CIM vs. ARI, TWO, RC, PMT, ARR, MFA, DX, RWT, NYMT, and IVR
Should you be buying Chimera Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chimera Investment include Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), Ready Capital (RC), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), MFA Financial (MFA), Dynex Capital (DX), Redwood Trust (RWT), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), and Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
Chimera Investment vs.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) and Chimera Investment (NYSE:CIM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.74, meaning that its share price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chimera Investment has a beta of 1.7, meaning that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance had 10 more articles in the media than Chimera Investment. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance and 2 mentions for Chimera Investment. Chimera Investment's average media sentiment score of 1.66 beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's score of -0.16 indicating that Chimera Investment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance presently has a consensus target price of $9.31, indicating a potential upside of 3.19%. Chimera Investment has a consensus target price of $16.00, indicating a potential upside of 11.85%. Given Chimera Investment's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Chimera Investment is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
Chimera Investment received 90 more outperform votes than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.00% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote while only 57.77% of users gave Chimera Investment an outperform vote.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.1%. Chimera Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.3%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -108.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Chimera Investment pays out 44.8% 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. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.4% of Chimera Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Chimera Investment shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Chimera Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chimera Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Chimera Investment has a net margin of 46.48% compared to Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's net margin of -35.84%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity of 9.11% beat Chimera Investment's return on equity.
Summary
Chimera Investment beats Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:CIM) was last updated on 1/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
