MITT vs. DX, NYMT, IVR, ACRE, NLY, AGNC, STWD, ARI, RC, and TWO
Should you be buying AG Mortgage Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AG Mortgage Investment Trust include Dynex Capital (DX), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR), Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), Annaly Capital Management (NLY), AGNC Investment (AGNC), Starwood Property Trust (STWD), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Ready Capital (RC), and Two Harbors Investment (TWO). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
Dynex Capital (NYSE:DX) and AG Mortgage Investment Trust (NYSE:MITT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
AG Mortgage Investment Trust received 15 more outperform votes than Dynex Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.74% of users gave AG Mortgage Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 59.68% of users gave Dynex Capital an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Dynex Capital and Dynex Capital both had 4 articles in the media. Dynex Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat AG Mortgage Investment Trust's score of -0.27 indicating that AG Mortgage Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AG Mortgage Investment Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Dynex Capital. AG Mortgage Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dynex Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dynex Capital presently has a consensus price target of $13.31, suggesting a potential upside of 8.67%. AG Mortgage Investment Trust has a consensus price target of $7.50, suggesting a potential upside of 9.97%. Given Dynex Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe AG Mortgage Investment Trust is more favorable than Dynex Capital.
Dynex Capital has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AG Mortgage Investment Trust has a beta of 1.98, meaning that its stock price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Dynex Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.7%. AG Mortgage Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.6%. Dynex Capital pays out 133.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. AG Mortgage Investment Trust pays out 41.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Dynex Capital has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and AG Mortgage Investment Trust has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Dynex Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Dynex Capital has a net margin of 30.50% compared to Dynex Capital's net margin of 20.84%. Dynex Capital's return on equity of 10.05% beat AG Mortgage Investment Trust's return on equity.
38.3% of Dynex Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.3% of AG Mortgage Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of Dynex Capital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of AG Mortgage Investment Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
AG Mortgage Investment Trust beats Dynex Capital on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get AG Mortgage Investment Trust News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for MITT and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding MITT and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
AG Mortgage Investment Trust Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
