IVR vs. ACRE, NYMT, MITT, DX, RWT, ARR, CIM, MFA, PMT, and TWO
Should you be buying Invesco Mortgage Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Invesco Mortgage Capital include Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT), Dynex Capital (DX), Redwood Trust (RWT), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Chimera Investment (CIM), MFA Financial (MFA), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), and Two Harbors Investment (TWO). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
Ares Commercial Real Estate (NYSE:ACRE) and Invesco Mortgage Capital (NYSE:IVR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment and valuation.
41.3% of Ares Commercial Real Estate shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.5% of Invesco Mortgage Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of Ares Commercial Real Estate shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Invesco Mortgage Capital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Invesco Mortgage Capital had 3 more articles in the media than Ares Commercial Real Estate. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Invesco Mortgage Capital and 0 mentions for Ares Commercial Real Estate. Ares Commercial Real Estate's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Invesco Mortgage Capital's score of -0.17 indicating that Invesco Mortgage Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ares Commercial Real Estate has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Invesco Mortgage Capital has a beta of 1.85, meaning that its share price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ares Commercial Real Estate currently has a consensus target price of $8.42, suggesting a potential upside of 23.41%. Invesco Mortgage Capital has a consensus target price of $9.25, suggesting a potential downside of 1.70%. Given Invesco Mortgage Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Ares Commercial Real Estate is more favorable than Invesco Mortgage Capital.
Invesco Mortgage Capital received 103 more outperform votes than Ares Commercial Real Estate when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.00% of users gave Ares Commercial Real Estate an outperform vote while only 55.73% of users gave Invesco Mortgage Capital an outperform vote.
Invesco Mortgage Capital has a net margin of -2.96% compared to Invesco Mortgage Capital's net margin of -54.60%. Ares Commercial Real Estate's return on equity of 62.02% beat Invesco Mortgage Capital's return on equity.
Ares Commercial Real Estate pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.7%. Invesco Mortgage Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.0%. Ares Commercial Real Estate pays out -120.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Invesco Mortgage Capital pays out -228.6% 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 higher revenue and earnings than Ares Commercial Real Estate. Invesco Mortgage Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ares Commercial Real Estate, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Invesco Mortgage Capital beats Ares Commercial Real Estate on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding IVR and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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