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Array Digital Infrastructure, Inc.ADCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Communication Services›Wireless Telecommunications

Owns and operates over 4,400 US cell towers leased to wireless carriers, formerly United States Cellular Corporation.

Momentum laggard 17
Mkt cap
$2.59B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
29%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$8.88M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
27.6×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
-6.1 pp
WACC 6.2%
Hurdle
n/a
no reverse DCF
Next earnings
104 days
18 Feb 2027
Close · USD$29.98
1D-4.4%
1W-8.8%
1M-10.9%
3M-14.5%
6M-46.2%
YTD-44.1%
1Y-36.8%
ATR %3.9%
Beta0.27
52w lowhigh50.7% off high

What Array Digital Infrastructure does

Owns and operates over 4,400 US cell towers leased to wireless carriers, formerly United States Cellular Corporation.

Earns rent from carriers that place antennas on its towers under long leases, so income follows tenant count and escalators in those contracts. It became a pure tower landlord after its wireless customer business was sold to T-Mobile in 2025. Parent Telephone and Data Systems still controls it.

Products and services

  • Cell tower leasing
  • Tower co-location/build-to-suit

Customers

  • Wireless carriers (T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon)
  • Government agencies
  • Wireless ISPs/broadband providers

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Wireless infrastructure
  • Cell tower ownership/leasing
  • Shared wireless communications…

What could go right

  • 5G network densification demand
  • New tenant/co-location leasing

What could go wrong

  • Carrier consolidation reduces tenant count
  • Interest-rate sensitivity of tower assets

Moat: narrow (installed base, scale). Owning ~4,400 towers with existing carrier leases gives high switching costs for tenants, though larger tower REITs dwarf it in scale.

Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois · Founded: 1983 · Employees: 60

Named competitors

Array Digital Infrastructure at a glance

Size Array Digital Infrastructure (AD) is a United States Communication Services company (Wireless Telecommunications) with a market value of $2.59B, the 1629th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $29.98 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares fell 46.2%, against -9.0% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — lowest of 17 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue fell 94.2% over the last twelve months (peer median +5.4%); the operating margin is 0.8% (peer median 9.0%).

Valuation It trades at 27.6× forward earnings against a peer median of 16.9× (5th most expensive of 13).

Capital Return on invested capital runs 6.1 points below its cost of capital (6.2% WACC).

Backlog Backlog (remaining performance obligations) was $358M at 30 Jun 2025, down 10% on a year earlier — 0.1 years of trailing revenue. Backlog detail →

Short interest Short interest is 2.7% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 18 Feb 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

608010011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026Peer median 90AD 57
Six months, rebased to 100: Array Digital Infrastructure against the median of its 17 peers (local-currency closes).

Array Digital Infrastructure financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$214M$163M$103M$3.91B$4.17B
Revenue growth—+58%-97%-6%—
Gross profit$73.3M$35.2M-$17.3M$1.43B$1.40B
EBITDA$53.1M-$968,000-$72.6M$903M$886M
Net income$746M$291M-$39.4M$54.0M$30.0M
Free cash flow-$203M$174M$864M$258M$230M
Capital expenditure-$100.0M$31.4M$37.7M$738M$1.19B
Total debt$1.20B$1.20B$1.74B$4.03B$4.24B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Array Digital Infrastructure competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-50%-25%0%+25%+50%-20%-10%0%+10%0024659436TDSSUNNTKCATEXVEONOPLTPGELISA300959TIMBBHARTIHEXA02150315TLKAD6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Array Digital Infrastructure is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

-100%-50%0%25×50×75×9436TDSTKCVEONOPLTPGELISABHARTIHEXA0215TLKADRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Array Digital Infrastructure is the large dot.

