.73	$180.16M	$0.41	245.24

Which has more volatility and risk, CTAS or IRM?

Cintas has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Iron Mountain has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor CTAS or IRM?

Cintas received 124 more outperform votes than Iron Mountain when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.70% of users gave Iron Mountain an outperform vote while only 59.20% of users gave Cintas an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Cintas	Outperform Votes 547 59.20%	Underperform Votes 377 40.80%
Iron Mountain	Outperform Votes 423 63.70%	Underperform Votes 241 36.30%

Is CTAS or IRM more profitable?

Cintas has a net margin of 17.23% compared to Iron Mountain's net margin of 2.95%. Cintas' return on equity of 40.62% beat Iron Mountain's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cintas	17.23%	40.62%	18.72%
Iron Mountain	2.95%	-401.83%	2.87%

Do analysts prefer CTAS or IRM?

Cintas presently has a consensus target price of $213.88, indicating a potential downside of 4.03%. Iron Mountain has a consensus target price of $121.29, indicating a potential upside of 20.62%. Given Iron Mountain's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Iron Mountain is more favorable than Cintas.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cintas	3 Sell rating(s)	6 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.27
Iron Mountain	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	7 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.13

Does the media refer more to CTAS or IRM?

In the previous week, Cintas had 6 more articles in the media than Iron Mountain. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Cintas and 28 mentions for Iron Mountain. Cintas' average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Iron Mountain's score of 1.12 indicating that Cintas is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Cintas	28 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Iron Mountain	18 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Cintas beats Iron Mountain on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.