$33.37

-1.26 (-3.64%)

10/6/2008 4:04 PM

American Tower Corp (AMT)

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A wireless and broadcast communications infrastructure company. The Company's primary business is leasing antenna space on multi-tenant communications sites to wireless service providers and radio and television broadcast companies.

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Diversified Communication Services (56), Large Cap (467), Options Backdating (?) (115), Boston (6), Massachusetts (16), Telecom Services - Domestic (45)
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American Tower Corp At A Glance

Current Price:	$33.37
Last Trade Time:	10/6/2008 4:04 PM
Open:	$0.00
Previous Close:	$34.63
Daily Range:	$31.00 - $34.15
52-Week Range:	$31.89 - $46.53
Volume:	8,468,416
Market Cap:	$15.64B
P/E Ratio:	107.32
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Other News Headlines for AMT

American Tower swings to profit in 2Q
7/30/2008 2:46:00 PM - AP
Ahead of the Bell: RBC upgrades tower operators
7/3/2008 9:17:00 AM - AP
Analyst notes Discovery Communications progress
6/12/2008 2:01:00 PM - AP
American Tower CFO resigns, moves to new company
6/11/2008 4:53:00 PM - AP

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3 American Tower Corp (AMT)

Avatar firsttim (91.38) Submitted: 3/01/08 9:08 PM

With the current 700Mhz auction underway and the battle waging between the wireless carriers, AMT is poised to be the winner of all. To top it off AMT has a ton of South American exposure!

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1 American Tower Corp (AMT)

Avatar Diligent (39.44) Submitted: 11/26/06 2:28 AM

Fundamentally overvalued

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Recs 0 (AMT) jgseattle (25.05) Submitted: 9/16/08 5:00 PM : Start Price: $40.57 AMT Score: -0.83 large tower company. Should almost be looked at as a REIT. Think the coming recession is going to hit it hard since new capital expenditures for cell infrastruture will slow to next to nothing. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (AMT) GobiTheMansoe (47.75) Submitted: 8/05/08 7:45 PM : Start Price: $41.19 AMT Score: -0.78 too much compitition in wireless service, but the industry has a lot of devlopment as a whole, especially with 3G and 4G networks. AMT is probably a more reliable way to tap into this. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (AMT) tutaemeia (80.80) Submitted: 6/30/08 5:34 PM : Start Price: $41.61 AMT Score: 2.51 Looking for finacial ratios we can see that AMT doesn't seems a good bet for investors: PER = 233x (overvalued) P/B = 5,64 (too much especulation) Price/Sales = 11,06 ROE = only 3% And if this is not suficient to convince you to short, let me tell you that only 0,04% of AMT stocks are in the hand of the administration! If even the administrators don't believe in the company that they are managing, do you gone bet in it? Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (AMT) jrb2800 (55.99) Submitted: 6/03/08 12:19 PM : Start Price: $45.08 AMT Score: 1.12 AMT owns and leases broadcast communication towers to wireless/wireline/radio/cable operators on a long-term basis. They have a stable and consistent revenue stream as most contracts are in the 15 year range and with only a handful of operators in this space the demand will outweigh supply as the race to build more towers is on. The debt/equity seems high at first glance but is in line with competitors, as debt and securitization financing is used to fund new towers. With all of that being said, debt costs have increased and new deal financing has obviously dried up. The stock is retesting its all-time high just above $46 but we don't foresee a breakout, but rather a topping pattern forming. With a great reward/risk for a short trade, we are long October $45 Puts as we see 7-8 points of downside over the next few months and have a stop loss just above the all-time high of $46.53. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (AMT) waitin4him (< 20) Submitted: 5/29/08 1:03 PM : Start Price: $45.42 AMT Score: -0.93 As oil climbs this stock does as well. They own/lease a huge amount of towers and locations that will for the next few years only increase in value as technology seeks to fill the gap left by rising oil and transportation prices. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out.
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