PMT vs. ARI, RC, TWO, MFA, CIM, ARR, RWT, DX, NYMT, and IVR
Should you be buying PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust include Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Ready Capital (RC), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), MFA Financial (MFA), 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.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (NYSE:PMT) and Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust presently has a consensus target price of $14.92, indicating a potential upside of 9.04%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a consensus target price of $10.38, indicating a potential upside of 2.72%. Given PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.7%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.9%. PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust pays out 106.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -179.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust received 89 more outperform votes than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.26% of users gave PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 58.86% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust has a net margin of 45.19% compared to Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's net margin of -28.20%. PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust's return on equity of 13.25% beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity.
In the previous week, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance had 3 more articles in the media than PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance and 1 mentions for PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust. PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.85 beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's score of 0.02 indicating that PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
67.4% of PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust 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 endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust has a beta of 1.47, suggesting that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.69, suggesting that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust beats Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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