Sba Communications Corp
Sba Communications Corp (SBAC) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in REIT - Specialty, part of the Real Estate sector. It is headquartered in Boca Raton, United States and has 1,844 employees. The company is worth $18.93B and trades at 18.7x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 22.1x. Revenue was $2.82B in fiscal 2025, up 5.1% from the year before. Net income was $1.05B. The share price is 20.5% below its 52-week high of $224.46. It pays a dividend yielding 2.80%, and has raised its annual dividend for 5 years in a row in our records. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Ken Griffin (Citadel Advisors), at $228.13M. In that quarter, 3 of them opened or added to the position and 3 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▼ -45.6% over 5Y.
today you would have $589.05▼ -41.1%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 18 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $193.43 | $203.80 | $253.69 | $280.31 | $389.02 | $282.13 | $240.99 | $161.89 | $163.36 | $103.26 | $105.07 | $110.76 | $89.84 | $70.98 | $42.96 | $40.94 | $34.16 | $16.32 | |
| P/E | 117.9x | 19.7x | 29.4x | 55.0x | 66.4x | 181.8x | 1343.5x | 188.3x | 394.9x | 190.0x | 169.3x | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| P/S | 9.4x | 7.3x | 8.2x | 10.1x | 11.5x | 18.2x | 14.8x | 13.4x | 9.8x | 11.0x | 7.6x | 8.0x | 9.4x | 8.8x | 9.4x | 6.8x | 7.5x | 7.2x | — |
| P/B | 14.3x | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 32.3x | 13.8x | — | 14.8x | 6.7x | — |
| EPS | $9.80 | $6.94 | $4.61 | $4.22 | $2.14 | $0.21 | $1.28 | $0.41 | $0.86 | $0.61 | -$1.37 | -$0.19 | -$0.44 | -$1.51 | -$1.14 | -$1.68 | -$1.20 | — | |
| Dividend yield | 1.01% | 2.30% | 1.92% | 1.34% | 1.01% | 0.60% | 0.66% | 0.31% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Payout | 67.30% | 45.31% | 56.48% | 73.75% | 67.30% | 108.41% | 885.71% | 57.81% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Profit margin | 1.85% | 37.43% | 27.97% | 18.51% | 17.52% | 10.29% | 1.16% | 7.30% | 2.54% | 6.00% | 4.67% | -10.72% | -1.59% | -4.28% | -18.97% | -18.11% | -31.07% | -25.36% | -14.14% |
| ROE | -23.48% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -15.66% | -27.72% | — | -61.39% | -23.48% | -10.32% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Earnings growing 25.0% a year plus a 2.8% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 22.1 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 117.9 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 15.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 14.1x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividend growing 7.5% a year against a 9.0% required return, from the stock’s beta.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 4 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+64.6% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
Companies of similar size in Real Estate, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEKEKE Holdings Inc. | $17.24 | 28.7x | 1.9x | 1.62% | 7.00% | $18.94B |
| ESSEssex Property Trust Inc | $282.45 | 42.6x | 3.4x | 3.67% | 7.71% | $19.47B |
| HSTHost Hotels & Resorts Inc | $24.87 | 16.8x | 2.7x | 6.71% | 15.56% | $17.28B |
| INVHInvitation Homes Inc. | $27.53 | 25.3x | 1.8x | 4.36% | 7.05% | $16.26B |
| LAMRLamar Advertising Co/new | $157.51 | 28.7x | 16.3x | 4.19% | 59.43% | $16B |
| KIMKimco Realty Corp | $23.59 | 26.8x | 1.5x | 4.75% | 5.81% | $15.82B |