RC vs. ARR, TWO, ARI, DX, PMT, MFA, CIM, RWT, NYMT, and IVR
Should you be buying Ready Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ready Capital include ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Dynex Capital (DX), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), MFA Financial (MFA), Chimera Investment (CIM), 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.
Ready Capital (NYSE:RC) and ARMOUR Residential REIT (NYSE:ARR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
ARMOUR Residential REIT received 20 more outperform votes than Ready Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.66% of users gave Ready Capital an outperform vote while only 49.07% of users gave ARMOUR Residential REIT an outperform vote.
Ready Capital currently has a consensus price target of $7.50, indicating a potential upside of 53.37%. ARMOUR Residential REIT has a consensus price target of $20.50, indicating a potential upside of 12.95%. Given Ready Capital's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Ready Capital is more favorable than ARMOUR Residential REIT.
ARMOUR Residential REIT has a net margin of -2.61% compared to Ready Capital's net margin of -11.65%. ARMOUR Residential REIT's return on equity of 16.00% beat Ready Capital's return on equity.
Ready Capital has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ARMOUR Residential REIT has a beta of 1.53, meaning that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ready Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.2%. ARMOUR Residential REIT pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.9%. Ready Capital pays out -18.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ARMOUR Residential REIT pays out -669.8% 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. ARMOUR Residential REIT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Ready Capital had 33 more articles in the media than ARMOUR Residential REIT. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Ready Capital and 7 mentions for ARMOUR Residential REIT. ARMOUR Residential REIT's average media sentiment score of 1.67 beat Ready Capital's score of 0.12 indicating that ARMOUR Residential REIT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
55.9% of Ready Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.2% of ARMOUR Residential REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Ready Capital 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, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ready Capital has higher revenue and earnings than ARMOUR Residential REIT. ARMOUR Residential REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ready Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ready Capital beats ARMOUR Residential REIT on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:RC) was last updated on 3/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
