SBAC vs. ARE, EQR, AVB, CCI, USM, TDS, BB, SHEN, SPOK, and DLR
Should you be buying SBA Communications stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SBA Communications include Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE), Equity Residential (EQR), AvalonBay Communities (AVB), Crown Castle (CCI), United States Cellular (USM), Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), BlackBerry (BB), Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN), Spok (SPOK), and Digital Realty Trust (DLR).
SBA Communications (NASDAQ:SBAC) and Alexandria Real Estate Equities (NYSE:ARE) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.
SBA Communications presently has a consensus price target of $252.17, suggesting a potential upside of 28.21%. Alexandria Real Estate Equities has a consensus price target of $136.75, suggesting a potential upside of 14.87%. Given SBA Communications' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe SBA Communications is more favorable than Alexandria Real Estate Equities.
SBA Communications received 335 more outperform votes than Alexandria Real Estate Equities when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.39% of users gave SBA Communications an outperform vote while only 64.97% of users gave Alexandria Real Estate Equities an outperform vote.
SBA Communications has a beta of 0.59, meaning that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alexandria Real Estate Equities has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SBA Communications has a net margin of 20.61% compared to Alexandria Real Estate Equities' net margin of 6.65%. Alexandria Real Estate Equities' return on equity of 0.87% beat SBA Communications' return on equity.
SBA Communications has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Alexandria Real Estate Equities. SBA Communications is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alexandria Real Estate Equities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, SBA Communications had 6 more articles in the media than Alexandria Real Estate Equities. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for SBA Communications and 5 mentions for Alexandria Real Estate Equities. Alexandria Real Estate Equities' average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat SBA Communications' score of 0.80 indicating that Alexandria Real Estate Equities is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SBA Communications pays an annual dividend of $3.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Alexandria Real Estate Equities pays an annual dividend of $5.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. SBA Communications pays out 76.9% 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 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.
97.4% of SBA Communications shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.5% of Alexandria Real Estate Equities shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of SBA Communications shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Alexandria Real Estate Equities shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
SBA Communications beats Alexandria Real Estate Equities on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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