EQIX vs. AMT, WELL, PLD, PSA, SPG, O, DLR, CCI, EXR, and VICI
Should you be buying Equinix stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Equinix include American Tower (AMT), Welltower (WELL), Prologis (PLD), Public Storage (PSA), Simon Property Group (SPG), Realty Income (O), Digital Realty Trust (DLR), Crown Castle (CCI), Extra Space Storage (EXR), and VICI Properties (VICI). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
American Tower (NYSE:AMT) and Equinix (NASDAQ:EQIX) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
American Tower presently has a consensus target price of $221.91, suggesting a potential upside of 14.09%. Equinix has a consensus target price of $874.44, suggesting a potential upside of 9.33%. Given Equinix's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe American Tower is more favorable than Equinix.
Equinix received 94 more outperform votes than American Tower when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave American Tower an outperform vote while only 72.89% of users gave Equinix an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Equinix had 16 more articles in the media than American Tower. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Equinix and 12 mentions for American Tower. Equinix's average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat American Tower's score of 0.18 indicating that American Tower is being referred to more favorably in the media.
American Tower has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Equinix has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
American Tower has a net margin of 18.42% compared to American Tower's net margin of 11.32%. Equinix's return on equity of 18.45% beat American Tower's return on equity.
92.7% of American Tower shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.9% of Equinix shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of American Tower shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Equinix shares are owned 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.
American Tower pays an annual dividend of $6.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Equinix pays an annual dividend of $17.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. American Tower pays out 146.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Equinix pays out 170.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Equinix has increased its dividend for 8 consecutive years. American Tower is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
American Tower has higher revenue and earnings than Equinix. American Tower is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Equinix, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
American Tower beats Equinix on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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