STWD vs. AGNC, NLY, STAG, BRX, FR, RHP, HR, COLD, ADC, and AIRC
Should you be buying Starwood Property Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Starwood Property Trust include AGNC Investment (AGNC), Annaly Capital Management (NLY), STAG Industrial (STAG), Brixmor Property Group (BRX), First Industrial Realty Trust (FR), Ryman Hospitality Properties (RHP), Healthcare Realty Trust (HR), Americold Realty Trust (COLD), Agree Realty (ADC), and Apartment Income REIT (AIRC). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Starwood Property Trust (NYSE:STWD) and AGNC Investment (NASDAQ:AGNC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Starwood Property Trust currently has a consensus price target of $21.88, indicating a potential upside of 5.47%. AGNC Investment has a consensus price target of $9.79, indicating a potential downside of 1.15%. Given Starwood Property Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Starwood Property Trust is more favorable than AGNC Investment.
Starwood Property Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.3%. AGNC Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.5%. Starwood Property Trust pays out 138.1% 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 received 204 more outperform votes than Starwood Property Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.79% of users gave Starwood Property Trust an outperform vote while only 61.33% of users gave AGNC Investment an outperform vote.
Starwood Property Trust has higher revenue and earnings than AGNC Investment. AGNC Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Starwood Property Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Starwood Property Trust has a beta of 1.65, meaning that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AGNC Investment has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AGNC Investment has a net margin of 32.12% compared to Starwood Property Trust's net margin of 21.20%. AGNC Investment's return on equity of 27.14% beat Starwood Property Trust's return on equity.
49.8% of Starwood Property Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.3% of AGNC Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 5.4% of Starwood Property Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of AGNC Investment shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, AGNC Investment had 3 more articles in the media than Starwood Property Trust. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for AGNC Investment and 7 mentions for Starwood Property Trust. Starwood Property Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat AGNC Investment's score of 0.64 indicating that Starwood Property Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Starwood Property Trust beats AGNC Investment on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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