ARI vs. ARR, TWO, DX, PMT, MFA, CIM, RWT, RC, 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 ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), Dynex Capital (DX), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), MFA Financial (MFA), Chimera Investment (CIM), Redwood Trust (RWT), Ready Capital (RC), 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.
ARMOUR Residential REIT (NYSE:ARR) and Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.
54.2% of ARMOUR Residential REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of ARMOUR Residential REIT shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
ARMOUR Residential REIT has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.74, indicating that its stock price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, ARMOUR Residential REIT and ARMOUR Residential REIT both had 7 articles in the media. ARMOUR Residential REIT's average media sentiment score of 1.67 beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's score of 1.26 indicating that ARMOUR Residential REIT is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance received 55 more outperform votes than ARMOUR Residential REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.48% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote while only 49.07% of users gave ARMOUR Residential REIT an outperform vote.
ARMOUR Residential REIT currently has a consensus target price of $20.50, indicating a potential upside of 12.95%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a consensus target price of $9.08, indicating a potential downside of 7.31%. Given ARMOUR Residential REIT's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe ARMOUR Residential REIT is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
ARMOUR Residential REIT has a net margin of -2.61% compared to Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's net margin of -39.40%. ARMOUR Residential REIT's return on equity of 16.00% beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity.
ARMOUR Residential REIT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. ARMOUR Residential REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ARMOUR Residential REIT pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.9%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.2%. ARMOUR Residential REIT pays out -669.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -105.3% 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. ARMOUR Residential REIT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance beats ARMOUR Residential REIT on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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