IRM vs. SBAC, EQR, ARE, AVB, VICI, ESS, EXR, SUI, MAA, and HST
Should you be buying Iron Mountain stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Iron Mountain include SBA Communications (SBAC), Equity Residential (EQR), Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE), AvalonBay Communities (AVB), VICI Properties (VICI), Essex Property Trust (ESS), Extra Space Storage (EXR), Sun Communities (SUI), Mid-America Apartment Communities (MAA), and Host Hotels & Resorts (HST). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
SBA Communications (NASDAQ:SBAC) and Iron Mountain (NYSE:IRM) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.
In the previous week, Iron Mountain had 4 more articles in the media than SBA Communications. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Iron Mountain and 9 mentions for SBA Communications. SBA Communications' average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Iron Mountain's score of 0.65 indicating that Iron Mountain is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SBA Communications has a net margin of 18.51% compared to SBA Communications' net margin of 5.44%. SBA Communications' return on equity of 178.02% beat Iron Mountain's return on equity.
SBA Communications currently has a consensus price target of $268.00, suggesting a potential upside of 34.77%. Iron Mountain has a consensus price target of $73.80, suggesting a potential downside of 3.86%. Given Iron Mountain's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe SBA Communications is more favorable than Iron Mountain.
SBA Communications has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Iron Mountain. SBA Communications is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Iron Mountain, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SBA Communications pays an annual dividend of $3.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Iron Mountain pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. 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. Iron Mountain pays out 412.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SBA Communications has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Iron Mountain has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
SBA Communications has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Iron Mountain has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SBA Communications received 391 more outperform votes than Iron Mountain when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.20% of users gave SBA Communications an outperform vote while only 63.44% of users gave Iron Mountain an outperform vote.
97.4% of SBA Communications shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.1% of Iron Mountain shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of SBA Communications shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Iron Mountain shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
SBA Communications beats Iron Mountain on 14 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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