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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Real Estate · CIK 0001051470
$78.65
-3.07% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 21, 2026
$34.21B market value
From CROWN CASTLE INC.'s FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026 · read the filing
CROWN CASTLE owns income-producing property as a REIT. It took in $215.0M last year, which makes it a smaller company. Of every dollar it sells, about 207 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by profitability, with growth worth watching, while debt remain weak.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Recent open-market selling by Collins Robert Sean, not under a pre-arranged plan.
$113.8K sold in the last 120 days · Read the filing
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
A mixed picture — some clear strengths and some weaknesses.
From CROWN CASTLE INC.'s FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Profit
-$3.90B → $444.0M
Operating margin
1103.1% → 965.1%
Profit margin
-2032.8% → 206.5%
Earnings per share
-$8.97 → $1.02
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 23, 2026
Improved: turned positive
-$3.90B to $444.0MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
CCI fell 3.07% on the latest quote. The average Real Estate company tracked here moved +1.97%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 5.0 points below its sector and 2.0 points below the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 27 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 27 analysts publishing on this company, 6 say strong buy, 10 say buy, 9 say hold and 2 say sell. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 207 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $444.0M last year.
Slowly. Sales grew 12.0% last year.
For every $1 it owes, it owns $0.95 in assets. Banks and insurers always carry high debt — that is how lending works — so this is normal for the industry and not comparable with other sectors.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 468% of its profit. Property trusts are required to distribute most of their income and report profit after heavy depreciation, so a figure above 100% is normal here rather than a warning. It paid out 68% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
GoodNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $444.0M and generated $3.06B of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 23, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 23, 2026Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 23, 2026Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Mar 14, 2025Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 24, 2023Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $215.0M | $192.0M | $421.0M | $697.0M | $621.0M | +12.0% |
| Cost of revenue | $113.0M | $107.0M | $304.0M | $466.0M | $439.0M | +5.6% |
| Gross profit | $102.0M† | $85.0M† | $117.0M† | $231.0M† | $182.0M† | +20.0% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 47.4% | 44.3% | 27.8% | 33.1% | 29.3% | +3.2 pts |
| Selling, general and administrative | $383.0M | $435.0M | $502.0M | $750.0M | $680.0M | −12.0% |
| Operating income | $2.08B | $2.12B | $2.10B | $2.42B | $2.00B | −2.0% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 965.1% | 1103.1% | 498.1% | 347.9% | 322.2% | −138.0 pts |
| Interest expense | $972.0M | $932.0M | $849.0M | -$699.0M | $657.0M | +4.3% |
| Income before tax | $1.12B | $1.18B | $1.26B | $1.69B | $1.18B | −5.2% |
| Net income | $444.0M | -$3.90B | $1.50B | $1.68B | $1.10B | n/m |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 206.5% | -2032.8% | 356.8% | 240.3% | 176.5% | +2239.3 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $1.02 | $-8.97 | $3.46 | $3.87 | $2.54 | n/m |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCICROWN CASTLE INC. · this page | 6.0/10 | 7/9 |
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Exercised stock options — 24,466 shares
Holds 24,466 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 7,340 shares
Holds 31,806 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Published results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 35 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 4 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from CCI's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 23, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 9 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 6.0 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 2.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Mar 14, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 6.0 | 4/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 7.3 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 8.7 | 8/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 22, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 6.0 | 4/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 22, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
7 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Deteriorated: −138.0 pts
1103.1% to 965.1%Critical
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +2239.3 pts
-2032.8% to 206.5%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: turned positive
-$8.97 to $1.02Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +20.0%
$85.0M to $102.0MSignificant
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +3.2 pts
44.3% to 47.4%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Changed: -23.8%
$2.73B to $2.08BSignificant
Why it matters: Cash handed to shareholders. A rise can be a higher dividend or simply more shares, and a cut is a decision the company explains in its own filing — neither is rated here.
Improved: +12.0%
$192.0M to $215.0MNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 5, 2026 — read it.
Deteriorated: -67.7%
$291.0M to $94.0MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +173.3 pts
973.1% to 1146.3%Critical
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: −330.4 pts
559.6% to 229.3%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Deteriorated: -67.0%
$0.67 to $0.22Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +1008.5%
$94.0M to $1.04BCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: -21.2%
$52.0M to $41.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +5.6 pts
48.1% to 53.7%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Improved: -27.5%
$22.04B to $15.98BSignificant
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Deteriorated: -12.0%
$25.0M to $22.0MNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Deteriorated: -7.1%
$506.0M to $470.0MNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: -2.1%
435.0M to 426.0MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Aug 5, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: +197.4 pts
949.0% to 1146.3%Critical
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: −78.9 pts
308.2% to 229.3%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +1794.5%
$55.0M to $1.04BCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: -16.3%
$49.0M to $41.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Deteriorated: -37.7%
$151.0M to $94.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +6.7 pts
46.9% to 53.7%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Deteriorated: -36.3%
$0.35 to $0.22Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: -25.8%
$21.53B to $15.98BSignificant
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Improved: -2.3%
436.0M to 426.0MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
6 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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About 2.2% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
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The trailing P/E is 39.8x — a high multiple relative to the current trailing profit.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
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Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 12,160 shares at $74.17 ($901.9K)
Holds 19,646 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 1,500 shares at $75.89 ($113.8K)
Holds 5,113 shares after this filing.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Quarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue -21.2% · Operating margin +173.3 pts · Profit -67.7% — against Q2 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Operating margin −93.0 pts · Profit turned positive · Profit margin +1236.2 pts — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Terminated a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingCompleted an acquisition or disposal · Had a director or senior officer leave or join · Published results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Revenue +12.0% · Operating margin −138.0 pts · Profit turned positive — against FY2024
Read the filingAnnounced restructuring or exit costs · Published results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Revenue +11.1% · Operating margin −110.2 pts · Profit margin −22.8 pts — against Q3 FY2025
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingSource: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-02-23. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
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