What Should Investors Know About American Tower (AMT) Stock?

By Tamara Parker • Wednesday, October 18 09:45 • Permanent Link

More and more people are talking about American Tower over the last few weeks. Is it worth buying the Specialty Real Estate Investment Trust stock at a price of $165.99? Only time will tell. The information below will give you a basic idea of what this investment may entail:

American Tower has moved -12.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 19.0%
AMT has an average analyst rating of buy and is -20.63% away from its mean target price of $209.13 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $2.05
American Tower has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 81.0 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $4.8 and its forward P/E ratio is 34.6
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 14.98 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
American Tower is part of the Real Estate sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 24.81 and an average P/B of 2.24
AMT has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -47.7% and gross profit margins of 0.7%
The company has a free cash flow of $4.71 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
American Tower, one of the largest global REITs, is a leading independent owner, operator and developer of multitenant communications real estate with a portfolio of nearly 226,000 communications sites and a highly interconnected footprint of U.S. data center facilities.

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