ARI vs. RC, TWO, CIM, PMT, MFA, ARR, RWT, DX, 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 Ready Capital (RC), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), Chimera Investment (CIM), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), MFA Financial (MFA), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Redwood Trust (RWT), Dynex Capital (DX), 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 (NYSE:ARI) and Ready Capital (NYSE:RC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and community ranking.
Ready Capital has a net margin of 23.81% compared to Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's net margin of -28.20%. Ready Capital's return on equity of 8.11% beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity.
In the previous week, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance and Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance both had 4 articles in the media. Ready Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's score of 0.40 indicating that Ready Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ready Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ready Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.76, suggesting that its stock price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ready Capital has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance received 76 more outperform votes than Ready Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.06% of users gave Ready Capital an outperform vote while only 58.64% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote.
54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.9% of Ready Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Ready Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.1%. Ready Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.9%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -179.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ready Capital pays out 74.5% 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. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance presently has a consensus price target of $10.25, suggesting a potential downside of 4.38%. Ready Capital has a consensus price target of $10.93, suggesting a potential upside of 17.26%. Given Ready Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ready Capital is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
Summary
Ready Capital beats Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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