Crown Castle Inc CCI

Morningstar Rating
$66.44 +0.32 (0.48%)
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Growth Likely Won't Excite, but Crown Crown Castle's Vital Infrastructure Should Deliver Stability

Crown Castle has pursued a different growth strategy than its two largest competitors by focusing solely on the US telecom market. Efforts to build fiber networks and promote small cells to wireless carriers ended with poor returns on capital. The firm wisely, in our view, decided to sell its fiber business, closing the transaction in May 2026. Crown is now a pure US wireless tower operator with few major growth opportunities in front of it, but its infrastructure is still critical to the functioning of US wireless networks.

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Bulls Say, Bears Say

Bulls

The wireless carriers' continued rollout of 5G technology and new spectrum bands should drive organic growth for Crown Castle through contract amendments and co-locations.

Bears

With only a US tower business, Crown Castle has much weaker growth prospects relative to peers American Tower and SBA.

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Trading Information

Previous Close Price
$66.12
Day Range
$65.83–68.18
52-Week Range
$65.68–100.50
Bid/Ask
$66.45 / $68.42
Shares Outstanding
425.46M
Market Cap
$28.27B
Volume/Avg
3M / 4M

Key Statistics

Price/Earnings (Normalized)
25.79
Price/Sales
6.94
Dividend Yield (Trailing)
6.43%
Dividend Yield (Forward)
6.43%
Dividend Payment Schedule
Mar, Jun, Sep, Dec
Total Yield
10.04%

Company Profile

Crown Castle owns or manages roughly 40,000 wireless towers in the United States. It leases space on its towers to wireless service providers, which install equipment to support their wireless networks. The company has a very concentrated customer base, with about 90% of its revenue from the Big Three US mobile carriers: Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T. Crown Castle has plans to divest its fiber business, which is expected to be finalized in the first half of 2026. After that, it will be a stand-alone tower operator. Crown Castle operates as a real estate investment trust.
Sector
Real Estate
Industry
REIT - Specialty
Stock Style Box
Mid Value
Total Number of Employees
4,000

Competitors

Valuation

Metric
CCI
SBAC
AMT
Price/Earnings (Normalized)
25.7918.3622.05
Price/Book Value
——20.18
Price/Sales
6.945.876.88
Price/Cash Flow
15.5311.7513.05
Price/Earnings
CCI
SBAC
AMT

Financial Strength

Metric
CCI
SBAC
AMT
Quick Ratio
0.430.140.30
Current Ratio
0.520.170.35
Interest Coverage
2.163.323.72
Quick Ratio
CCI
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AMT

Profitability

Metric
CCI
SBAC
AMT
Return on Assets (Normalized)
3.93%8.98%5.89%
Return on Equity (Normalized)
——100.77%
Return on Invested Capital (Normalized)
7.68%13.68%8.73%
Return on Assets
CCI
SBAC
AMT

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