NYMT vs. DX, IVR, ACRE, ARR, CIM, MFA, MITT, PMT, TWO, and ARI
Should you be buying New York Mortgage Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New York Mortgage Trust include Dynex Capital (DX), Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR), Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Chimera Investment (CIM), MFA Financial (MFA), AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), and Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
Dynex Capital (NYSE:DX) and New York Mortgage Trust (NASDAQ:NYMT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, profitability, dividends, earnings and media sentiment.
Dynex Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.8%. New York Mortgage Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.9%. 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. New York Mortgage Trust pays out -43.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. New York Mortgage Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
38.3% of Dynex Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.9% of New York Mortgage Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Dynex Capital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of New York Mortgage Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Dynex Capital has a net margin of 30.50% compared to Dynex Capital's net margin of -44.65%. Dynex Capital's return on equity of -2.60% beat New York Mortgage Trust's return on equity.
Dynex Capital currently has a consensus target price of $13.31, suggesting a potential upside of 8.85%. New York Mortgage Trust has a consensus target price of $9.88, suggesting a potential upside of 60.57%. Given Dynex Capital's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe New York Mortgage Trust is more favorable than Dynex Capital.
Dynex Capital has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New York Mortgage Trust has a beta of 1.91, indicating that its stock price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500.
New York Mortgage Trust received 35 more outperform votes than Dynex Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.68% of users gave Dynex Capital an outperform vote while only 56.32% of users gave New York Mortgage Trust an outperform vote.
Dynex Capital has higher earnings, but lower revenue than New York Mortgage Trust. New York Mortgage Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dynex Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, New York Mortgage Trust had 9 more articles in the media than Dynex Capital. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for New York Mortgage Trust and 2 mentions for Dynex Capital. New York Mortgage Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Dynex Capital's score of 0.33 indicating that Dynex Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
New York Mortgage Trust beats Dynex Capital on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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