How Iron Mountain Incorporated stacks up

IRM · against 21 other Real Estate companies of similar size

Profitability

56/ 100

Below the middle of the pack.

Ranked #12 of 22 · scores higher than 48% of peers

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

2 peers with a profitability score of 50–59, including IRM · Click a bar to see the companies

Why profitability scores 56?

Weighted metrics compared with all Real Estate companies.

Its metrics sit close to the Real Estate norm.

Operating margin is close to the peer norm. Operating margin: 18.8% vs peer median 26.8%
Return on assets is close to the peer norm. Return on assets: 2.0% vs peer median 2.1%
a higher return on invested capital: stronger than 83% of peers. Return on invested capital: 7.1% vs peer median 3.4%

Metric by metric

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

Metric	IRM	Peer median	Better than	Position among peers	Weight
Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 21 reported	7.1%	4.3%	65%		33%
Operating marginHigher is better · 22 reported	18.8%	29.2%	38%		33%
Return on assetsHigher is better · 22 reported	2.0%	2.9%	29%		33%
Return on equityHigher is better · 19 reported	Not reported	8.0%	—	—	Context only
Gross marginHigher is better · 22 reported	54.2%	62.3%	38%		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 IRM

Rank	Company	Market cap	Profitability	Overall
1	SBA Communications CorporationSBAC · US-listed	19.6B USD	98	48
2	Public StoragePSA · US-listed	62.3B USD	96	49
3	Crown Castle Inc.CCI · US-listed	37.8B USD	91	45
4	VICI Properties Inc.VICI · US-listed	26.9B USD	89	78
5	Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.HST · US-listed	17.9B USD	88	67
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8	Goodman GroupGMG.AX · Australia & NZ	56.1B AUD (≈$37.0B)	83	70
9	AvalonBay Communities, Inc.VMRK · US-listed	48.0B USD	70	44
10	Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd.1925.T · Japan	2.85T JPY (≈$19.4B)	65	67
11	Essex Property Trust, Inc.ESS · US-listed	18.3B USD	59	38
12	Iron Mountain IncorporatedIRM · US-listed	34.7B USD	56	45
13	AvalonBay Communities IncAVB · US-listed	26.3B USD	45	41
13	Equity ResidentialEQR · US-listed	24.6B USD	45	42
15	Realty Income CorporationO · US-listed	54.4B USD	41	57
16	Swire Properties Limited1972.HK · Hong Kong	148.3B HKD (≈$19.0B)	40	51

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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