TWO vs. ARI, RC, CIM, PMT, ARR, MFA, DX, RWT, NYMT, and IVR
Should you be buying Two Harbors Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Two Harbors Investment include Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Ready Capital (RC), Chimera Investment (CIM), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), MFA Financial (MFA), 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.
Two Harbors Investment vs.
Two Harbors Investment (NYSE:TWO) and Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation and institutional ownership.
64.2% of Two Harbors Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Two Harbors Investment 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 will outperform the market over the long term.
Two Harbors Investment presently has a consensus price target of $13.71, indicating a potential upside of 14.67%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a consensus price target of $9.31, indicating a potential upside of 3.19%. Given Two Harbors Investment's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Two Harbors Investment is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a net margin of -35.84% compared to Two Harbors Investment's net margin of -87.84%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity of 9.11% beat Two Harbors Investment's return on equity.
Two Harbors Investment has a beta of 1.83, indicating that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.74, indicating that its share price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Two Harbors Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.1%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.1%. Two Harbors Investment pays out -37.3% 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.
Two Harbors Investment received 202 more outperform votes than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.31% of users gave Two Harbors Investment an outperform vote while only 57.89% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Two Harbors Investment had 3 more articles in the media than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Two Harbors Investment and 7 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Two Harbors Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's score of -0.06 indicating that Two Harbors Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Two Harbors Investment. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Two Harbors Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Two Harbors Investment beats Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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