Iron Mountain (IRM) Competitors

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

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of IRM or SBAC?

80.1% of Iron Mountain shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.4% of SBA Communications shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Iron Mountain shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of SBA Communications shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts rate IRM or SBAC?

Iron Mountain presently has a consensus price target of $73.80, indicating a potential downside of 4.80%. SBA Communications has a consensus price target of $268.00, indicating a potential upside of 36.57%. Given SBA Communications' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe SBA Communications is more favorable than Iron Mountain.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Iron Mountain	1 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.60
SBA Communications	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	10 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.09

Is IRM or SBAC a better dividend stock?

Iron Mountain pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. SBA Communications pays an annual dividend of $3.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Iron Mountain pays out 412.7% 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 pays out 85.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Is IRM or SBAC more profitable?

SBA Communications has a net margin of 18.51% compared to Iron Mountain's net margin of 5.44%. Iron Mountain's return on equity of 178.02% beat SBA Communications' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Iron Mountain	5.44%	178.02%	3.79%
SBA Communications	18.51%	-9.70%	4.82%

Which has more risk & volatility, IRM or SBAC?

Iron Mountain has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SBA Communications has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer IRM or SBAC?

In the previous week, Iron Mountain had 1 more articles in the media than SBA Communications. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Iron Mountain and 9 mentions for SBA Communications. Iron Mountain's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat SBA Communications' score of 0.98 indicating that Iron Mountain is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Iron Mountain	8 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
SBA Communications	6 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, IRM or SBAC?

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

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Iron Mountain	$5.48B	4.15	$184.23M	$0.63	123.05
SBA Communications	$2.71B	7.82	$501.81M	$4.61	42.57

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer IRM or SBAC?

SBA Communications received 391 more outperform votes than Iron Mountain when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.20% of users gave SBA Communications an outperform vote while only 63.44% of users gave Iron Mountain an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Iron Mountain	Outperform Votes 406 63.44%	Underperform Votes 234 36.56%
SBA Communications	Outperform Votes 797 67.20%	Underperform Votes 389 32.80%

Summary

SBA Communications beats Iron Mountain on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.