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Should you be buying ARMOUR Residential REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ARMOUR Residential REIT include Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), Chimera Investment (CIM), Ready Capital (RC), Dynex Capital (DX), MFA Financial (MFA), Redwood Trust (RWT), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), and Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
ARMOUR Residential REIT vs.
ARMOUR Residential REIT (NYSE:ARR) and Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends and analyst recommendations.
ARMOUR Residential REIT has a beta of 1.48, suggesting that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.74, suggesting that its stock price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance received 55 more outperform votes than ARMOUR Residential REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.58% 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 presently has a consensus target price of $20.50, suggesting a potential upside of 8.55%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a consensus target price of $9.31, suggesting a potential downside of 5.41%. Given ARMOUR Residential REIT's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe ARMOUR Residential REIT is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
ARMOUR Residential REIT pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.3%. 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.
ARMOUR Residential REIT has higher revenue and 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.
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.
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 stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, ARMOUR Residential REIT had 2 more articles in the media than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for ARMOUR Residential REIT and 2 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat ARMOUR Residential REIT's score of 0.35 indicating that Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
ARMOUR Residential REIT beats Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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