Crown Castle – A Snapshot of the Stock

By Naomi Wentworth • Wednesday, February 12 15:07 • Permanent Link

Crown Castle logged a -0.9% change during today's afternoon session, and is now trading at a price of $90.42 per share. The S&P 500 index moved -0.0%. CCI's trading volume is 898,564 compared to the stock's average volume of 3,142,213.

Crown Castle trades -17.68% away from its average analyst target price of $109.83 per share. The 18 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $84.0 to $135.0, and on average have given Crown Castle a rating of hold.

Anyone interested in buying CCI should be aware of the facts below:

Crown Castle's current price is 167.3% above its Graham number of $33.83, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Crown Castle has moved -13.8% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 21.4%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 2.82, Crown Castle has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 32.1 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
CCI has a forward P/E ratio of 33.7 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $2.68 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 7.43 compared to its sector average of 2.15
Crown Castle owns, operates and leases more than 40,000 cell towers and approximately 90,000 route miles of fiber supporting small cells and fiber solutions across every major U.S.
Based in Houston, the company has 4,700 full time employees and a market cap of $39.3 Billion. Crown Castle currently returns an annual dividend yield of 6.9%.

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