MITT vs. NYMT, IVR, ACRE, NLY, AGNC, STWD, TWO, ARI, CIM, and PMT
Should you be buying AG Mortgage Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AG Mortgage Investment Trust include New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR), Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), Annaly Capital Management (NLY), AGNC Investment (AGNC), Starwood Property Trust (STWD), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Chimera Investment (CIM), and PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
AG Mortgage Investment Trust vs.
AG Mortgage Investment Trust (NYSE:MITT) and New York Mortgage Trust (NASDAQ:NYMT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, community ranking, risk and valuation.
AG Mortgage Investment Trust has a net margin of 20.19% compared to New York Mortgage Trust's net margin of -15.46%. AG Mortgage Investment Trust's return on equity of 9.70% beat New York Mortgage Trust's return on equity.
AG Mortgage Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.3%. New York Mortgage Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.4%. AG Mortgage Investment Trust pays out 33.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. New York Mortgage Trust pays out -70.2% 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. New York Mortgage Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
AG Mortgage Investment Trust currently has a consensus target price of $8.25, suggesting a potential upside of 11.43%. New York Mortgage Trust has a consensus target price of $7.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.36%. Given AG Mortgage Investment Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe AG Mortgage Investment Trust is more favorable than New York Mortgage Trust.
AG Mortgage Investment Trust has a beta of 2, indicating that its share price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New York Mortgage Trust has a beta of 1.92, indicating that its share price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, New York Mortgage Trust had 11 more articles in the media than AG Mortgage Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for New York Mortgage Trust and 2 mentions for AG Mortgage Investment Trust. AG Mortgage Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat New York Mortgage Trust's score of 0.88 indicating that AG Mortgage Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
New York Mortgage Trust received 16 more outperform votes than AG Mortgage Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.57% of users gave AG Mortgage Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 55.46% of users gave New York Mortgage Trust an outperform vote.
27.3% of AG Mortgage Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.9% of New York Mortgage Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of AG Mortgage Investment Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of New York Mortgage Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
AG Mortgage Investment Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than New York Mortgage Trust. New York Mortgage Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AG Mortgage Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
AG Mortgage Investment Trust beats New York Mortgage Trust on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:MITT) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
