STWD vs. NLY, AGNC, ARI, TWO, RC, CIM, PMT, ARR, MFA, and DX
Should you be buying Starwood Property Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Starwood Property Trust include Annaly Capital Management (NLY), AGNC Investment (AGNC), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), Ready Capital (RC), Chimera Investment (CIM), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), MFA Financial (MFA), and Dynex Capital (DX). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
Starwood Property Trust vs.
Annaly Capital Management (NYSE:NLY) and Starwood Property Trust (NYSE:STWD) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, community ranking and risk.
51.6% of Annaly Capital Management shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.8% of Starwood Property Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Annaly Capital Management shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Starwood Property Trust shares are held by 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.
Starwood Property Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Annaly Capital Management. Annaly Capital Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Starwood Property Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Annaly Capital Management currently has a consensus target price of $21.22, indicating a potential upside of 9.93%. Starwood Property Trust has a consensus target price of $22.19, indicating a potential upside of 14.46%. Given Starwood Property Trust's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Starwood Property Trust is more favorable than Annaly Capital Management.
Annaly Capital Management has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Starwood Property Trust has a beta of 1.69, meaning that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Annaly Capital Management pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.5%. Starwood Property Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.9%. Annaly Capital Management pays out -3,714.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Starwood Property Trust pays out 164.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Annaly Capital Management is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Starwood Property Trust had 7 more articles in the media than Annaly Capital Management. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Starwood Property Trust and 5 mentions for Annaly Capital Management. Starwood Property Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Annaly Capital Management's score of 0.43 indicating that Starwood Property Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Annaly Capital Management received 40 more outperform votes than Starwood Property Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.70% of users gave Starwood Property Trust an outperform vote while only 55.70% of users gave Annaly Capital Management an outperform vote.
Starwood Property Trust has a net margin of 18.82% compared to Annaly Capital Management's net margin of 2.59%. Annaly Capital Management's return on equity of 14.75% beat Starwood Property Trust's return on equity.
Summary
Starwood Property Trust beats Annaly Capital Management on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:STWD) was last updated on 1/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
