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Crown Castle (CCI) Competitors

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$90.66 -0.07 (-0.08%)
(As of 12/20/2024 05:45 PM ET)

CCI vs. SBAC, USM, TDS, BB, SHEN, SPOK, PLD, EQIX, AMT, and WELL

Should you be buying Crown Castle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crown Castle include SBA Communications (SBAC), United States Cellular (USM), Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), BlackBerry (BB), Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN), Spok (SPOK), Prologis (PLD), Equinix (EQIX), American Tower (AMT), and Welltower (WELL).

Crown Castle vs.

SBA Communications (NASDAQ:SBAC) and Crown Castle (NYSE:CCI) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and earnings.

SBA Communications received 71 more outperform votes than Crown Castle when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.42% of users gave Crown Castle an outperform vote while only 67.18% of users gave SBA Communications an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
SBA CommunicationsOutperform Votes
825
67.18%
Underperform Votes
403
32.82%
Crown CastleOutperform Votes
754
68.42%
Underperform Votes
348
31.58%

SBA Communications has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crown Castle has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Crown Castle had 6 more articles in the media than SBA Communications. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Crown Castle and 9 mentions for SBA Communications. Crown Castle's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat SBA Communications' score of 0.69 indicating that Crown Castle is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
SBA Communications
3 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Crown Castle
8 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

97.3% of SBA Communications shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.8% of Crown Castle shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of SBA Communications shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Crown Castle 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.

Crown Castle has higher revenue and earnings than SBA Communications. SBA Communications is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crown Castle, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
SBA Communications$2.66B8.23$501.81M$6.3432.11
Crown Castle$6.59B5.98$1.50B$2.8232.15

SBA Communications pays an annual dividend of $3.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Crown Castle pays an annual dividend of $6.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. SBA Communications pays out 61.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Crown Castle pays out 222.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
SBA Communications25.76% -13.13% 6.83%
Crown Castle 18.59%20.98%3.20%

SBA Communications presently has a consensus target price of $254.92, suggesting a potential upside of 25.23%. Crown Castle has a consensus target price of $117.00, suggesting a potential upside of 29.05%. Given Crown Castle's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Crown Castle is more favorable than SBA Communications.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
SBA Communications
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.77
Crown Castle
1 Sell rating(s)
10 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.14

Summary

SBA Communications beats Crown Castle on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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CCI vs. The Competition

MetricCrown CastleReal estate investment trusts IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$39.40B$7.00B$10.97B$19.18B
Dividend Yield6.60%6.80%9.85%3.59%
P/E Ratio32.1542.8028.4941.28
Price / Sales5.987.8248.6117.59
Price / Cash12.8217.7930.3121.28
Price / Book6.162.542.735.32
Net Income$1.50B$146.30M$1.03B$989.88M
7 Day Performance-6.64%-3.82%-2.88%-3.56%
1 Month Performance-13.34%-4.28%-2.86%-3.70%
1 Year Performance-20.92%1.86%11.27%12.12%

Crown Castle Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CCI
Crown Castle
4.4936 of 5 stars
$90.66
-0.1%
$117.00
+29.1%
-20.8%$39.40B$6.59B32.154,700Analyst Revision
High Trading Volume
SBAC
SBA Communications
4.9727 of 5 stars
$212.18
-1.0%
$257.23
+21.2%
-17.3%$22.81B$2.71B33.801,787Analyst Forecast
USM
United States Cellular
3.3503 of 5 stars
$62.37
-1.0%
$80.00
+28.3%
+54.0%$5.36B$3.91B-174.914,300Positive News
TDS
Telephone and Data Systems
3.6963 of 5 stars
$34.73
-1.3%
$45.50
+31.0%
+87.8%$3.92B$5.04B-6.528,800Positive News
BB
BlackBerry
1.6844 of 5 stars
$3.05
+13.4%
$3.23
+5.9%
-9.9%$1.80B$853M-11.962,647Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
News Coverage
High Trading Volume
SHEN
Shenandoah Telecommunications
4.2773 of 5 stars
$13.55
+2.2%
$26.00
+91.9%
-40.2%$739.83M$287.38M3.44840Positive News
SPOK
Spok
2.3037 of 5 stars
$16.77
+0.4%
$15.00
-10.6%
+9.3%$339.93M$139.02M22.88380Positive News
PLD
Prologis
4.8531 of 5 stars
$110.02
-0.1%
$128.88
+17.1%
-20.8%$101.90B$7.89B33.572,574
EQIX
Equinix
4.1069 of 5 stars
$962.01
-0.3%
$976.81
+1.5%
+16.7%$92.82B$8.60B86.6213,151
AMT
American Tower
4.7554 of 5 stars
$195.72
-0.7%
$235.08
+20.1%
-13.0%$91.46B$11.14B83.195,643
WELL
Welltower
3.5097 of 5 stars
$129.84
+0.6%
$123.63
-4.8%
+40.8%$80.85B$7.35B85.05533Positive News

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