ACRE vs. MITT, NYMT, DX, RWT, ARR, AHH, CIM, MFA, PMT, and TWO
Should you be buying Ares Commercial Real Estate stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ares Commercial Real Estate include AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), Dynex Capital (DX), Redwood Trust (RWT), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Armada Hoffler Properties (AHH), Chimera Investment (CIM), MFA Financial (MFA), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), and Two Harbors Investment (TWO). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
AG Mortgage Investment Trust (NYSE:MITT) and Ares Commercial Real Estate (NYSE:ACRE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking and dividends.
Ares Commercial Real Estate received 4 more outperform votes than AG Mortgage Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.66% of users gave AG Mortgage Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 60.11% of users gave Ares Commercial Real Estate an outperform vote.
AG Mortgage Investment Trust currently has a consensus target price of $7.25, suggesting a potential upside of 28.32%. Ares Commercial Real Estate has a consensus target price of $8.79, suggesting a potential upside of 27.33%. Given Ares Commercial Real Estate's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe AG Mortgage Investment Trust is more favorable than Ares Commercial Real Estate.
27.3% of AG Mortgage Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.3% of Ares Commercial Real Estate shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of AG Mortgage Investment Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Ares Commercial Real Estate shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
AG Mortgage Investment 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 AG Mortgage Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AG Mortgage Investment Trust has a net margin of 20.66% compared to AG Mortgage Investment Trust's net margin of -43.30%. Ares Commercial Real Estate's return on equity of 8.64% beat AG Mortgage Investment Trust's return on equity.
AG Mortgage Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.7%. Ares Commercial Real Estate pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.5%. AG Mortgage Investment Trust pays out 45.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ares Commercial Real Estate pays out -138.9% 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. AG Mortgage Investment Trust 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.
In the previous week, AG Mortgage Investment Trust and AG Mortgage Investment Trust both had 2 articles in the media. Ares Commercial Real Estate's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat AG Mortgage Investment Trust's score of -0.33 indicating that AG Mortgage Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AG Mortgage Investment Trust has a beta of 1.98, meaning that its stock price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ares Commercial Real Estate has a beta of 1.41, meaning that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
AG Mortgage Investment Trust beats Ares Commercial Real Estate on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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