ACRE vs. CIM, MFA, RWT, RC, NYMT, IVR, MITT, NLY, AGNC, and STWD
Should you be buying Ares Commercial Real Estate stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ares Commercial Real Estate include Chimera Investment (CIM), MFA Financial (MFA), Redwood Trust (RWT), Ready Capital (RC), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR), AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT), Annaly Capital Management (NLY), AGNC Investment (AGNC), and Starwood Property Trust (STWD). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
Ares Commercial Real Estate vs.
Chimera Investment (NYSE:CIM) and Ares Commercial Real Estate (NYSE:ACRE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Chimera Investment has a beta of 1.76, meaning that its share price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ares Commercial Real Estate has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
48.4% of Chimera Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.3% of Ares Commercial Real Estate shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Chimera Investment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Ares Commercial Real Estate shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Chimera Investment presently has a consensus target price of $15.50, suggesting a potential upside of 18.59%. Ares Commercial Real Estate has a consensus target price of $5.50, suggesting a potential upside of 20.35%. Given Ares Commercial Real Estate's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ares Commercial Real Estate is more favorable than Chimera Investment.
Chimera Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.3%. Ares Commercial Real Estate pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.1%. Chimera Investment pays out 98.7% 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 -240.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Chimera Investment has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Ares Commercial Real Estate is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Chimera Investment received 96 more outperform votes than Ares Commercial Real Estate when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.01% of users gave Ares Commercial Real Estate an outperform vote while only 57.64% of users gave Chimera Investment an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Chimera Investment and Chimera Investment both had 7 articles in the media. Chimera Investment's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Ares Commercial Real Estate's score of 1.11 indicating that Chimera Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Chimera Investment has a net margin of 20.28% compared to Ares Commercial Real Estate's net margin of -50.24%. Chimera Investment's return on equity of 7.00% beat Ares Commercial Real Estate's return on equity.
Chimera Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Ares Commercial Real Estate. Ares Commercial Real Estate is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chimera Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Chimera Investment beats Ares Commercial Real Estate on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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