Crown Castle International Corp vs Snowflake Inc — how do they compare? Crown Castle International Corp trades at $73.8 (market cap $31.33B), while Snowflake Inc trades at $331.35 (market cap $116.01B). The key difference: Snowflake Inc is far larger — about 3.7× Crown Castle International Corp's market cap, and Crown Castle International Corp pays a 5.77% dividend while Snowflake Inc pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| CCI | SNOW | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $31.33B | $116.01B |
Sector | Real Estate | Technology |
52-Week High | $103.79 | $334.70 |
52-Week Low | $73.61 | $121.11 |
Enterprise Value | $53.69B | $115.82B |
Dividend Yield | 5.77% | — |
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Crown Castle International owns and leases roughly 40,000 cell towers in the United States. It also owns more than 85,000 route miles of fiber. It leases space on its towers to wireless service providers, which install equipment on the towers to support their wireless networks. The company's fiber is primarily leased by wireless service providers to set up small-cell network infrastructure and by enterprises for their internal connection needs. Crown Castle's towers and fiber are predominantly located in the largest U.S. cities. The company has a very concentrated customer base, with more than 70% of its revenue coming from the big three U.S. mobile carriers. Crown Castle operates as a real estate investment trust.
Read more on CCI →Founded in 2012, Snowflake is a data lake, warehousing, and sharing company that came public in 2020. To date, the company has over 3,000 customers including nearly 30% of the Fortune 500 as its customers. Snowflake's data lake stores unstructured and semistructured data that can then be used in analytics to create insights stored in its data warehouse. Snowflake's data sharing capability allows enterprises to easily buy and ingest data almost instantaneously compared with a traditionally months-long process. Overall, the company is known for the fact that all of its data solutions that can be hosted on various public clouds.
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