Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI) Stock Forecast, Price & News

5 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance in the last twelve months. There are currently 5 hold ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" ARI shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in ARI, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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5 equities research analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's stock. Their ARI share price forecasts range from $10.00 to $12.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $11.10 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 9.5% from the stock's current price.
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Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's stock was trading at $10.76 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, ARI stock has decreased by 5.8% and is now trading at $10.1350.
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Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance saw a decline in short interest during the month of September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totaling 5,050,000 shares, a decline of 6.0% from the August 31st total of 5,370,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 923,600 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 5.5 days. Currently, 3.6% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, October 23rd 2023.
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Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc. (NYSE:ARI) issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, July, 26th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.35 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.26 by $0.09. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 5.94% and a net margin of 41.94%. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.38 EPS.

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, September 12th. Investors of record on Friday, September 29th will be given a dividend of $0.35 per share on Friday, October 13th. This represents a $1.40 annualized dividend and a yield of 13.81%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 28th.
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Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 13.58%. ARI has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The dividend payout ratio is 181.82%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on EPS estimates, ARI will have a dividend payout ratio of 106.87% in the coming year. This indicates that the company may not be able to sustain their current dividend.
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Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "ARI."

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One share of ARI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $10.14.

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) has a market capitalization of $1.43 billion and generates $303.64 million in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $265.23 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.77 on an earnings per share basis.

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's mailing address is 9 WEST 57TH STREET 43RD FLOOR, NEW YORK NY, 10019. The official website for the company is www.apolloreit.com. The real estate investment trust can be reached via phone at (212) 515-3200 or via email at hmginsberg@apollolp.com.