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SBA Communications (SBAC) Q2 Earnings: How Key Metrics Compare to Wall Street Estimates
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SBA Communications (SBAC - Free Report) reported $660.48 million in revenue for the quarter ended June 2024, representing a year-over-year decline of 2.7%. EPS of $3.29 for the same period compares to $1.87 a year ago.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of -0.61% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $664.54 million. With the consensus EPS estimate being $3.28, the EPS surprise was +0.30%.
While investors closely watch year-over-year changes in headline numbers -- revenue and earnings -- and how they compare to Wall Street expectations to determine their next course of action, some key metrics always provide a better insight into a company's underlying performance.
Since these metrics play a crucial role in driving the top- and bottom-line numbers, comparing them with the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated about them helps investors better project a stock's price performance.
Here is how SBA Communications performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
Sites owned - International: 22,283 versus 22,335 estimated by three analysts on average.
Sites owned - Total: 39,744 versus 39,854 estimated by two analysts on average.
Sites built - Total: 100 versus the two-analyst average estimate of 116.
Sites decommissioned - Total: -111 versus the two-analyst average estimate of -93.
Sites owned - Domestic: 17,461 versus 17,559 estimated by two analysts on average.
Sites acquired - Total: 117 versus 193 estimated by two analysts on average.
Revenues- Site Development: $34.02 million compared to the $35.11 million average estimate based on three analysts. The reported number represents a change of -35% year over year.
Revenues- International Site Leasing: $163.25 million versus the three-analyst average estimate of $169.26 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of -3.6%.
Revenues- Domestic Site Leasing: $463.20 million versus $463.20 million estimated by three analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +1.4% change.
Revenues- Site Leasing: $626.46 million compared to the $632.46 million average estimate based on three analysts. The reported number represents a change of +0.1% year over year.
Net Earnings Per Share (Diluted): $1.51 versus the three-analyst average estimate of $1.78.
Segment operating profit- Site Leasing (Domestic + International): $512.33 million compared to the $517.23 million average estimate based on two analysts.
Shares of SBA Communications have returned +9.4% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's -0.2% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold), indicating that it could perform in line with the broader market in the near term.
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SBA Communications (SBAC) Q2 Earnings: How Key Metrics Compare to Wall Street Estimates
SBA Communications (SBAC - Free Report) reported $660.48 million in revenue for the quarter ended June 2024, representing a year-over-year decline of 2.7%. EPS of $3.29 for the same period compares to $1.87 a year ago.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of -0.61% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $664.54 million. With the consensus EPS estimate being $3.28, the EPS surprise was +0.30%.
While investors closely watch year-over-year changes in headline numbers -- revenue and earnings -- and how they compare to Wall Street expectations to determine their next course of action, some key metrics always provide a better insight into a company's underlying performance.
Since these metrics play a crucial role in driving the top- and bottom-line numbers, comparing them with the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated about them helps investors better project a stock's price performance.
Here is how SBA Communications performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Sites owned - International: 22,283 versus 22,335 estimated by three analysts on average.
- Sites owned - Total: 39,744 versus 39,854 estimated by two analysts on average.
- Sites built - Total: 100 versus the two-analyst average estimate of 116.
- Sites decommissioned - Total: -111 versus the two-analyst average estimate of -93.
- Sites owned - Domestic: 17,461 versus 17,559 estimated by two analysts on average.
- Sites acquired - Total: 117 versus 193 estimated by two analysts on average.
- Revenues- Site Development: $34.02 million compared to the $35.11 million average estimate based on three analysts. The reported number represents a change of -35% year over year.
- Revenues- International Site Leasing: $163.25 million versus the three-analyst average estimate of $169.26 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of -3.6%.
- Revenues- Domestic Site Leasing: $463.20 million versus $463.20 million estimated by three analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +1.4% change.
- Revenues- Site Leasing: $626.46 million compared to the $632.46 million average estimate based on three analysts. The reported number represents a change of +0.1% year over year.
- Net Earnings Per Share (Diluted): $1.51 versus the three-analyst average estimate of $1.78.
- Segment operating profit- Site Leasing (Domestic + International): $512.33 million compared to the $517.23 million average estimate based on two analysts.
View all Key Company Metrics for SBA Communications here>>>Shares of SBA Communications have returned +9.4% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's -0.2% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold), indicating that it could perform in line with the broader market in the near term.