AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT) Competitors

AG Mortgage Investment Trust (NYSE:MITT) and Redwood Trust (NYSE:RWT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.

Do insiders & institutionals believe in MITT or RWT?

27.3% of AG Mortgage Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.3% of Redwood Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 3.8% of AG Mortgage Investment Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Redwood Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is MITT or RWT more profitable?

AG Mortgage Investment Trust has a net margin of 20.19% compared to Redwood Trust's net margin of 9.35%. AG Mortgage Investment Trust's return on equity of 9.70% beat Redwood Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
AG Mortgage Investment Trust	20.19%	9.70%	0.46%
Redwood Trust	9.35%	6.91%	0.47%

Is MITT or RWT a better dividend stock?

AG Mortgage Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.8%. Redwood Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.4%. AG Mortgage Investment Trust pays out 89.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Redwood Trust pays out 327.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. AG Mortgage Investment Trust has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Redwood Trust has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.

Do analysts rate MITT or RWT?

AG Mortgage Investment Trust currently has a consensus target price of $8.20, suggesting a potential upside of 10.36%. Redwood Trust has a consensus target price of $7.44, suggesting a potential upside of 27.91%. Given Redwood Trust's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Redwood Trust is more favorable than AG Mortgage Investment Trust.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
AG Mortgage Investment Trust	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.80
Redwood Trust	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, MITT or RWT?

Redwood Trust has higher revenue and earnings than AG Mortgage Investment Trust. AG Mortgage Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Redwood Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
AG Mortgage Investment Trust	$67.63M	3.26	$53.78M	$0.89	8.35
Redwood Trust	$256.21M	3.02	$54M	$0.22	26.45

Does the media favor MITT or RWT?

In the previous week, Redwood Trust had 3 more articles in the media than AG Mortgage Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Redwood Trust and 1 mentions for AG Mortgage Investment Trust. Redwood Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.31 beat AG Mortgage Investment Trust's score of 0.91 indicating that Redwood Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
AG Mortgage Investment Trust	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Redwood Trust	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community favor MITT or RWT?

Redwood Trust received 105 more outperform votes than AG Mortgage Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.89% of users gave Redwood Trust an outperform vote while only 64.53% of users gave AG Mortgage Investment Trust an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
AG Mortgage Investment Trust	Outperform Votes 322 64.53%	Underperform Votes 177 35.47%
Redwood Trust	Outperform Votes 427 64.89%	Underperform Votes 231 35.11%

Which has more risk & volatility, MITT or RWT?

AG Mortgage Investment Trust has a beta of 1.55, meaning that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Redwood Trust has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Redwood Trust beats AG Mortgage Investment Trust on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.