RC vs. NYMT, ACRE, ARI, BXMT, EFC, LADR, MFA, NLY, RITM, and STWD
Should you be buying Ready Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ready Capital include New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Blackstone Mortgage Trust (BXMT), Ellington Financial (EFC), Ladder Capital (LADR), MFA Financial (MFA), Annaly Capital Management (NLY), Rithm Capital (RITM), and Starwood Property Trust (STWD). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Ready Capital vs. Its Competitors
Ready Capital (NYSE:RC) and New York Mortgage Trust (NASDAQ:NYMT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends and profitability.
55.9% of Ready Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.9% of New York Mortgage Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Ready Capital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of New York Mortgage Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ready Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.2%. New York Mortgage Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.5%. Ready Capital pays out -28.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. New York Mortgage Trust pays out -1,333.3% 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. New York Mortgage Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Ready Capital had 4 more articles in the media than New York Mortgage Trust. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Ready Capital and 4 mentions for New York Mortgage Trust. New York Mortgage Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat Ready Capital's score of 0.66 indicating that New York Mortgage Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ready Capital has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New York Mortgage Trust has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
New York Mortgage Trust has a net margin of 8.50% compared to Ready Capital's net margin of -34.40%. Ready Capital's return on equity of 5.53% beat New York Mortgage Trust's return on equity.
New York Mortgage Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Ready Capital. New York Mortgage Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ready Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ready Capital presently has a consensus target price of $7.04, suggesting a potential upside of 58.42%. New York Mortgage Trust has a consensus target price of $7.56, suggesting a potential upside of 8.89%. Given Ready Capital's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Ready Capital is more favorable than New York Mortgage Trust.
Summary
New York Mortgage Trust beats Ready Capital on 10 of the 18 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 7/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
