Crown Castle International Corp vs Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF — how do they compare? Crown Castle International Corp trades at $73.8 (market cap $31.33B), while Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF trades at $381.91. The key difference: Crown Castle International Corp pays a 5.77% dividend while Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF pays none, and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF is trading nearer its 52-week high, Crown Castle International Corp nearer its low. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| CCI | VTI | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $31.33B | — |
Sector | Real Estate | — |
52-Week High | $103.79 | $381.78 |
52-Week Low | $73.61 | $311.68 |
Enterprise Value | $53.69B | — |
Dividend Yield | 5.77% | — |
Trailing returns across standard periods
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 →The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the index, which represents approximately 100% of the investable US stock market and includes large-, mid-, small-, and micro-cap stocks. It invests by sampling the index, meaning that it holds a broadly diversified collection of securities that, in the aggregate, approximates the full index in terms of key characteristics.
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