MFA vs. ARI, ARR, DX, TWO, CIM, PMT, RWT, RC, NYMT, and IVR
Should you be buying MFA Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MFA Financial include Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Dynex Capital (DX), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), Chimera Investment (CIM), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), 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.
MFA Financial vs.
MFA Financial (NYSE:MFA) and Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and dividends.
MFA Financial has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance had 2 more articles in the media than MFA Financial. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance and 3 mentions for MFA Financial. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat MFA Financial's score of 0.70 indicating that Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MFA Financial presently has a consensus target price of $12.92, indicating a potential upside of 33.92%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a consensus target price of $10.13, indicating a potential upside of 0.89%. Given MFA Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe MFA Financial is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
MFA Financial received 47 more outperform votes than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.54% of users gave MFA Financial an outperform vote while only 57.17% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote.
MFA Financial has a net margin of 16.47% compared to Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's net margin of -39.40%. MFA Financial's return on equity of 9.61% beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity.
MFA Financial 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 MFA Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
65.3% of MFA Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of MFA Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
MFA Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.9%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. MFA Financial pays out 146.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -3,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MFA Financial has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. MFA Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
MFA Financial beats Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:MFA) was last updated on 6/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
