ARR vs. ARI, TWO, PMT, DX, MFA, CIM, RC, RWT, NYMT, and IVR
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), Dynex Capital (DX), MFA Financial (MFA), Chimera Investment (CIM), 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.
ARMOUR Residential REIT vs.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) and ARMOUR Residential REIT (NYSE:ARR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
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, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance had 1 more articles in the media than ARMOUR Residential REIT. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance and 7 mentions for ARMOUR Residential REIT. ARMOUR Residential REIT's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's score of 0.59 indicating that ARMOUR Residential REIT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ARMOUR Residential REIT has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
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.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance received 56 more outperform votes than ARMOUR Residential REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.55% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote while only 49.07% of users gave ARMOUR Residential REIT an outperform vote.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance currently has a consensus target price of $9.50, suggesting a potential upside of 13.70%. ARMOUR Residential REIT has a consensus target price of $20.50, suggesting a potential upside of 43.91%. Given ARMOUR Residential REIT's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ARMOUR Residential REIT is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
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.
Summary
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance beats ARMOUR Residential REIT on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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