Don't Buy Iron Mountain Before Checking Its Fundamentals!

By Harris Dyer • Thursday, January 04 10:02 • Permanent Link

Join us for a quick overview of Iron Mountain, a Specialty Real Estate Investment Trust company whose shares moved 1.5% today. Here are some facts about the stock that should help you see the bigger picture:

Iron Mountain has moved 35.3% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 23.5%
IRM has an average analyst rating of buy and is 1.24% away from its mean target price of $66.38 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $0.94
Iron Mountain has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 71.5 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $1.84 and its forward P/E ratio is 36.5
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 74.75 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Iron Mountain is part of the Real Estate sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 25.55 and an average P/B of 2.1
IRM has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -53.0% and gross profit margins of 0.6%
The company has a free cash flow of $21.92 Million, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is a global leader in information management, innovative storage, data center infrastructure, and asset lifecycle management. Founded in 1951 and trusted by more than 225,000 customers worldwide, Iron Mountain serves to protect and elevate the power of our customers' work. Through a range of offerings including digital transformation, data centers, secure records storage, information management, asset lifecycle management, secure destruction, and art storage and logistics, Iron Mountain helps businesses bring light to their dark data, enabling customers to unlock value and intelligence from their stored digital and physical assets at speed and with security, while helping them meet their environmental goals.

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