RC vs. ARI, ARR, DX, TWO, CIM, PMT, MFA, 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), Dynex Capital (DX), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), Chimera Investment (CIM), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), MFA Financial (MFA), 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. Its Competitors
Ready Capital (NYSE:RC) 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.
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.
Ready Capital has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its share price is 47% 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.
Ready Capital has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance received 79 more outperform votes than Ready Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.22% of users gave Ready Capital an outperform vote while only 57.17% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote.
Ready Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.1%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. Ready Capital pays out -28.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -3,333.3% 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.
Ready Capital presently has a consensus target price of $6.96, indicating a potential upside of 54.32%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a consensus target price of $10.13, indicating a potential upside of 0.75%. Given Ready Capital's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Ready Capital is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
In the previous week, Ready Capital had 4 more articles in the media than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Ready Capital and 4 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Ready Capital's score of 0.30 indicating that Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
55.9% of Ready Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Ready Capital 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.
Summary
Ready Capital and Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:RC) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
