ARR vs. STWD, TWO, ARI, DX, PMT, MFA, CIM, RWT, RC, and NYMT
Should you be buying ARMOUR Residential REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ARMOUR Residential REIT include Starwood Property Trust (STWD), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Dynex Capital (DX), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), MFA Financial (MFA), Chimera Investment (CIM), Redwood Trust (RWT), Ready Capital (RC), and New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
ARMOUR Residential REIT vs.
Starwood Property Trust (NYSE:STWD) and ARMOUR Residential REIT (NYSE:ARR) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
Starwood Property Trust has a beta of 1.68, indicating that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ARMOUR Residential REIT has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Starwood Property Trust received 176 more outperform votes than ARMOUR Residential REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.75% of users gave Starwood Property Trust an outperform vote while only 49.07% of users gave ARMOUR Residential REIT an outperform vote.
49.8% of Starwood Property Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.2% of ARMOUR Residential REIT shares are held by institutional investors. 5.4% of Starwood Property Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of ARMOUR Residential REIT shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Starwood Property Trust has a net margin of 18.82% compared to ARMOUR Residential REIT's net margin of -2.61%. ARMOUR Residential REIT's return on equity of 16.00% beat Starwood Property Trust's return on equity.
Starwood Property Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.6%. ARMOUR Residential REIT pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.5%. Starwood Property Trust pays out 174.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. ARMOUR Residential REIT pays out -669.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ARMOUR Residential REIT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Starwood Property Trust currently has a consensus price target of $22.21, suggesting a potential upside of 11.21%. ARMOUR Residential REIT has a consensus price target of $20.50, suggesting a potential upside of 10.42%. Given Starwood Property Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Starwood Property Trust is more favorable than ARMOUR Residential REIT.
In the previous week, Starwood Property Trust had 2 more articles in the media than ARMOUR Residential REIT. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Starwood Property Trust and 7 mentions for ARMOUR Residential REIT. ARMOUR Residential REIT's average media sentiment score of 1.67 beat Starwood Property Trust's score of 1.39 indicating that ARMOUR Residential REIT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Starwood Property Trust has higher revenue and earnings than ARMOUR Residential REIT. ARMOUR Residential REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Starwood Property Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Starwood Property Trust beats ARMOUR Residential REIT on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ARR) was last updated on 3/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
