RC vs. ARI, ARR, TWO, PMT, DX, MFA, CIM, RWT, NYMT, and IVR
Should you be buying Ready Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ready Capital include Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), Dynex Capital (DX), MFA Financial (MFA), Chimera Investment (CIM), Redwood Trust (RWT), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), and Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
Ready Capital vs.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) and Ready Capital (NYSE:RC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and community ranking.
Ready Capital has a net margin of -11.65% compared to Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's net margin of -39.40%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity of 9.37% beat Ready Capital's return on equity.
In the previous week, Ready Capital had 20 more articles in the media than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 46 mentions for Ready Capital and 26 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Ready Capital's score of 0.09 indicating that Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance received 79 more outperform votes than Ready Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.51% of users gave Ready Capital an outperform vote while only 57.27% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote.
Ready Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ready Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.9% of Ready Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Ready Capital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.7%. Ready Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.2%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -3,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ready Capital pays out -18.9% 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.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance presently has a consensus target price of $9.88, suggesting a potential upside of 5.39%. Ready Capital has a consensus target price of $7.04, suggesting a potential upside of 57.88%. Given Ready Capital's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ready Capital is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ready Capital has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance and Ready Capital tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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