IRM vs. CTAS, CPRT, UNF, MGRC, KAR, HCSG, VVI, PFMT, AMT, and EQIX
Should you be buying Iron Mountain stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Iron Mountain include Cintas (CTAS), Copart (CPRT), UniFirst (UNF), McGrath RentCorp (MGRC), OPENLANE (KAR), Healthcare Services Group (HCSG), Viad (VVI), Performant Financial (PFMT), American Tower (AMT), and Equinix (EQIX).
Iron Mountain (NYSE:IRM) and Cintas (NASDAQ:CTAS) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, risk, community ranking, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
80.1% of Iron Mountain shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.5% of Cintas shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Iron Mountain shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.1% of Cintas shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Cintas has higher revenue and earnings than Iron Mountain. Cintas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Iron Mountain, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cintas received 124 more outperform votes than Iron Mountain when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.44% of users gave Iron Mountain an outperform vote while only 60.09% of users gave Cintas an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Cintas had 3 more articles in the media than Iron Mountain. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Cintas and 4 mentions for Iron Mountain. Iron Mountain's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Cintas' score of 0.57 indicating that Iron Mountain is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Iron Mountain pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Cintas pays an annual dividend of $5.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. 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. Cintas pays out 37.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Cintas has a net margin of 15.98% compared to Iron Mountain's net margin of 5.45%. Iron Mountain's return on equity of 282.93% beat Cintas' return on equity.
Iron Mountain currently has a consensus price target of $73.80, indicating a potential downside of 8.54%. Cintas has a consensus price target of $664.07, indicating a potential downside of 2.05%. Given Cintas' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cintas is more favorable than Iron Mountain.
Iron Mountain has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cintas has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Cintas beats Iron Mountain on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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