How to buy Iron Mountain Incorporated stock | $45.54

Iron Mountain Incorporated is a reit-specialty business based in the US. Iron Mountain Incorporated shares (IRM) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Iron Mountain Incorporated employs 24,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around 0.00.

Iron Mountain Incorporated stock price (NYSE: IRM)

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Iron Mountain Incorporated shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-10-16.

Latest market close	$45.54
52-week range	$23.89 - $48.93
50-day moving average	$45.36
200-day moving average	$43.42
Wall St. target price	$40.13
PE ratio	21.3816
Dividend yield	$2.474 (5.52%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	$2.10

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Iron Mountain Incorporated price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $45.54 from 2021-10-20

1 week (2021-10-14)	1.70%
1 month (2021-09-21)	2.38%
3 months (2021-07-21)	3.76%
6 months (2021-04-21)	13.17%

1 year (2020-10-21)	66.33%
2 years (2019-10-21)	34.18%
3 years (2018-10-19)	41.52%
5 years (2016-10-21)	34.06%

Is Iron Mountain Incorporated under- or over-valued?

Valuing Iron Mountain Incorporated stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Iron Mountain Incorporated's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Iron Mountain Incorporated's P/E ratio

Iron Mountain Incorporated's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 21x. In other words, Iron Mountain Incorporated shares trade at around 21x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.

Iron Mountain Incorporated's PEG ratio

Iron Mountain Incorporated's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.08. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Iron Mountain Incorporated's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Iron Mountain Incorporated's EBITDA

Iron Mountain Incorporated's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $1.5 billion.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Iron Mountain Incorporated's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Iron Mountain Incorporated financials

Revenue TTM	$4.3 billion
Operating margin TTM	19.61%
Gross profit TTM	$2.4 billion
Return on assets TTM	3.67%
Return on equity TTM	52.91%
Profit margin	14.12%
Book value	$3.97
Market capitalisation	$13 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Iron Mountain Incorporated shares

There are currently 28.9 million Iron Mountain Incorporated shares held short by investors – that's known as Iron Mountain Incorporated's "short interest". This figure is 4.3% up from 27.7 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Iron Mountain Incorporated shares can be evaluated.

Iron Mountain Incorporated's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Iron Mountain Incorporated's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Iron Mountain Incorporated shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Iron Mountain Incorporated shares traded daily (recently around 1.6 million). Iron Mountain Incorporated's SIR currently stands at 17.65. In other words for every 100,000 Iron Mountain Incorporated shares traded daily on the market, roughly 17650 shares are currently held short.

However Iron Mountain Incorporated's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Iron Mountain Incorporated shares, or, against the total number of tradable Iron Mountain Incorporated shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Iron Mountain Incorporated's short interest could be expressed as 0.1% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Iron Mountain Incorporated shares in existence, roughly 100 shares are currently held short) or 0.1011% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Iron Mountain Incorporated shares, roughly 101 shares are currently held short).

A SIR above 10% would generally be considered pretty high, pointing to a potentially pessimistic outlook for the share price and a discouraging interest in betting against Iron Mountain Incorporated.

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Iron Mountain Incorporated's environmental, social and governance track record

Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Iron Mountain Incorporated.

When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.

Iron Mountain Incorporated's total ESG risk score

Total ESG risk: 14.62

Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Iron Mountain Incorporated's overall score of 14.62 (as at 12/31/2018) is excellent – landing it in it in the 7th percentile of companies rated in the same sector.

ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Iron Mountain Incorporated is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).

Iron Mountain Incorporated's environmental score

Environmental score: 1.78/100

Iron Mountain Incorporated's social score

Social score: 3.71/100

Iron Mountain Incorporated's governance score

Governance score: 3.64/100

Iron Mountain Incorporated's controversy score

Controversy score: 2/5

ESG scores also evaluate any incidences of controversy that a company has been involved in. Iron Mountain Incorporated scored a 2 out of 5 for controversy – the second-highest score possible, reflecting that Iron Mountain Incorporated has, for the most part, managed to keep its nose clean.

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) summary

Iron Mountain Incorporated was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.

Total ESG score	14.62
Total ESG percentile	7.25
Environmental score	1.78
Social score	3.71
Governance score	3.64
Level of controversy	2

Iron Mountain Incorporated share dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 97.79% of net profits

Recently Iron Mountain Incorporated has paid out, on average, around 97.79% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 5.51% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Iron Mountain Incorporated shareholders could enjoy a 5.51% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Iron Mountain Incorporated's case, that would currently equate to about $2.474 per share.

Iron Mountain Incorporated's payout ratio would broadly be considered high, and as such this stock could appeal to those looking to generate an income. Bear in mind however that companies should normally also look to re-invest a decent amount of net profits to ensure future growth.

Iron Mountain Incorporated's most recent dividend payout was on 5 October 2021. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 13 September 2021 (the "ex-dividend date").

Have Iron Mountain Incorporated's shares ever split?

Iron Mountain Incorporated's shares were split on a 1082:1000 basis on 25 September 2014. So if you had owned 1000 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1082 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Iron Mountain Incorporated shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 7.6% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Iron Mountain Incorporated shares which in turn could have impacted Iron Mountain Incorporated's share price.

Iron Mountain Incorporated share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Iron Mountain Incorporated's shares have ranged in value from as little as $23.8894 up to $48.9253. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Iron Mountain Incorporated's is 0.8481. This would suggest that Iron Mountain Incorporated's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Iron Mountain Incorporated overview

Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), founded in 1951, is the global leader for storage and information management services. Trusted by more than 225,000 organizations around the world, and with a real estate network of more than 90 million square feet across approximately 1,450 facilities in approximately 50 countries, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of valued assets, including critical business information, highly sensitive data, and cultural and historical artifacts. Providing solutions that include secure records storage, information management, digital transformation, secure destruction, as well as data centers, cloud services and art storage and logistics, Iron Mountain helps customers lower cost and risk, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and enable a more digital way of working. .

Frequently asked questions

What percentage of Iron Mountain Incorporated is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 1.019% of Iron Mountain Incorporated shares are held by insiders and 81.234% by institutions. How many people work for Iron Mountain Incorporated?
Latest data suggests 24,000 work at Iron Mountain Incorporated. When does the fiscal year end for Iron Mountain Incorporated?
Iron Mountain Incorporated's fiscal year ends in December. Where is Iron Mountain Incorporated based?
Iron Mountain Incorporated's address is: One Federal Street, Boston, MA, United States, 02110 What is Iron Mountain Incorporated's ISIN number?
Iron Mountain Incorporated's international securities identification number is: US46284V1017 What is Iron Mountain Incorporated's CUSIP number?
Iron Mountain Incorporated's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 462846106