ARI vs. RC, TWO, PMT, MFA, CIM, 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), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), MFA Financial (MFA), Chimera Investment (CIM), 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.
Ready Capital (NYSE:RC) and Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Ready Capital currently has a consensus price target of $10.93, suggesting a potential upside of 28.95%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a consensus price target of $10.50, suggesting a potential downside of 0.19%. Given Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ready Capital is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance received 76 more outperform votes than Ready Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.36% of users gave Ready Capital an outperform vote while only 58.96% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote.
Ready Capital has a net margin of 35.69% compared to Ready Capital's net margin of 16.87%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity of 7.99% beat Ready Capital's return on equity.
Ready Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.2%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.3%. Ready Capital pays out 51.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out 466.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ready Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Ready Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Ready Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
55.9% of Ready Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Ready Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance had 1 more articles in the media than Ready Capital. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance and 4 mentions for Ready Capital. Ready Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's score of 0.32 indicating that Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ready Capital has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.67, suggesting that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Ready Capital beats Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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