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Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE) Competitors

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$6.52 -0.05 (-0.76%)
(As of 12:14 PM ET)

ACRE vs. ARI, RC, TWO, CIM, PMT, MFA, ARR, DX, RWT, and NYMT

Should you be buying Ares Commercial Real Estate stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ares Commercial Real Estate include Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Ready Capital (RC), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), Chimera Investment (CIM), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), MFA Financial (MFA), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Dynex Capital (DX), Redwood Trust (RWT), and New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.

Ares Commercial Real Estate vs.

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) and Ares Commercial Real Estate (NYSE:ACRE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has higher revenue and earnings than Ares Commercial Real Estate. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance$201.16M6.22$58.13M-$0.92-9.85
Ares Commercial Real Estate$1.81M197.39-$38.87M-$1.18-5.56

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a net margin of -35.84% compared to Ares Commercial Real Estate's net margin of -95.81%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity of 9.11% beat Ares Commercial Real Estate's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance-35.84% 9.11% 2.01%
Ares Commercial Real Estate -95.81%-5.10%-1.44%

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.75, meaning that its share price is 75% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ares Commercial Real Estate has a beta of 1.48, meaning that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.

54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.3% of Ares Commercial Real Estate shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance 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 stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.0%. Ares Commercial Real Estate pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.2%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -108.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ares Commercial Real Estate pays out -84.7% 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.

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance presently has a consensus target price of $9.63, suggesting a potential upside of 6.24%. Ares Commercial Real Estate has a consensus target price of $7.10, suggesting a potential upside of 8.15%. Given Ares Commercial Real Estate's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ares Commercial Real Estate is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance
1 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.80
Ares Commercial Real Estate
2 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.71

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance received 4 more outperform votes than Ares Commercial Real Estate when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.10% of users gave Ares Commercial Real Estate an outperform vote while only 58.32% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Apollo Commercial Real Estate FinanceOutperform Votes
319
58.32%
Underperform Votes
228
41.68%
Ares Commercial Real EstateOutperform Votes
315
59.10%
Underperform Votes
218
40.90%

In the previous week, Ares Commercial Real Estate had 2 more articles in the media than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Ares Commercial Real Estate and 4 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Ares Commercial Real Estate's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's score of 0.75 indicating that Ares Commercial Real Estate is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Ares Commercial Real Estate
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance beats Ares Commercial Real Estate on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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ACRE vs. The Competition

MetricAres Commercial Real EstateReal estate investment trusts IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$358.07M$7.18B$10.70B$19.64B
Dividend Yield13.95%6.61%10.16%3.51%
P/E Ratio-5.5644.2735.2843.80
Price / Sales197.399.873,046.0617.47
Price / Cash7.3917.8029.8421.73
Price / Book0.572.632.785.46
Net Income-$38.87M$145.32M$1.03B$987.68M
7 Day Performance-7.92%-1.14%-1.26%-2.12%
1 Month Performance-4.86%-0.09%-0.02%1.31%
1 Year Performance-38.70%5.64%15.77%16.45%

Ares Commercial Real Estate Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ACRE
Ares Commercial Real Estate
3.5409 of 5 stars
$6.52
-0.8%
$7.10
+8.9%
-38.7%$355.61M$1.81M-5.532,800Analyst Upgrade
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
Positive News
ARI
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance
2.601 of 5 stars
$9.23
+0.8%
$9.63
+4.3%
-25.2%$1.28B$201.16M-9.96N/A
RC
Ready Capital
1.9569 of 5 stars
$7.54
+1.2%
$9.11
+20.8%
-31.3%$1.27B$81.15M-10.77350Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
TWO
Two Harbors Investment
3.1643 of 5 stars
$11.96
+1.0%
$13.71
+14.6%
-17.8%$1.24B$-255,294,000.00-2.46100News Coverage
CIM
Chimera Investment
4.3026 of 5 stars
$15.27
+1.3%
$16.00
+4.8%
-1.3%$1.23B$419.93M4.5740Positive News
PMT
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust
4.2782 of 5 stars
$13.74
+1.4%
$15.17
+10.4%
-11.5%$1.19B$429.02M9.961Dividend Announcement
Positive News
MFA
MFA Financial
3.94 of 5 stars
$10.95
+1.2%
$14.00
+27.9%
-7.9%$1.12B$605.60M6.81377Dividend Announcement
ARR
ARMOUR Residential REIT
3.7898 of 5 stars
$19.17
+0.2%
$20.50
+6.9%
-1.3%$1.07B$145.72M8.21N/A
DX
Dynex Capital
4.1333 of 5 stars
$12.75
+0.6%
$13.56
+6.4%
-0.9%$1.01B$207.52M10.0622Dividend Announcement
Positive News
RWT
Redwood Trust
4.0993 of 5 stars
$7.11
-0.3%
$8.03
+13.0%
-8.5%$940.44M$724M12.85289Dividend Increase
Positive News
NYMT
New York Mortgage Trust
2.7591 of 5 stars
$6.55
+0.6%
$7.75
+18.3%
-25.3%$593.29M$340.15M-19.6770Positive News

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This page (NYSE:ACRE) was last updated on 12/18/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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