ACRE vs. DX, MFA, ARR, RWT, NYMT, IVR, MITT, NLY, AGNC, and STWD
Should you be buying Ares Commercial Real Estate stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ares Commercial Real Estate include Dynex Capital (DX), MFA Financial (MFA), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Redwood Trust (RWT), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR), AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT), Annaly Capital Management (NLY), AGNC Investment (AGNC), and Starwood Property Trust (STWD). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
Ares Commercial Real Estate vs.
Dynex Capital (NYSE:DX) and Ares Commercial Real Estate (NYSE:ACRE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, risk and media sentiment.
Dynex Capital currently has a consensus target price of $13.56, indicating a potential downside of 3.57%. Ares Commercial Real Estate has a consensus target price of $6.60, indicating a potential upside of 33.20%. Given Ares Commercial Real Estate's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ares Commercial Real Estate is more favorable than Dynex Capital.
38.3% of Dynex Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.3% of Ares Commercial Real Estate shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of Dynex Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Ares Commercial Real Estate shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Dynex Capital has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ares Commercial Real Estate has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Dynex Capital had 7 more articles in the media than Ares Commercial Real Estate. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Dynex Capital and 7 mentions for Ares Commercial Real Estate. Dynex Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Ares Commercial Real Estate's score of 0.69 indicating that Dynex Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Dynex Capital has a net margin of 35.65% compared to Ares Commercial Real Estate's net margin of -50.24%. Dynex Capital's return on equity of -2.24% beat Ares Commercial Real Estate's return on equity.
Dynex Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Ares Commercial Real Estate. Ares Commercial Real Estate is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dynex Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ares Commercial Real Estate received 15 more outperform votes than Dynex Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.17% of users gave Dynex Capital an outperform vote while only 58.55% of users gave Ares Commercial Real Estate an outperform vote.
Dynex Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.8%. Ares Commercial Real Estate pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 20.2%. Dynex Capital pays out 122.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ares Commercial Real Estate pays out -153.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ares Commercial Real Estate is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Dynex Capital beats Ares Commercial Real Estate on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ACRE) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
