MFA vs. ARI, RC, TWO, PMT, CIM, ARR, RWT, DX, NYMT, and IVR
Should you be buying MFA Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MFA Financial include Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Ready Capital (RC), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), Chimera Investment (CIM), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Redwood Trust (RWT), Dynex Capital (DX), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), and Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
MFA Financial (NYSE:MFA) 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, dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, MFA Financial had 1 more articles in the media than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for MFA Financial and 2 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat MFA Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MFA Financial received 37 more outperform votes than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.86% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote while only 57.98% of users gave MFA Financial an outperform vote.
MFA Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.2%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.9%. MFA Financial pays out -1,749.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -179.5% 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.
MFA Financial has a net margin of 4.70% compared to Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's net margin of -28.20%. MFA Financial's return on equity of 9.66% beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity.
MFA Financial presently has a consensus target price of $12.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.25%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a consensus target price of $10.38, indicating a potential upside of 2.52%. Given MFA Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe MFA Financial is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
65.3% of MFA Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of MFA Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are held 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.
MFA Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. MFA Financial 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.
MFA Financial has a beta of 2.1, indicating that its stock price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.69, indicating that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
MFA Financial beats Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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