MITT vs. ACRE, NYMT, ONL, CIO, BHR, MDV, EARN, PINE, LFT, and FSP
Should you be buying AG Mortgage Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AG Mortgage Investment Trust include Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), Orion Office REIT (ONL), City Office REIT (CIO), Braemar Hotels & Resorts (BHR), Modiv Industrial (MDV), Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT (EARN), Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE), Lument Finance Trust (LFT), and Franklin Street Properties (FSP). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Ares Commercial Real Estate (NYSE:ACRE) and AG Mortgage Investment Trust (NYSE:MITT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Ares Commercial Real Estate currently has a consensus target price of $8.79, suggesting a potential upside of 29.87%. AG Mortgage Investment Trust has a consensus target price of $7.25, suggesting a potential upside of 31.70%. Given Ares Commercial Real Estate's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe AG Mortgage Investment Trust is more favorable than Ares Commercial Real Estate.
AG Mortgage Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Ares Commercial Real Estate. Ares Commercial Real Estate is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AG Mortgage Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AG Mortgage Investment Trust has a net margin of 20.66% compared to AG Mortgage Investment Trust's net margin of -43.30%. Ares Commercial Real Estate's return on equity of 8.64% beat AG Mortgage Investment Trust's return on equity.
Ares Commercial Real Estate has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AG Mortgage Investment Trust has a beta of 1.98, suggesting that its stock price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ares Commercial Real Estate pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.8%. AG Mortgage Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.1%. Ares Commercial Real Estate pays out -138.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AG Mortgage Investment Trust pays out 45.9% 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. AG Mortgage Investment Trust has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Ares Commercial Real Estate is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Ares Commercial Real Estate and Ares Commercial Real Estate both had 2 articles in the media. Ares Commercial Real Estate's average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat AG Mortgage Investment Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that AG Mortgage Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
41.3% of Ares Commercial Real Estate shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.3% of AG Mortgage Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of Ares Commercial Real Estate shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of AG Mortgage Investment Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ares Commercial Real Estate received 4 more outperform votes than AG Mortgage Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.66% of users gave AG Mortgage Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 60.11% of users gave Ares Commercial Real Estate an outperform vote.
Summary
AG Mortgage Investment Trust beats Ares Commercial Real Estate on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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