Quick Update for Crown Castle (CCI) Investors

By Harris Dyer • Thursday, December 22 12:01 • Permanent Link

Crown Castle marked a 0.1% change today, compared to -2.0% for the S&P 500. Is it a good value at today's price of $134.7? Only an in-depth analysis can answer that question, but here are some facts that can give you an idea:

Crown Castle owns, operates and leases more than 40,000 cell towers and approximately 80,000 route miles of fiber supporting small cells and fiber solutions across every major U.S.
Crown Castle belongs to the Real Estate sector, which has an average price to earnings (P/E) ratio of 27.16 and an average price to book (P/B) of 2.39
The company's P/B ratio is 7.6
Crown Castle has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 36.1 based on its trailing 12 month price to earnings (Eps) of $3.73 per share
Its forward P/E ratio is 35.6, based on its forward earnings per share (Eps) of $3.78
CCI has a Price to Earnings Growth (PEG) ratio of 3.14, which shows the company is overvalued when we factor growth into the price to earnings calculus.
Over the last four years, Crown Castle has averaged free cash flows of $1,082,750,000.00, which on average grew 37.4%
Crown Castle has moved -32.5% over the last year compared to -17.9% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of -14.6%
CCI has an average analyst rating of buy and is -14.9% away from its mean target price of $158.29 per share

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