RC vs. ARI, TWO, CIM, PMT, MFA, ARR, DX, 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), Chimera Investment (CIM), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), MFA Financial (MFA), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Dynex Capital (DX), 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 Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and dividends.
In the previous week, Ready Capital and Ready Capital both had 4 articles in the media. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.14 beat Ready Capital's score of -0.18 indicating that Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
55.9% of Ready Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Ready Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Ready Capital presently has a consensus price target of $9.04, suggesting a potential upside of 25.49%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a consensus price target of $9.63, suggesting a potential upside of 5.60%. Given Ready Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ready Capital is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
Ready Capital has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.75, indicating that its stock price is 75% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ready Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Ready Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ready Capital has a net margin of -11.65% compared to Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's net margin of -35.84%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity of 9.11% beat Ready Capital's return on equity.
Ready Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.9%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.0%. Ready Capital pays out -142.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -108.7% 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 76 more outperform votes than Ready Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.45% of users gave Ready Capital an outperform vote while only 58.32% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote.
Summary
Ready Capital beats Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:RC) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
