Iron Mountain (NYSE:IRM – Get Free Report) and National Storage Affiliates Trust (NYSE:NSA – Get Free Report) are both real estate companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership and profitability.
Dividends
Iron Mountain pays an annual dividend of $3.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. National Storage Affiliates Trust pays an annual dividend of $2.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Iron Mountain pays out 247.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. National Storage Affiliates Trust pays out 304.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Iron Mountain has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and National Storage Affiliates Trust has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Profitability
This table compares Iron Mountain and National Storage Affiliates Trust’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Iron Mountain | 5.54% | -85.44% | 3.30% |
| National Storage Affiliates Trust | 10.48% | 6.46% | 1.54% |
Insider and Institutional Ownership
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Iron Mountain and National Storage Affiliates Trust”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Iron Mountain | $6.90 billion | 5.26 | $144.59 million | $1.40 | 87.12 |
| National Storage Affiliates Trust | $752.93 million | 4.45 | $73.78 million | $0.75 | 57.88 |
Iron Mountain has higher revenue and earnings than National Storage Affiliates Trust. National Storage Affiliates Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Iron Mountain, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Iron Mountain and National Storage Affiliates Trust, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Iron Mountain | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2.83 |
| National Storage Affiliates Trust | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1.85 |
Iron Mountain currently has a consensus price target of $135.17, suggesting a potential upside of 10.83%. National Storage Affiliates Trust has a consensus price target of $39.06, suggesting a potential downside of 10.02%. Given Iron Mountain’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Iron Mountain is more favorable than National Storage Affiliates Trust.
Risk & Volatility
Iron Mountain has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, National Storage Affiliates Trust has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Iron Mountain beats National Storage Affiliates Trust on 12 of the 17 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 National Storage Affiliates Trust
National Storage Affiliates Trust is a real estate investment trust headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado, focused on the ownership, operation and acquisition of self storage properties predominantly located within the top 100 metropolitan statistical areas throughout the United States. As of December 31, 2023, the Company held ownership interests in and operated 1,050 self storage properties, located in 42 states and Puerto Rico with approximately 68.6 million rentable square feet, which excludes 39 self storage properties classified as held for sale to be sold to a third party. NSA is one of the largest owners and operators of self storage properties among public and private companies in the United States.
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