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Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI) Competitors

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ARI vs. ARR, TWO, DX, PMT, CIM, MFA, RC, 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 ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), Dynex Capital (DX), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), Chimera Investment (CIM), MFA Financial (MFA), Ready Capital (RC), 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.

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

ARMOUR Residential REIT has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance$195.66M5.93-$119.64M-$0.95-8.79
ARMOUR Residential REIT-$478K-2,383.15-$14.39M-$0.43-33.13

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance-39.40% 9.37% 2.03%
ARMOUR Residential REIT -2.61%16.00%1.65%

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance received 57 more outperform votes than ARMOUR Residential REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.63% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote while only 49.07% of users gave ARMOUR Residential REIT an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Apollo Commercial Real Estate FinanceOutperform Votes
321
57.63%
Underperform Votes
236
42.37%
ARMOUR Residential REITOutperform Votes
264
49.07%
Underperform Votes
274
50.93%

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance presently has a consensus price target of $9.50, indicating a potential upside of 13.70%. ARMOUR Residential REIT has a consensus price target of $20.50, indicating a potential upside of 43.91%. Given ARMOUR Residential REIT's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe ARMOUR Residential REIT 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
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.25
ARMOUR Residential REIT
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.2% of ARMOUR Residential REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of ARMOUR Residential REIT shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

In the previous week, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance and Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance both had 6 articles in the media. ARMOUR Residential REIT's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's score of 0.66 indicating that ARMOUR Residential REIT 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
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
ARMOUR Residential REIT
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.0%. ARMOUR Residential REIT pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 20.2%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -105.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ARMOUR Residential REIT pays out -669.8% 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.

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ARMOUR Residential REIT has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

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

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ARI vs. The Competition

MetricApollo Commercial Real Estate FinanceReal estate investment trusts IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.16B$6.68B$10.85B$18.52B
Dividend Yield12.18%7.46%6.00%4.22%
P/E Ratio-8.7957.1521.5831.15
Price / Sales5.936.5025.4525.69
Price / Cash22.7817.3217.6117.53
Price / Book0.621.602.574.29
Net Income-$119.64M$177.71M$1.03B$1.02B
7 Day Performance-2.74%-0.90%0.14%-0.79%
1 Month Performance-16.24%-8.67%-3.46%-6.88%
1 Year Performance-19.55%4.13%534.69%1.74%

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ARI
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance
1.9829 of 5 stars
$8.36
+0.5%
$9.50
+13.7%
-21.1%$1.16B$195.66M-8.79N/AAnalyst Upgrade
ARR
ARMOUR Residential REIT
3.8066 of 5 stars
$14.42
+2.3%
$20.50
+42.2%
-20.1%$1.15B$-478,000.00-33.53N/AHigh Trading Volume
TWO
Two Harbors Investment
3.5353 of 5 stars
$10.89
+1.8%
$13.81
+26.9%
-7.3%$1.13B$510.75M5.16100
DX
Dynex Capital
3.9725 of 5 stars
$11.69
+2.6%
$13.33
+14.1%
+1.3%$1.12B$150.40M7.9520Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Announcement
Short Interest ↓
High Trading Volume
PMT
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust
3.4969 of 5 stars
$12.58
+3.2%
$15.20
+20.8%
-4.5%$1.09B$183.53M9.461Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
CIM
Chimera Investment
4.4476 of 5 stars
$11.03
+3.1%
$16.00
+45.1%
-7.9%$892.58M$257.93M10.2140
MFA
MFA Financial
3.5327 of 5 stars
$8.63
+5.6%
$13.70
+58.7%
-17.5%$884.78M$252.85M10.65350High Trading Volume
RC
Ready Capital
3.0314 of 5 stars
$4.48
+1.1%
$7.50
+67.4%
-46.9%$769.79M$27.35M-6.40600
RWT
Redwood Trust
4.0114 of 5 stars
$5.24
+2.7%
$7.83
+49.5%
-4.6%$696.83M$223.32M15.88300Positive News
NYMT
New York Mortgage Trust
3.7397 of 5 stars
$5.45
+2.3%
$7.00
+28.4%
-20.8%$493.59M$241.49M-4.7870News Coverage
IVR
Invesco Mortgage Capital
2.2644 of 5 stars
$6.47
+1.9%
$10.00
+54.6%
-20.6%$422.32M$79.55M9.95N/AShort Interest ↑
High Trading Volume
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