IRM vs. CTAS, CPRT, UNF, MGRC, KAR, HCSG, AMT, PLD, WELL, and EQIX
Should you be buying Iron Mountain stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Iron Mountain include Cintas (CTAS), Copart (CPRT), UniFirst (UNF), McGrath RentCorp (MGRC), OPENLANE (KAR), Healthcare Services Group (HCSG), American Tower (AMT), Prologis (PLD), Welltower (WELL), and Equinix (EQIX).
Iron Mountain vs. Its Competitors
Cintas (NASDAQ:CTAS) and Iron Mountain (NYSE:IRM) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and dividends.
Cintas received 123 more outperform votes than Iron Mountain when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.76% of users gave Iron Mountain an outperform vote while only 59.14% of users gave Cintas an outperform vote.
Cintas currently has a consensus target price of $215.81, indicating a potential downside of 2.09%. Iron Mountain has a consensus target price of $121.71, indicating a potential upside of 18.52%. Given Iron Mountain's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Iron Mountain is more favorable than Cintas.
Cintas has higher revenue and earnings than Iron Mountain. Cintas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Iron Mountain, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cintas pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Iron Mountain pays an annual dividend of $3.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Cintas pays out 36.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Iron Mountain pays out 765.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Cintas has increased its dividend for 42 consecutive years and Iron Mountain has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
63.5% of Cintas shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.1% of Iron Mountain shares are held by institutional investors. 15.0% of Cintas shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Iron Mountain shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Cintas has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Iron Mountain has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cintas has a net margin of 17.53% compared to Iron Mountain's net margin of 1.97%. Cintas' return on equity of 41.30% beat Iron Mountain's return on equity.
In the previous week, Cintas had 10 more articles in the media than Iron Mountain. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Cintas and 11 mentions for Iron Mountain. Cintas' average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Iron Mountain's score of 1.27 indicating that Cintas is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Cintas beats Iron Mountain on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Iron Mountain News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for IRM and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding IRM and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Iron Mountain Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
This page (NYSE:IRM) was last updated on 6/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
Buy IRM Stock Free IRM Stock Alerts