RC vs. ARI, TWO, PMT, CIM, DX, MFA, ARR, RWT, NYMT, and IVR
Should you be buying Ready Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ready Capital include Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), Chimera Investment (CIM), Dynex Capital (DX), MFA Financial (MFA), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Redwood Trust (RWT), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), and Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
Ready Capital vs.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) and Ready Capital (NYSE:RC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.
In the previous week, Ready Capital had 5 more articles in the media than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Ready Capital and 3 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Ready Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's score of 0.71 indicating that Ready Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ready Capital 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 Ready Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.9% of Ready Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Ready Capital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ready Capital has a net margin of -11.65% compared to Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's net margin of -39.40%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity of 9.37% beat Ready Capital's return on equity.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.74, meaning that its stock price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ready Capital has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance presently has a consensus price target of $9.31, suggesting a potential downside of 5.41%. Ready Capital has a consensus price target of $8.61, suggesting a potential upside of 27.99%. Given Ready Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ready Capital is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.2%. Ready Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.9%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -105.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ready Capital pays out -142.9% 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. Ready Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance received 75 more outperform votes than Ready Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.25% of users gave Ready Capital an outperform vote while only 57.58% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote.
Summary
Ready Capital beats Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:RC) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
