Iron Mountain (NYSE:IRM) and AMEN Properties (OTCMKTS:AMEN) Head to Head Analysis

Iron Mountain (NYSE:IRM) and AMEN Properties (OTCMKTS:AMEN) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Iron Mountain and AMEN Properties”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Iron Mountain	$5.48 billion	5.63	$184.23 million	$0.36	291.98
AMEN Properties	$3.68 million	7.20	$2.05 million	N/A	N/A

Iron Mountain has higher revenue and earnings than AMEN Properties.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations for Iron Mountain and AMEN Properties, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Iron Mountain	0	0	6	1	3.14
AMEN Properties	0	0	0	0	0.00

Iron Mountain presently has a consensus price target of $131.00, indicating a potential upside of 24.63%. Given Iron Mountain’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Iron Mountain is more favorable than AMEN Properties.

Dividends

Iron Mountain pays an annual dividend of $2.86 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. AMEN Properties pays an annual dividend of $40.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. Iron Mountain pays out 794.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Profitability

This table compares Iron Mountain and AMEN Properties’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Iron Mountain	1.77%	-44,660.04%	2.94%
AMEN Properties	52.71%	39.63%	32.88%

Volatility and Risk

Iron Mountain has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AMEN Properties has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

80.1% of Iron Mountain shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Iron Mountain shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 30.3% of AMEN Properties shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Iron Mountain beats AMEN Properties on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is a global leader in information management services. Founded in 1951 and trusted by more than 240,000 customers worldwide, Iron Mountain serves to protect and elevate the power of our customers’ work. Through a range of offerings including digital transformation, data centers, secure records storage, information management, asset lifecycle management, secure destruction and art storage and logistics, Iron Mountain helps businesses bring light to their dark data, enabling customers to unlock value and intelligence from their stored digital and physical assets at speed and with security, while helping them meet their environmental goals.

About AMEN Properties

AMEN Properties, Inc. owns oil and gas royalty and working interests in various oil and gas properties in the United States. It holds interests in oil gas and gas royalties through its ownership of SFF Royalty, LLC; and 100% interests in SFF Production, LLC. The company was formerly known as Crosswalk.com, Inc. and changed its name to AMEN Properties, Inc. in October 2002. AMEN Properties, Inc. was incorporated in 1993 and is based in Richardson, Texas.