PMT vs. ARR, TWO, ARI, DX, MFA, CIM, RWT, RC, NYMT, and IVR
Should you be buying PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust include ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Dynex Capital (DX), MFA Financial (MFA), Chimera Investment (CIM), Redwood Trust (RWT), Ready Capital (RC), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), and Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust vs.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (NYSE:PMT) and ARMOUR Residential REIT (NYSE:ARR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership and earnings.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ARMOUR Residential REIT has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, ARMOUR Residential REIT had 3 more articles in the media than PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for ARMOUR Residential REIT and 4 mentions for PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust. ARMOUR Residential REIT's average media sentiment score of 1.67 beat PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust's score of 1.44 indicating that ARMOUR Residential REIT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust has a net margin of 48.17% compared to ARMOUR Residential REIT's net margin of -2.61%. ARMOUR Residential REIT's return on equity of 16.00% beat PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust's return on equity.
67.4% of PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.2% of ARMOUR Residential REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of ARMOUR Residential REIT shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust presently has a consensus price target of $15.20, indicating a potential upside of 3.13%. ARMOUR Residential REIT has a consensus price target of $20.50, indicating a potential upside of 10.42%. Given ARMOUR Residential REIT's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ARMOUR Residential REIT is more favorable than PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than ARMOUR Residential REIT. ARMOUR Residential REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.9%. ARMOUR Residential REIT pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.5%. PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust pays out 120.3% 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.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust received 149 more outperform votes than ARMOUR Residential REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.25% of users gave PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 49.07% of users gave ARMOUR Residential REIT an outperform vote.
Summary
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust beats ARMOUR Residential REIT on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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