Financial Survey: Iron Mountain (NYSE:IRM) and NewLake Capital Partners (OTCMKTS:NLCP)

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

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares NewLake Capital Partners and Iron Mountain”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
NewLake Capital Partners	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Iron Mountain	$6.90 billion	4.93	$144.59 million	$1.40	81.67

Iron Mountain has higher revenue and earnings than NewLake Capital Partners.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for NewLake Capital Partners and Iron Mountain, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NewLake Capital Partners	0	1	1	0	2.50
Iron Mountain	0	2	5	0	2.71

NewLake Capital Partners presently has a consensus target price of $15.75, suggesting a potential upside of 1.82%. Iron Mountain has a consensus target price of $137.67, suggesting a potential upside of 20.40%. Given Iron Mountain’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Iron Mountain is more favorable than NewLake Capital Partners.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

80.1% of Iron Mountain shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Iron Mountain shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares NewLake Capital Partners and Iron Mountain’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NewLake Capital Partners	N/A	N/A	N/A
Iron Mountain	5.54%	-85.44%	3.30%

Summary

Iron Mountain beats NewLake Capital Partners on 8 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About NewLake Capital Partners

NewLake Capital Partners, Inc. is an internally-managed real estate investment trust that provides real estate capital to state-licensed cannabis operators through sale-leaseback transactions and third-party purchases and funding for build-to-suit projects. NewLake owns a portfolio of 31 properties comprised of 14 cultivation facilities and 17 dispensaries that are leased to single tenants on a triple-net basis.

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.