ARI vs. TWO, PMT, CIM, RC, DX, MFA, ARR, RWT, NYMT, and IVR
Should you be buying Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance include Two Harbors Investment (TWO), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), Chimera Investment (CIM), Ready Capital (RC), Dynex Capital (DX), MFA Financial (MFA), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Redwood Trust (RWT), 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 vs.
Two Harbors Investment (NYSE:TWO) and Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, dividends and community ranking.
Two Harbors Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.1%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.2%. Two Harbors Investment pays out 85.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -105.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Two Harbors Investment presently has a consensus price target of $13.96, suggesting a potential upside of 1.40%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a consensus price target of $9.31, suggesting a potential downside of 5.41%. Given Two Harbors Investment's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Two Harbors Investment is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
Two Harbors Investment received 203 more outperform votes than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.92% of users gave Two Harbors Investment an outperform vote while only 57.58% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote.
64.2% of Two Harbors Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Two Harbors Investment shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Two Harbors Investment has a net margin of 66.24% compared to Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's net margin of -39.40%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity of 9.37% beat Two Harbors Investment's return on equity.
Two Harbors Investment has a beta of 1.84, meaning that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.74, meaning that its stock price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Two Harbors Investment had 6 more articles in the media than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Two Harbors Investment and 3 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Two Harbors Investment's score of 0.66 indicating that Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Two Harbors Investment 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 Two Harbors Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Two Harbors Investment beats Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ARI) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff