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Arbor Realty Trust (ABR) Competitors

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$11.80 -0.08 (-0.67%)
Closing price 03:59 PM Eastern
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ABR vs. ACRE, ARI, BXMT, LADR, RC, STWD, BRX, STEP, CTRE, and AHR

Should you be buying Arbor Realty Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arbor Realty Trust include Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Blackstone Mortgage Trust (BXMT), Ladder Capital (LADR), Ready Capital (RC), Starwood Property Trust (STWD), Brixmor Property Group (BRX), StepStone Group (STEP), CareTrust REIT (CTRE), and American Healthcare REIT (AHR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Arbor Realty Trust vs. Its Competitors

Ares Commercial Real Estate (NYSE:ACRE) and Arbor Realty Trust (NYSE:ABR) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.

41.3% of Ares Commercial Real Estate shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.3% of Arbor Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Ares Commercial Real Estate shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Arbor Realty Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Ares Commercial Real Estate currently has a consensus target price of $4.83, suggesting a potential upside of 4.62%. Arbor Realty Trust has a consensus target price of $12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.69%. Given Ares Commercial Real Estate's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Ares Commercial Real Estate is more favorable than Arbor Realty Trust.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Ares Commercial Real Estate
1 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.83
Arbor Realty Trust
2 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.86

In the previous week, Arbor Realty Trust had 13 more articles in the media than Ares Commercial Real Estate. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Arbor Realty Trust and 0 mentions for Ares Commercial Real Estate. Arbor Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Ares Commercial Real Estate's score of 0.21 indicating that Arbor Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Ares Commercial Real Estate Neutral
Arbor Realty Trust Positive

Ares Commercial Real Estate has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arbor Realty Trust has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Ares Commercial Real Estate pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.0%. Arbor Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.2%. Ares Commercial Real Estate pays out -176.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Arbor Realty Trust pays out 131.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ares Commercial Real Estate is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Arbor Realty Trust has a net margin of 20.75% compared to Ares Commercial Real Estate's net margin of -29.57%. Arbor Realty Trust's return on equity of 12.26% beat Ares Commercial Real Estate's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Ares Commercial Real Estate-29.57% -5.44% -1.78%
Arbor Realty Trust 20.75%12.26%2.26%

Arbor Realty Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Ares Commercial Real Estate. Ares Commercial Real Estate is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arbor Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Ares Commercial Real Estate$69.65M3.65-$34.99M-$0.34-13.59
Arbor Realty Trust$1.17B1.94$264.64M$0.9112.97

Summary

Arbor Realty Trust beats Ares Commercial Real Estate on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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ABR vs. The Competition

MetricArbor Realty TrustREIT IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$2.28B$1.53B$12.65B$22.00B
Dividend Yield10.10%13.11%5.57%3.60%
P/E Ratio12.9712.0921.1632.73
Price / Sales1.944.1129.8761.44
Price / Cash4.859.1522.4024.48
Price / Book0.880.782.254.67
Net Income$264.64M$83.78M$1.02B$1.02B
7 Day Performance-0.04%0.30%-0.70%0.03%
1 Month Performance-0.51%-2.47%-1.49%0.21%
1 Year Performance-21.49%-10.51%572.14%11.07%

Arbor Realty Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ABR
Arbor Realty Trust
2.1707 of 5 stars
$11.80
-0.7%
$12.00
+1.7%
-22.8%$2.28B$1.17B12.97630News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
ACRE
Ares Commercial Real Estate
2.8142 of 5 stars
$4.46
+1.1%
$4.83
+8.4%
-31.2%$245.35M$69.65M-13.123,200
ARI
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance
3.3258 of 5 stars
$9.93
+2.5%
$10.38
+4.5%
+14.0%$1.38B$303.67M-70.89N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
BXMT
Blackstone Mortgage Trust
3.4078 of 5 stars
$18.27
+1.7%
$19.63
+7.4%
-5.9%$3.13B$1.77B-260.93N/ANews Coverage
Analyst Forecast
LADR
Ladder Capital
4.8886 of 5 stars
$10.65
+2.0%
$12.00
+12.7%
-3.4%$1.36B$242.42M15.2160News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
RC
Ready Capital
3.0845 of 5 stars
$3.37
-2.2%
$5.40
+60.5%
-55.5%$552.96M$39.60M-1.82600
STWD
Starwood Property Trust
4.3974 of 5 stars
$18.73
+1.8%
$21.13
+12.8%
-8.0%$6.87B$1.95B17.18290Positive News
BRX
Brixmor Property Group
4.6887 of 5 stars
$26.85
+1.2%
$30.75
+14.5%
-3.7%$8.22B$1.33B24.41500News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
STEP
StepStone Group
3.0785 of 5 stars
$65.42
+4.0%
$69.71
+6.6%
+0.1%$7.62B$1.35B-21.241,130Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
CTRE
CareTrust REIT
0.6686 of 5 stars
$32.94
-0.8%
N/AN/A$7.18B$296.29M27.4520
AHR
American Healthcare REIT
2.9153 of 5 stars
$41.28
+1.8%
$44.11
+6.9%
+72.0%$6.96B$2.15B-187.63110News Coverage
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This page (NYSE:ABR) was last updated on 10/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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