NYMT vs. ARI, ARR, DX, TWO, PMT, CIM, MFA, RWT, RC, and IVR
Should you be buying New York Mortgage Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New York Mortgage Trust include Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Dynex Capital (DX), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), Chimera Investment (CIM), MFA Financial (MFA), Redwood Trust (RWT), Ready Capital (RC), and Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
New York Mortgage Trust vs.
New York Mortgage Trust (NASDAQ:NYMT) and Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations and profitability.
New York Mortgage Trust presently has a consensus price target of $7.83, suggesting a potential upside of 20.33%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a consensus price target of $10.13, suggesting a potential upside of 6.20%. Given New York Mortgage Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe New York Mortgage Trust is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
New York Mortgage Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.3%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.5%. New York Mortgage Trust pays out -1,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -3,333.3% 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.
New York Mortgage Trust received 14 more outperform votes than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.17% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote while only 55.25% of users gave New York Mortgage Trust an outperform vote.
New York Mortgage 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 New York Mortgage Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
54.9% of New York Mortgage Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of New York Mortgage 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 hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance had 3 more articles in the media than New York Mortgage Trust. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance and 3 mentions for New York Mortgage Trust. New York Mortgage Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.92 beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's score of 1.26 indicating that New York Mortgage Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
New York Mortgage Trust has a net margin of -15.46% compared to Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's net margin of -39.40%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity of 9.37% beat New York Mortgage Trust's return on equity.
New York Mortgage Trust has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
New York Mortgage Trust beats Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:NYMT) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff