CIM vs. ARI, RC, TWO, PMT, MFA, ARR, RWT, DX, NYMT, and IVR
Should you be buying Chimera Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chimera Investment include Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Ready Capital (RC), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), MFA Financial (MFA), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Redwood Trust (RWT), Dynex Capital (DX), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), and Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
Chimera Investment (NYSE:CIM) and Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Chimera Investment had 3 more articles in the media than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Chimera Investment and 5 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Chimera Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's score of 0.34 indicating that Chimera Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
48.4% of Chimera Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Chimera Investment shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Chimera Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.1%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.9%. Chimera Investment pays out 86.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -179.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Chimera Investment has a beta of 1.68, suggesting that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.69, suggesting that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Chimera Investment has a net margin of 25.73% compared to Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's net margin of -28.20%. Chimera Investment's return on equity of 7.46% beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity.
Chimera Investment received 89 more outperform votes than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.86% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote while only 58.04% of users gave Chimera Investment an outperform vote.
Chimera Investment presently has a consensus target price of $16.50, suggesting a potential upside of 38.66%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a consensus target price of $10.38, suggesting a potential upside of 2.72%. Given Chimera Investment's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Chimera Investment is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
Chimera Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chimera Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Chimera Investment beats Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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