MITT vs. ACRE, IVR, NYMT, DX, FSP, CIO, BHR, ONL, PINE, and GPMT
Should you be buying AG Mortgage Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AG Mortgage Investment Trust include Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), Dynex Capital (DX), Franklin Street Properties (FSP), City Office REIT (CIO), Braemar Hotels & Resorts (BHR), Orion Office REIT (ONL), Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE), and Granite Point Mortgage Trust (GPMT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Ares Commercial Real Estate (NYSE:ACRE) and AG Mortgage Investment Trust (NYSE:MITT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking and media sentiment.
Ares Commercial Real Estate currently has a consensus price target of $8.42, indicating a potential upside of 23.41%. AG Mortgage Investment Trust has a consensus price target of $7.38, indicating a potential upside of 5.81%. Given AG Mortgage Investment Trust's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Ares Commercial Real Estate is more favorable than AG Mortgage Investment Trust.
Ares Commercial Real Estate received 2 more outperform votes than AG Mortgage Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.67% of users gave AG Mortgage Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 60.00% of users gave Ares Commercial Real Estate an outperform vote.
41.3% of Ares Commercial Real Estate shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.3% of AG Mortgage Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of Ares Commercial Real Estate shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of AG Mortgage Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
AG Mortgage Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Ares Commercial Real Estate. Ares Commercial Real Estate 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.
Ares Commercial Real Estate has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AG Mortgage Investment Trust has a beta of 1.98, indicating that its stock price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, AG Mortgage Investment Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Ares Commercial Real Estate. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for AG Mortgage Investment Trust and 0 mentions for Ares Commercial Real Estate. Ares Commercial Real Estate's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat AG Mortgage Investment Trust's score of 0.44 indicating that AG Mortgage Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ares Commercial Real Estate pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.7%. AG Mortgage Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.3%. Ares Commercial Real Estate pays out -120.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AG Mortgage Investment Trust pays out 41.4% 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. AG Mortgage Investment Trust has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Ares Commercial Real Estate is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
AG Mortgage Investment Trust has a net margin of 20.84% compared to AG Mortgage Investment Trust's net margin of -54.60%. Ares Commercial Real Estate's return on equity of 10.05% beat AG Mortgage Investment Trust's return on equity.
Summary
AG Mortgage Investment Trust beats Ares Commercial Real Estate on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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