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Iron Mountain Incorporated

IRM
45
REIT - Specialty · Real Estate
Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
Winston Score
45
Winston is serious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Iron Mountain helps businesses store and manage their important documents and data. Companies send their physical files, hard drives, and backup tapes to Iron Mountain's secure warehouses, where they are kept safe and organized. It is one of the largest records storage companies in the world, serving hospitals, banks, law firms, and government agencies across many industries.

Iron Mountain makes money by charging customers recurring fees to store their boxes and files over long periods of time. It operates in over 60 countries and manages billions of physical items, which makes it very hard for customers to switch providers once their records are stored. The company has also been expanding into data center services, where it stores digital information for businesses, and this segment is a key growth driver — though building new data centers requires heavy spending, which puts pressure on profits and adds financial risk.

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Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+21.6% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady revenue growth

EPS Growth

+785.6% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Strong earnings growth

Insider Activity

1.0%ownership

Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Runway

~4 months

$251M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

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Iron Mountain Incorporated has less than a year of cash at its current burn rate. Growth investors should watch for potential share dilution from future fundraising — that directly reduces your ownership.

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Quality

Gross Margin
54.0%
Healthy — 54.0% gross margin
Operating Margin
20.4%
Excellent — 20.4% operating margin
ROCE
2.6%
Weak — 2.6% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales YoY
+15.6%
Fast-growing sales (15.6% YoY)
EPS YoY
+119.7%
Earnings growing fast (119.7% YoY)

Earnings growing 25%+ a year. The compounder zone.

EPS Consistency
4/8 quarters
Earnings inconsistent quarter-to-quarter

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
544%
Turns 544% of profit into real cash
FCF Margin
-8.6%
Burning cash (-8.6%)

Free cash flow is negative. They are burning cash, not generating it.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
N/A
Data not available
Interest Cover
1.47x
Dangerous — barely covers interest (1.5x)

Interest coverage between 1 and 3. Profits cover interest, but with little room to spare.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
133.7x
no trend
Expensive — P/E 133.7

P/E over 35. The market is pricing in heavy, sustained growth.

P/E vs Forward
+96.1
GROWING
Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (133.7 → 37.6)

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Dividends

Dividend Yield
2.88%
no trend
Moderate income — 2.88% yield

Standard yield zone for stable dividend payers. A meaningful piece of total return.

Dividend Growth
+12.6%
no trend
Dividend growing fast (12.6% YoY)

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