Uniti GroupUNIT
About: Uniti is a REIT with about 140,000 route miles of fiber in the us, primarily in the Southeast. It has agreed to merge with Windstream, which will result in Uniti giving up its REIT status and adding a consumer telecom business line. Uniti's business currently consists exclusively of fiber leasing to enterprises. Windstream currently leases the Uniti network and makes up the bulk of Uniti's revenue and profits. The combined firm will own 217,000 route miles of fiber and pass 4.3 million households and 150,000 commercial buildings, mostly in less populated markets in the Southeast. The firm will continue to offer fiber access to enterprises, as Uniti currently does, but residential telecom services will become its largest revenue stream.
Employees: 758
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2025 Q1 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
90% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $16.6M | Put options by funds: $8.72M
59% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 43 | Existing positions closed: 27
33% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 3 [Q4 2024] → 4 (+1) [Q1 2025]
4% more funds holding
Funds holding: 321 [Q4 2024] → 333 (+12) [Q1 2025]
1.31% more ownership
Funds ownership: 87.46% [Q4 2024] → 88.77% (+1.31%) [Q1 2025]
7% less capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $1.17B [Q4 2024] → $1.09B (-$81.9M) [Q1 2025]
12% less repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 98 | Existing positions reduced: 111
Research analyst outlook
2 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
2 analyst ratings
Citigroup Michael Rollins | 6%downside $5.30 | Neutral Reinstated | 16 May 2025 |
Wells Fargo Caleb Stein | 20%downside $4.50 | Equal-Weight Maintained | 8 May 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 4 articles about UNIT published over the past 30 days
