IRM vs. ARE, EQR, SBAC, VTR, AVB, ESS, VICI, MAA, EXR, and SUI
Should you be buying Iron Mountain stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Iron Mountain include Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE), Equity Residential (EQR), SBA Communications (SBAC), Ventas (VTR), AvalonBay Communities (AVB), Essex Property Trust (ESS), VICI Properties (VICI), Mid-America Apartment Communities (MAA), Extra Space Storage (EXR), and Sun Communities (SUI). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities (NYSE:ARE) and Iron Mountain (NYSE:IRM) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Iron Mountain has higher revenue and earnings than Alexandria Real Estate Equities. Alexandria Real Estate Equities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Iron Mountain, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Iron Mountain had 1 more articles in the media than Alexandria Real Estate Equities. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Iron Mountain and 7 mentions for Alexandria Real Estate Equities. Iron Mountain's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Alexandria Real Estate Equities' score of 0.73 indicating that Alexandria Real Estate Equities is being referred to more favorably in the media.
96.5% of Alexandria Real Estate Equities shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.1% of Iron Mountain shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Alexandria Real Estate Equities shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Iron Mountain shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Iron Mountain has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities received 65 more outperform votes than Iron Mountain when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.97% of users gave Alexandria Real Estate Equities an outperform vote while only 63.44% of users gave Iron Mountain an outperform vote.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities pays an annual dividend of $5.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Iron Mountain pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Alexandria Real Estate Equities pays out 474.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Iron Mountain pays out 393.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alexandria Real Estate Equities has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years and Iron Mountain has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Alexandria Real Estate Equities is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities presently has a consensus price target of $136.75, indicating a potential upside of 10.13%. Iron Mountain has a consensus price target of $73.80, indicating a potential downside of 9.77%. Given Iron Mountain's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Alexandria Real Estate Equities is more favorable than Iron Mountain.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities has a net margin of 6.65% compared to Alexandria Real Estate Equities' net margin of 5.45%. Alexandria Real Estate Equities' return on equity of 282.93% beat Iron Mountain's return on equity.
Summary
Alexandria Real Estate Equities beats Iron Mountain on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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