ARI vs. ARR, DX, TWO, PMT, CIM, 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), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), Chimera Investment (CIM), 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.
ARMOUR Residential REIT (NYSE:ARR) and Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and institutional ownership.
ARMOUR Residential REIT has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
54.2% of ARMOUR Residential REIT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of ARMOUR Residential REIT shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
ARMOUR Residential REIT currently has a consensus target price of $20.50, suggesting a potential upside of 30.03%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a consensus target price of $10.13, suggesting a potential upside of 6.19%. Given ARMOUR Residential REIT's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe ARMOUR Residential REIT is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
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.
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 pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 18.3%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.5%. 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 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.
In the previous week, ARMOUR Residential REIT had 3 more articles in the media than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for ARMOUR Residential REIT and 5 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. ARMOUR Residential REIT's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's score of 1.26 indicating that ARMOUR Residential REIT is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance beats ARMOUR Residential REIT on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for ARI and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding {thisCompany.Symbol} and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Skip ChartMedia 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.
Skip Chart
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
This page (NYSE:ARI) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff