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Arbor Realty Trust (ABR) Competitors

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$11.71 -0.18 (-1.51%)
Closing price 03:59 PM Eastern
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$11.72 +0.01 (+0.09%)
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ABR vs. ACRE, ARI, BXMT, LADR, RC, STWD, LINE, GLXY, BRX, and HLNE

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), Lineage (LINE), Galaxy Digital (GLXY), Brixmor Property Group (BRX), and Hamilton Lane (HLNE). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Arbor Realty Trust vs. Its Competitors

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

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
Arbor Realty Trust$568.68M3.96$264.64M$0.9112.87
Ares Commercial Real Estate$4.91M54.28-$34.99M-$0.34-14.25

Arbor Realty Trust has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ares Commercial Real Estate has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.

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

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
Arbor Realty Trust20.75% 12.26% 2.26%
Ares Commercial Real Estate -29.57%-5.44%-1.78%

In the previous week, Arbor Realty Trust had 3 more articles in the media than Ares Commercial Real Estate. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Arbor Realty Trust and 1 mentions for Ares Commercial Real Estate. Ares Commercial Real Estate's average media sentiment score of 1.73 beat Arbor Realty Trust's score of 1.40 indicating that Ares Commercial Real Estate is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Arbor Realty Trust
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Ares Commercial Real Estate
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Arbor Realty Trust presently has a consensus price target of $12.63, indicating a potential upside of 7.81%. Ares Commercial Real Estate has a consensus price target of $5.31, indicating a potential upside of 9.65%. Given Ares Commercial Real Estate's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, 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
Arbor Realty Trust
2 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.80
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 pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.2%. Ares Commercial Real Estate pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.4%. 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 pays out -176.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ares Commercial Real Estate is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

Arbor Realty Trust beats Ares Commercial Real Estate on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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ABR vs. The Competition

MetricArbor Realty TrustREIT IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$2.25B$1.57B$12.60B$21.48B
Dividend Yield10.22%12.39%5.41%3.53%
P/E Ratio12.8714.69245.6029.70
Price / Sales3.967.1130.9751.59
Price / Cash4.7911.3622.1224.52
Price / Book0.880.792.314.58
Net Income$264.64M$79.73M$1.01B$1.00B
7 Day Performance-3.73%-0.81%1.04%0.66%
1 Month Performance-2.74%4.50%3.13%4.64%
1 Year Performance-16.36%-8.62%543.62%15.96%

Arbor Realty Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ABR
Arbor Realty Trust
1.8838 of 5 stars
$11.71
-1.5%
$12.63
+7.8%
-11.6%$2.25B$568.68M12.87630Positive News
ACRE
Ares Commercial Real Estate
3.7432 of 5 stars
$4.94
-3.8%
$5.31
+7.6%
-31.2%$271.47M$69.65M-14.513,200Positive News
ARI
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance
2.1297 of 5 stars
$10.99
+0.0%
$10.31
-6.1%
+8.0%$1.53B$303.67M-78.46N/ANews Coverage
Dividend Announcement
BXMT
Blackstone Mortgage Trust
2.964 of 5 stars
$19.92
-0.8%
$20.00
+0.4%
+7.1%$3.42B$1.77B-284.50N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
LADR
Ladder Capital
4.7256 of 5 stars
$11.75
-0.6%
$12.00
+2.2%
-1.2%$1.50B$506.84M16.7860Positive News
RC
Ready Capital
3.1731 of 5 stars
$4.38
+2.0%
$5.88
+34.3%
-45.6%$718.94M$896.97M-2.36600Positive News
STWD
Starwood Property Trust
3.5488 of 5 stars
$20.50
-0.5%
$21.70
+5.9%
+5.3%$7.52B$1.95B18.80290Positive News
LINE
Lineage
4.1597 of 5 stars
$39.97
-1.5%
$52.79
+32.1%
-48.2%$9.14B$5.32B-14.3326,000Dividend Announcement
GLXY
Galaxy Digital
3.218 of 5 stars
$24.22
+3.1%
$35.63
+47.1%
N/A$9.11BN/A0.00528News Coverage
BRX
Brixmor Property Group
4.5138 of 5 stars
$27.79
-1.5%
$30.42
+9.5%
+2.9%$8.50B$1.29B25.26500Positive News
Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
HLNE
Hamilton Lane
3.9953 of 5 stars
$148.66
+1.7%
$163.14
+9.7%
+4.2%$8.28B$712.96M28.59530

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