AGNC vs. NLY, STWD, ARI, TWO, PMT, CIM, RC, DX, MFA, and ARR
Should you be buying AGNC Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AGNC Investment include Annaly Capital Management (NLY), Starwood Property Trust (STWD), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), Chimera Investment (CIM), Ready Capital (RC), Dynex Capital (DX), MFA Financial (MFA), and ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
AGNC Investment vs.
AGNC Investment (NASDAQ:AGNC) and Annaly Capital Management (NYSE:NLY) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
AGNC Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.6%. Annaly Capital Management pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.9%. AGNC Investment pays out 148.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Annaly Capital Management pays out 163.5% 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
AGNC Investment presently has a consensus target price of $10.50, suggesting a potential downside of 0.80%. Annaly Capital Management has a consensus target price of $21.44, suggesting a potential downside of 1.56%. Given AGNC Investment's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe AGNC Investment is more favorable than Annaly Capital Management.
AGNC Investment has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Annaly Capital Management has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, AGNC Investment had 4 more articles in the media than Annaly Capital Management. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for AGNC Investment and 13 mentions for Annaly Capital Management. AGNC Investment's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Annaly Capital Management's score of 1.14 indicating that AGNC Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Annaly Capital Management has higher revenue and earnings than AGNC Investment. AGNC Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Annaly Capital Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
38.3% of AGNC Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.6% of Annaly Capital Management shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of AGNC Investment shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Annaly Capital Management shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
AGNC Investment has a net margin of 29.26% compared to Annaly Capital Management's net margin of 20.70%. AGNC Investment's return on equity of 21.92% beat Annaly Capital Management's return on equity.
AGNC Investment received 164 more outperform votes than Annaly Capital Management when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.04% of users gave AGNC Investment an outperform vote while only 55.84% of users gave Annaly Capital Management an outperform vote.
Summary
AGNC Investment beats Annaly Capital Management on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:AGNC) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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