CIM vs. CMTG, TRTX, IRS, MITT, LFT, AGNCP, AGNCO, AGNCN, AGNCM, and AGNCL
Should you be buying Chimera Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chimera Investment include Claros Mortgage Trust (CMTG), TPG RE Finance Trust (TRTX), IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (IRS), AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT), Lument Finance Trust (LFT), AGNC Investment (AGNCP), AGNC Investment (AGNCO), AGNC Investment (AGNCN), AGNC Investment (AGNCM), and AGNC Investment (AGNCL).
Chimera Investment (NYSE:CIM) and Claros Mortgage Trust (NYSE:CMTG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, valuation, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Chimera Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.5%. Claros Mortgage Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.2%. Chimera Investment pays out 191.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Claros Mortgage Trust pays out 5,002.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Chimera Investment has a net margin of 16.32% compared to Claros Mortgage Trust's net margin of 1.97%. Chimera Investment's return on equity of 7.51% beat Claros Mortgage Trust's return on equity.
48.4% of Chimera Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.5% of Claros Mortgage Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Chimera Investment shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Claros Mortgage Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Chimera Investment has a beta of 1.68, meaning that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Claros Mortgage Trust has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Chimera Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Claros Mortgage Trust. Chimera Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Claros Mortgage Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Chimera Investment and Chimera Investment both had 4 articles in the media. Chimera Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.28 beat Claros Mortgage Trust's score of 0.05 indicating that Chimera Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Chimera Investment received 401 more outperform votes than Claros Mortgage Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.00% of users gave Chimera Investment an outperform vote while only 19.23% of users gave Claros Mortgage Trust an outperform vote.
Chimera Investment currently has a consensus price target of $5.50, suggesting a potential upside of 19.31%. Claros Mortgage Trust has a consensus price target of $10.44, suggesting a potential upside of 6.94%. Given Chimera Investment's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Chimera Investment is more favorable than Claros Mortgage Trust.
Summary
Chimera Investment beats Claros Mortgage Trust on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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