MFA vs. CIM, PMT, ARR, TWO, ARI, RC, DX, NYMT, IVR, and ACRE
Should you be buying MFA Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MFA Financial include Chimera Investment (CIM), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Ready Capital (RC), Dynex Capital (DX), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR), and Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
MFA Financial (NYSE:MFA) and Chimera Investment (NYSE:CIM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation and profitability.
Chimera Investment has a net margin of 16.32% compared to MFA Financial's net margin of 13.24%. MFA Financial's return on equity of 9.44% beat Chimera Investment's return on equity.
MFA Financial currently has a consensus price target of $12.00, indicating a potential upside of 11.11%. Chimera Investment has a consensus price target of $5.50, indicating a potential upside of 16.65%. Given Chimera Investment's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Chimera Investment is more favorable than MFA Financial.
65.3% of MFA Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.4% of Chimera Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of MFA Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Chimera Investment shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
MFA Financial has a beta of 2.1, meaning that its stock price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chimera Investment has a beta of 1.68, meaning that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Chimera Investment has higher revenue and earnings than MFA Financial. MFA Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chimera Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Chimera Investment received 50 more outperform votes than MFA Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.00% of users gave Chimera Investment an outperform vote while only 57.98% of users gave MFA Financial an outperform vote.
In the previous week, MFA Financial had 3 more articles in the media than Chimera Investment. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for MFA Financial and 6 mentions for Chimera Investment. MFA Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.04 beat Chimera Investment's score of 0.00 indicating that MFA Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MFA Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.0%. Chimera Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.3%. MFA Financial pays out -1,750.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Chimera Investment pays out 191.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. MFA Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
MFA Financial beats Chimera Investment on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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