Array Digital Infrastructure competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (AD vs AMT vs CCI vs SBAC)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Array Digital Infrastructure AD$2.59B-46%-94%1%27.6×n/a
American Tower AMT$87.6B+8%+5%44%27.8×n/a
Crown Castle CCI$37.7B-1%-16%48%31.6×n/a
SBA Communications SBAC$19.8B-13%+2%53%23.8×n/a

How Array Digital Infrastructure compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Array Digital Infrastructure against its 17 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureADPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return-10.9%-2.4%4th lowest of 18
6-month return-46.2%-9.0%lowest of 17
Distance from 52-week high-50.7%-27.8%4th lowest of 18
Revenue growth (TTM)-94.2%+5.4%lowest of 18
Operating margin0.8%9.0%6th lowest of 18
Forward P/E27.6×16.9×5th most expensive of 13
ROIC minus cost of capital-6.1 pp-3.8 pp6th lowest of 18
EV / EBITDA63.7×7.3×most expensive of 15
Net debt / EBITDA14.7×0.9×most indebted of 15

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Array Digital Infrastructure ADUnited States$2.59B-46%-94%1%27.6×n/an/a
Digi Spain Telecom, S.A. Unipersonal DIGIS.MCSpain$2.16Bn/a+19%6%n/an/an/a
Guangzhou Haige Communications 002465.SZChina$3.43B-38%+1%-16%n/an/an/a
Okinawa Cellular Telephone 9436.TJapan$1.90B-3%+5%24%21.2×-3.7%+3.1%
Telephone and Data Systems TDSUnited States$3.54B-29%-74%-3%92.2×n/an/a
Sunrise Communications SUNN.SWSwitzerland$3.92B+2%-1%3%n/a21.2%n/a
Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S. Sponsored ADR TKCUnited States$4.02B-31%+16%15%8.0×-12.0%+8.1%
Anterix ATEXUnited States$1.46B+33%+19%-579%n/a45.3%+47.8%
VEON Ltd. Sponsored ADR VEONUnited States$4.95B+57%+15%23%11.2×-4.8%-9.1%
Orange Polska OPL.WAPoland$5.53B+7%+5%9%19.4×13.2%+2.7%
TPG Telecom TPG.AXAustralia$5.58B+1%-5%8%34.8×8.1%+3.0%
Elisa ELISA.HEFinland$6.11B-17%0%20%14.3×-2.7%+3.6%
Wuxi Online Offline Communication Information Technology 300959.SZChina$808M-29%-50%-12%n/a21.5%-12.1%
TIM S.A. Sponsored ADR TIMBUnited States$8.61B-24%+14%25%9.4×-12.4%+7.3%
Bharti Hexacom BHARTIHEXA.NSIndia$8.84B+10%+8%29%36.6×33.4%+15.2%
Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong 0215.HKHong Kong$679M-9%+23%0%55.2×-7.2%+3.7%
SmarTone Telecommunications 0315.HKHong Kong$663M-9%+6%11%9.2×-17.5%-0.3%
PT Telkom Indonesia (Persero) Tbk Sponsored ADR TLKUnited States$10.3B-35%-3%24%9.5×-16.1%-1.1%

Array Digital Infrastructure backlog

Array Digital Infrastructure reported $358M of remaining performance obligations at 30 Jun 2025, down 10% from a year earlier and down 2% from the previous quarter. That is 0.1 years of trailing revenue already under contract. Book-to-bill last quarter: 0.99.

Questions

Who are Array Digital Infrastructure's main competitors?
Named competitors: American Tower (AMT), Crown Castle (CCI), SBA Communications (SBAC), Vertical Bridge (private or unlisted). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Digi Spain Telecom, S.A. Unipersonal (DIGIS.MC), Guangzhou Haige Communications (002465.SZ), Okinawa Cellular Telephone (9436.T), Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), Sunrise Communications (SUNN.SW), Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S. Sponsored ADR (TKC).
Is Array Digital Infrastructure expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 27.6× against a peer median of 16.9×, 5th most expensive of 13 in its peer set.
How has Array Digital Infrastructure stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned -46.2% against -9.0% for the median peer; over one year -36.8%.
What is Array Digital Infrastructure's backlog?
Array Digital Infrastructure's remaining performance obligations (contracted revenue not yet recognised) were $358M at 30 Jun 2025, -10% on a year earlier.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.