Crown Castle

Crown Castle owns and operates about 40,000 cell towers across the United States and leases space on these towers to wireless carriers like Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile [Yahoo Finance]. The company generates predictable rental income from long-term contracts with these carriers, functioning as a real estate investment trust (REIT) in the telecom infrastructure space [Yahoo Finance]. They are currently dividing up and selling their fiber optic cable and small cell businesses to become a pure-play tower company [Yahoo Finance].

Crown Castle is a U.S. cell tower real estate company that owns and leases approximately 40,000 towers nationwide [Yahoo Finance]. The company is undergoing a major transformation by selling off its fiber and small cell businesses to focus exclusively on tower rentals [Yahoo Finance]. Recent financials show a swing to profitability but core tower revenue declined 5% due to major customer losses from DISH and Sprint [Yahoo Finance].

Crown Castle has strong profit margins and cash flow but carries extremely high debt relative to earnings, creating material refinancing risk [Yahoo Finance].