AGNC vs. STWD, NLY, STAG, BRX, ADC, OHI, AIRC, RHP, FR, and EGP
Should you be buying AGNC Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AGNC Investment include Starwood Property Trust (STWD), Annaly Capital Management (NLY), STAG Industrial (STAG), Brixmor Property Group (BRX), Agree Realty (ADC), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), Apartment Income REIT (AIRC), Ryman Hospitality Properties (RHP), First Industrial Realty Trust (FR), and EastGroup Properties (EGP). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
AGNC Investment vs.
Starwood Property Trust (NYSE:STWD) and AGNC Investment (NASDAQ:AGNC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and earnings.
In the previous week, AGNC Investment had 2 more articles in the media than Starwood Property Trust. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for AGNC Investment and 6 mentions for Starwood Property Trust. Starwood Property Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat AGNC Investment's score of 0.86 indicating that Starwood Property Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Starwood Property Trust presently has a consensus target price of $25.07, indicating a potential upside of 48.79%. AGNC Investment has a consensus target price of $10.86, indicating a potential upside of 10.94%. Given Starwood Property Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Starwood Property Trust is more favorable than AGNC Investment.
Starwood Property Trust has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AGNC Investment has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
43.8% of Starwood Property Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.9% of AGNC Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 5.0% of Starwood Property Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of AGNC Investment shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
AGNC Investment received 199 more outperform votes than Starwood Property Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.84% of users gave Starwood Property Trust an outperform vote while only 62.13% of users gave AGNC Investment an outperform vote.
Starwood Property Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than AGNC Investment. AGNC Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Starwood Property Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Starwood Property Trust has a net margin of 59.50% compared to AGNC Investment's net margin of -80.24%. AGNC Investment's return on equity of 26.82% beat Starwood Property Trust's return on equity.
Starwood Property Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.4%. AGNC Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.7%. Starwood Property Trust pays out 70.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AGNC Investment pays out -56.7% 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. AGNC Investment is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Starwood Property Trust beats AGNC Investment on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding AGNC and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
AGNC Investment Competitors List
