IVR vs. ARI, RC, TWO, PMT, MFA, CIM, ARR, RWT, DX, and NYMT
Should you be buying Invesco Mortgage Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Invesco Mortgage Capital include Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Ready Capital (RC), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), MFA Financial (MFA), Chimera Investment (CIM), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Redwood Trust (RWT), Dynex Capital (DX), and New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
Invesco Mortgage Capital (NYSE:IVR) and Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and risk.
Invesco Mortgage Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.2%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.9%. Invesco Mortgage Capital pays out -228.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -179.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Invesco Mortgage Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Invesco Mortgage Capital has a net margin of -2.96% compared to Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's net margin of -28.20%. Invesco Mortgage Capital's return on equity of 62.02% beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity.
Invesco Mortgage Capital received 99 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 55.73% of users gave Invesco Mortgage Capital an outperform vote.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has higher revenue and earnings than Invesco Mortgage Capital. Invesco Mortgage Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Invesco Mortgage Capital currently has a consensus target price of $9.25, suggesting a potential downside of 0.43%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a consensus target price of $10.38, suggesting a potential upside of 2.72%. Given Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is more favorable than Invesco Mortgage Capital.
In the previous week, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance had 2 more articles in the media than Invesco Mortgage Capital. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance and 3 mentions for Invesco Mortgage Capital. Invesco Mortgage Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's score of 0.34 indicating that Invesco Mortgage Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Invesco Mortgage Capital has a beta of 1.85, meaning that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.69, meaning that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.
40.5% of Invesco Mortgage Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Invesco Mortgage Capital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Invesco Mortgage Capital beats Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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