SBAC vs. CCI, USM, TDS, BB, SHEN, SPOK, EQIX, SPG, PSA, and DLR
Should you be buying SBA Communications stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SBA Communications include Crown Castle (CCI), United States Cellular (USM), Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), BlackBerry (BB), Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN), Spok (SPOK), Equinix (EQIX), Simon Property Group (SPG), Public Storage (PSA), and Digital Realty Trust (DLR).
SBA Communications vs.
Crown Castle (NYSE:CCI) and SBA Communications (NASDAQ:SBAC) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Crown Castle has higher revenue and earnings than SBA Communications. 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.
SBA Communications received 69 more outperform votes than Crown Castle when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.00% of users gave Crown Castle an outperform vote while only 67.15% of users gave SBA Communications an outperform vote.
90.8% of Crown Castle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.3% of SBA Communications shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Crown Castle shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of SBA Communications shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Crown Castle presently has a consensus target price of $110.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.35%. SBA Communications has a consensus target price of $252.85, indicating a potential upside of 15.62%. Given SBA Communications' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe SBA Communications is more favorable than Crown Castle.
Crown Castle has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SBA Communications has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Crown Castle pays an annual dividend of $6.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. SBA Communications pays an annual dividend of $4.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Crown Castle pays out -69.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SBA Communications pays out 64.0% 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. Crown Castle is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Crown Castle had 11 more articles in the media than SBA Communications. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for Crown Castle and 24 mentions for SBA Communications. SBA Communications' average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Crown Castle's score of 1.02 indicating that SBA Communications is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SBA Communications has a net margin of 25.76% compared to Crown Castle's net margin of 18.59%. Crown Castle's return on equity of 20.98% beat SBA Communications' return on equity.
Summary
SBA Communications beats Crown Castle on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:SBAC) was last updated on 3/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
