RC vs. ARI, TWO, PMT, MFA, CIM, ARR, RWT, DX, NYMT, and IVR
Should you be buying Ready Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ready Capital include Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), 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), 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 Ready Capital (NYSE:RC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
Ready Capital has a net margin of 23.81% compared to Ready Capital's net margin of -28.20%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity of 8.11% beat Ready Capital's return on equity.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance received 76 more outperform votes than Ready Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.21% of users gave Ready Capital an outperform vote while only 58.86% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote.
54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.9% of Ready Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Ready Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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, Ready Capital has a beta of 1.41, meaning that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance currently has a consensus price target of $10.38, indicating a potential downside of 1.00%. Ready Capital has a consensus price target of $10.93, indicating a potential upside of 25.47%. Given Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ready Capital is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
Ready Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ready Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.4%. Ready Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.8%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -179.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ready Capital pays out 74.5% 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.
In the previous week, Ready Capital had 2 more articles in the media than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Ready Capital and 2 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Ready Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's score of 0.50 indicating that Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Ready Capital beats Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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