How Crown Castle Inc. stacks up

CCI · against 182 other Real Estate companies listed in US-listed

Profitability

91/ 100

Near the top of its peers.

Ranked #16 of 183 · scores higher than 90% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score

20 peers with a profitability score of 90–100, including CCI · Click a bar to see the companies

Why profitability scores 91?

Weighted metrics compared with all Real Estate companies.

Mainly thanks to its return on invested capital, return on assets and operating margin, which are stronger than most Real Estate peers.

a wider operating margin: stronger than 68% of peers. Operating margin: 47.7% vs peer median 26.8%
a higher return on assets: stronger than 83% of peers. Return on assets: 4.0% vs peer median 2.1%
a higher return on invested capital: stronger than 91% of peers. Return on invested capital: 11.2% vs peer median 3.4%

Metric by metric

Position: dot = CCI, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	CCI	Peer median	Better than	Position among peers	Weight
Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 179 reported	11.2%	3.6%	92%		33%
Operating marginHigher is better · 160 reported	47.7%	23.6%	81%		33%
Return on assetsHigher is better · 185 reported	4.0%	1.9%	74%		33%
Return on equityHigher is better · 177 reported	Not reported	5.5%	—	—	Context only
Gross marginHigher is better · 186 reported	73.7%	66.3%	62%		Context only

A metric that is not reported is left out of the score; the other weights are rescaled.

Ranking by profitability score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around CCI

Rank	Company	Market cap	Profitability	Overall
1	Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.ARI · US-listed	310M USD	100	72
2	Annaly Capital Management, Inc.NLY · US-listed	13.7B USD	99	70
3	Apartment Investment and Management CompanyAIV · US-listed	255M USD	98	71
3	SBA Communications CorporationSBAC · US-listed	19.6B USD	98	48
5	Highwoods Properties, Inc.HIW · US-listed	3.5B USD	97	59
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12	LTC Properties, Inc.LTC · US-listed	2.5B USD	94	88
13	Simon Property Group, Inc.SPG · US-listed	84.3B USD	93	56
14	American Tower CorporationAMT · US-listed	87.3B USD	92	55
14	First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc.FR · US-listed	7.5B USD	92	61
16	Crown Castle Inc.CCI · US-listed	37.8B USD	91	45
16	Federal Realty Investment TrustFRT-PC · US-listed	Unavailable	91	73
16	Regency Centers CorporationREG · US-listed	14.1B USD	91	69
16	SL Green Realty Corp.SLG · US-listed	3.8B USD	91	41
20	Millrose Properties, Inc.MRP · US-listed	4.3B USD	90	94

Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score

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