ARI vs. ARR, DX, TWO, CIM, PMT, MFA, RWT, RC, NYMT, and IVR
Should you be buying Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance include ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Dynex Capital (DX), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), Chimera Investment (CIM), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), MFA Financial (MFA), Redwood Trust (RWT), Ready Capital (RC), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), and Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance vs. Its Competitors
ARMOUR Residential REIT (NYSE:ARR) and Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
54.2% of ARMOUR Residential REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of ARMOUR Residential REIT shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, ARMOUR Residential REIT had 1 more articles in the media than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for ARMOUR Residential REIT and 3 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. ARMOUR Residential REIT's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's score of 0.59 indicating that ARMOUR Residential REIT is being referred to more favorably in the media.
ARMOUR Residential REIT pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.0%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. ARMOUR Residential REIT pays out -822.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -3,333.3% 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.
ARMOUR Residential REIT has a net margin of -2.61% compared to Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's net margin of -39.40%. ARMOUR Residential REIT's return on equity of 16.00% beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity.
ARMOUR Residential REIT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ARMOUR Residential REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ARMOUR Residential REIT has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.48, suggesting that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance received 58 more outperform votes than ARMOUR Residential REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.17% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote while only 49.07% of users gave ARMOUR Residential REIT an outperform vote.
ARMOUR Residential REIT presently has a consensus target price of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 24.19%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a consensus target price of $10.13, suggesting a potential upside of 1.45%. Given ARMOUR Residential REIT's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe ARMOUR Residential REIT is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
Summary
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance beats ARMOUR Residential REIT on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:ARI) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
