DX vs. ARI, RC, TWO, PMT, MFA, CIM, ARR, RWT, NYMT, and IVR
Should you be buying Dynex Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dynex Capital include Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Ready Capital (RC), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), MFA Financial (MFA), Chimera Investment (CIM), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Redwood Trust (RWT), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), and Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) and Dynex Capital (NYSE:DX) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has higher revenue and earnings than Dynex Capital. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dynex Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.1%. Dynex Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.3%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -179.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Dynex Capital pays out 133.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Dynex Capital has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance presently has a consensus target price of $10.38, indicating a potential upside of 4.27%. Dynex Capital has a consensus target price of $13.35, indicating a potential upside of 14.20%. Given Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Dynex Capital is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.73, meaning that its share price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dynex Capital has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Dynex Capital had 10 more articles in the media than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Dynex Capital and 3 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Dynex Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's score of 0.26 indicating that Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is being referred to more favorably in the media.
54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.3% of Dynex Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Dynex Capital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance received 19 more outperform votes than Dynex Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.76% of users gave Dynex Capital an outperform vote while only 58.86% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote.
Dynex Capital has a net margin of 30.50% compared to Dynex Capital's net margin of -28.20%. Dynex Capital's return on equity of 5.88% beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity.
Summary
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance beats Dynex Capital on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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