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Redwood Trust (RWT) Competitors

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$7.27
-0.05 (-0.68%)
(As of 11/1/2024 ET)

RWT vs. MFA, ARI, CIM, TWO, PMT, RC, ARR, DX, NYMT, and IVR

Should you be buying Redwood Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Redwood Trust include MFA Financial (MFA), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Chimera Investment (CIM), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), Ready Capital (RC), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Dynex Capital (DX), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), and Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.

Redwood Trust vs.

MFA Financial (NYSE:MFA) and Redwood Trust (NYSE:RWT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and valuation.

Redwood Trust received 57 more outperform votes than MFA Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.32% of users gave Redwood Trust an outperform vote while only 58.36% of users gave MFA Financial an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
MFA FinancialOutperform Votes
363
58.36%
Underperform Votes
259
41.64%
Redwood TrustOutperform Votes
420
65.32%
Underperform Votes
223
34.68%

MFA Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.5%. Redwood Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.4%. MFA Financial pays out 241.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Redwood Trust pays out 123.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

In the previous week, Redwood Trust had 12 more articles in the media than MFA Financial. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Redwood Trust and 3 mentions for MFA Financial. Redwood Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat MFA Financial's score of -0.32 indicating that Redwood Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
MFA Financial
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Redwood Trust
12 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

MFA Financial has a beta of 2.16, meaning that its share price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Redwood Trust has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.

MFA Financial presently has a consensus price target of $13.40, indicating a potential upside of 10.02%. Redwood Trust has a consensus price target of $8.19, indicating a potential upside of 12.79%. Given Redwood Trust's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Redwood Trust is more favorable than MFA Financial.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
MFA Financial
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.80
Redwood Trust
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.78

MFA Financial has a net margin of 14.22% compared to Redwood Trust's net margin of 4.45%. MFA Financial's return on equity of 10.02% beat Redwood Trust's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
MFA Financial14.22% 10.02% 1.76%
Redwood Trust 4.45%6.02%0.45%

65.3% of MFA Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.3% of Redwood Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of MFA Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Redwood Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

MFA Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Redwood Trust. Redwood Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MFA Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
MFA Financial$229.72M5.41$80.16M$0.5821.00
Redwood Trust$193.29M4.97-$2.27M$0.5513.21

Summary

MFA Financial beats Redwood Trust on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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RWT vs. The Competition

MetricRedwood TrustReal estate investment trusts IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$960.55M$7.50B$10.43B$19.25B
Dividend Yield8.90%6.30%10.23%3.53%
P/E Ratio13.2137.9943.7943.29
Price / Sales4.979.583,386.7314.52
Price / Cash12.4118.9430.0220.89
Price / Book0.732.713.965.40
Net Income-$2.27M$145.32M$992.22M$985.39M
7 Day Performance-3.39%-1.79%-0.35%-0.71%
1 Month Performance-3.77%-3.21%0.25%-0.97%
1 Year Performance8.43%20.47%22.65%25.05%

Redwood Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
RWT
Redwood Trust
4.6776 of 5 stars
$7.27
-0.7%
$8.19
+12.7%
+14.0%$961.24M$724M13.22289Analyst Downgrade
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
MFA
MFA Financial
3.5163 of 5 stars
$12.18
-0.9%
$13.40
+10.0%
+31.0%$1.24B$229.72M21.00377Upcoming Earnings
ARI
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance
1.7968 of 5 stars
$8.79
-1.2%
$9.88
+12.4%
-13.7%$1.22B$344.59M-9.55N/ANews Coverage
High Trading Volume
CIM
Chimera Investment
4.0242 of 5 stars
$14.99
-0.8%
$16.25
+8.4%
+1.9%$1.21B$772.90M8.8140Upcoming Earnings
TWO
Two Harbors Investment
4.1927 of 5 stars
$11.41
-0.9%
$14.32
+25.6%
-6.5%$1.18B$480.36M-2.37100Earnings Report
Analyst Downgrade
News Coverage
PMT
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust
4.0812 of 5 stars
$13.39
-0.7%
$14.93
+11.5%
+2.8%$1.17B$163.44M9.851Analyst Revision
RC
Ready Capital
2.7268 of 5 stars
$6.76
-1.3%
$9.38
+38.8%
-29.0%$1.14B$121.36M-17.78350Upcoming Earnings
ARR
ARMOUR Residential REIT
3.3733 of 5 stars
$18.59
-0.9%
$19.83
+6.7%
+22.6%$1.04B$552.90M7.88N/AShort Interest ↑
DX
Dynex Capital
4.3037 of 5 stars
$12.13
-0.7%
$13.35
+10.1%
+16.5%$961.51M$207.52M9.6222News Coverage
NYMT
New York Mortgage Trust
2.9447 of 5 stars
$5.72
-0.9%
$7.75
+35.5%
-27.9%$518.12M$258.66M-17.3370News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
IVR
Invesco Mortgage Capital
1.3527 of 5 stars
$8.06
-0.1%
$9.00
+11.7%
+12.0%$441.85M$277.93M-7.68N/AUpcoming Earnings
News Coverage

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