AGNC vs. MGP, STOR, NLY, STWD, CPT, REG, VER, ARI, RC, and TWO
Should you be buying AGNC Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AGNC Investment include MGM Growth Properties (MGP), STORE Capital (STOR), Annaly Capital Management (NLY), Starwood Property Trust (STWD), Camden Property Trust (CPT), Regency Centers (REG), VEREIT (VER), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Ready Capital (RC), and Two Harbors Investment (TWO). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
MGM Growth Properties (NYSE:MGP) and AGNC Investment (NASDAQ:AGNC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
MGM Growth Properties has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AGNC Investment has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AGNC Investment has a consensus price target of $9.79, indicating a potential upside of 2.04%. Given MGM Growth Properties' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe AGNC Investment is more favorable than MGM Growth Properties.
AGNC Investment received 305 more outperform votes than MGM Growth Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.33% of users gave AGNC Investment an outperform vote while only 56.68% of users gave MGM Growth Properties an outperform vote.
MGM Growth Properties has higher earnings, but lower revenue than AGNC Investment. AGNC Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MGM Growth Properties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, AGNC Investment had 10 more articles in the media than MGM Growth Properties. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for AGNC Investment and 0 mentions for MGM Growth Properties. AGNC Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat MGM Growth Properties' score of 0.58 indicating that MGM Growth Properties is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AGNC Investment has a net margin of 32.12% compared to AGNC Investment's net margin of 27.27%. MGM Growth Properties' return on equity of 27.14% beat AGNC Investment's return on equity.
MGM Growth Properties pays an annual dividend of $2.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. AGNC Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.0%. MGM Growth Properties pays out 154.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. AGNC Investment pays out 158.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. AGNC Investment has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. AGNC Investment is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
89.4% of MGM Growth Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.3% of AGNC Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of MGM Growth Properties shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of AGNC Investment shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
AGNC Investment beats MGM Growth Properties on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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