NLY vs. AGNC, STWD, RC, ARI, TWO, PMT, CIM, MFA, ARR, and RWT
Should you be buying Annaly Capital Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Annaly Capital Management include AGNC Investment (AGNC), Starwood Property Trust (STWD), Ready Capital (RC), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), Chimera Investment (CIM), MFA Financial (MFA), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), and Redwood Trust (RWT). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
Annaly Capital Management (NYSE:NLY) and AGNC Investment (NASDAQ:AGNC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, risk and dividends.
51.6% of Annaly Capital Management shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.3% of AGNC Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Annaly Capital Management shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of AGNC Investment shares are owned 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.
AGNC Investment has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Annaly Capital Management. Annaly Capital Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AGNC Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AGNC Investment received 167 more outperform votes than Annaly Capital Management when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.46% of users gave AGNC Investment an outperform vote while only 55.57% of users gave Annaly Capital Management an outperform vote.
Annaly Capital Management pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.1%. AGNC Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.3%. Annaly Capital Management pays out -268.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AGNC Investment pays out 158.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Annaly Capital Management currently has a consensus target price of $21.25, indicating a potential upside of 7.00%. AGNC Investment has a consensus target price of $10.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.50%. Given Annaly Capital Management's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Annaly Capital Management is more favorable than AGNC Investment.
AGNC Investment has a net margin of 16.15% compared to Annaly Capital Management's net margin of -12.02%. AGNC Investment's return on equity of 26.78% beat Annaly Capital Management's return on equity.
Annaly Capital Management has a beta of 1.54, meaning that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AGNC Investment has a beta of 1.48, meaning that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, AGNC Investment had 13 more articles in the media than Annaly Capital Management. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for AGNC Investment and 15 mentions for Annaly Capital Management. Annaly Capital Management's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat AGNC Investment's score of 0.40 indicating that Annaly Capital Management is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
AGNC Investment beats Annaly Capital Management on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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