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Crown Castle CCI Return on equity

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Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$1.0B-4.8%
Gross profit$984.0M-4.7%
Operating income$465.0M-10.8%
Net income$151.0M+133%
EPS (diluted)$0.34+132%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$325.0M+16.9%
Total debt$33.0B+5.9%
Total equity-$1.9B-53.2%
Total assets$31.4B-1.2%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$509.0M-20.6%
CapEx$57.0M+42.5%
Free cash flow$452.0M-24.8%

Valuation

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Market cap$37.43B-21.9%
Enterprise value$70.14B-10.7%
P/E35.4×
P/S8.9×-2.0×

Profitability

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Gross margin97.3%-0.3pp
Operating margin47.9%-0.1pp
Net margin25.1%+13.9pp

Returns & leverage

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Debt / equity5.7×+1.3×
Current ratio0.3×-0.1×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Crown Castle’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Crown Castle’s 10-Q, filed November 6, 2025, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Crown Castle's return on equity?
Crown Castle (CCI) reported return on equity of 20.5% in Q3 2024.
How has Crown Castle's return on equity changed year-over-year?
Crown Castle's return on equity decreased by 5.1% year-over-year, from 21.6% to 20.5%.
What is the long-term trend for Crown Castle's return on equity?
Over 2 years (2021 to 2023), Crown Castle's return on equity has grown at a 36.2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 47.5% to 88.1%.
What does return on equity mean?
How much profit the company earns on the money shareholders have invested.
How do you interpret return on equity?
Higher is better, but very high ROE can be manufactured by leverage — a thin equity base inflates the ratio. Read it next to debt-to-equity and ROIC to tell genuine returns from balance-sheet engineering.
How does return on equity compare across companies?
Comparable across peers, with the leverage caveat. Negative or near-zero equity makes ROE meaningless, so it is suppressed there.