ARR vs. ARI, RC, TWO, PMT, MFA, CIM, RWT, DX, NYMT, and IVR
Should you be buying ARMOUR Residential REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ARMOUR Residential REIT 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), 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.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) and ARMOUR Residential REIT (NYSE:ARR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and risk.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance received 55 more outperform votes than ARMOUR Residential REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.86% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave ARMOUR Residential REIT an outperform vote.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.9%. ARMOUR Residential REIT pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.9%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -179.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ARMOUR Residential REIT pays out -400.0% 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. ARMOUR Residential REIT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
ARMOUR Residential REIT has a net margin of -3.83% compared to ARMOUR Residential REIT's net margin of -28.20%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity of 15.68% beat ARMOUR Residential REIT's return on equity.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has higher revenue and earnings than ARMOUR Residential REIT. ARMOUR Residential REIT 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.
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. Comparatively, ARMOUR Residential REIT has a beta of 1.48, meaning that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance presently has a consensus price target of $10.38, suggesting a potential upside of 2.72%. ARMOUR Residential REIT has a consensus price target of $19.25, suggesting a potential downside of 0.47%. Given ARMOUR Residential REIT's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is more favorable than ARMOUR Residential REIT.
In the previous week, ARMOUR Residential REIT had 4 more articles in the media than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for ARMOUR Residential REIT and 5 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat ARMOUR Residential REIT's score of 0.34 indicating that ARMOUR Residential REIT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.2% of ARMOUR Residential REIT shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of ARMOUR Residential REIT shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance beats ARMOUR Residential REIT on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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