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Starwood Property Trust (STWD) Competitors

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$20.07 +0.04 (+0.17%)
Closing price 09/23/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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$20.10 +0.04 (+0.20%)
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STWD vs. ACRE, ARI, BXMT, CIM, EFC, KREF, LADR, MFA, NLY, and RITM

Should you be buying Starwood Property Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Starwood Property Trust include Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Blackstone Mortgage Trust (BXMT), Chimera Investment (CIM), Ellington Financial (EFC), KKR Real Estate Finance Trust (KREF), Ladder Capital (LADR), MFA Financial (MFA), Annaly Capital Management (NLY), and Rithm Capital (RITM). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Starwood Property Trust vs. Its Competitors

Starwood Property Trust (NYSE:STWD) and Ares Commercial Real Estate (NYSE:ACRE) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability and earnings.

Starwood Property Trust has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ares Commercial Real Estate has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Starwood Property 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 Starwood Property Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Starwood Property Trust$1.95B3.78$359.93M$1.0918.41
Ares Commercial Real Estate$69.65M3.77-$34.99M-$0.34-14.04

49.8% of Starwood Property Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.3% of Ares Commercial Real Estate shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.9% of Starwood Property Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Ares Commercial Real Estate shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Starwood Property Trust has a net margin of 20.58% compared to Ares Commercial Real Estate's net margin of -29.57%. Starwood Property Trust's return on equity of 8.72% beat Ares Commercial Real Estate's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Starwood Property Trust20.58% 8.72% 0.94%
Ares Commercial Real Estate -29.57%-5.44%-1.78%

Starwood Property Trust presently has a consensus target price of $21.13, indicating a potential upside of 5.28%. Ares Commercial Real Estate has a consensus target price of $4.75, indicating a potential downside of 0.52%. Given Starwood Property Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Starwood Property Trust is more favorable than Ares Commercial Real Estate.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Starwood Property Trust
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75
Ares Commercial Real Estate
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

In the previous week, Starwood Property Trust had 6 more articles in the media than Ares Commercial Real Estate. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Starwood Property Trust and 2 mentions for Ares Commercial Real Estate. Starwood Property Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Ares Commercial Real Estate's score of 1.05 indicating that Starwood Property Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Starwood Property Trust
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Ares Commercial Real Estate
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Starwood Property Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.6%. Ares Commercial Real Estate pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.6%. Starwood Property Trust pays out 176.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ares Commercial Real Estate pays out -176.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ares Commercial Real Estate is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

Starwood Property Trust beats Ares Commercial Real Estate on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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STWD vs. The Competition

MetricStarwood Property TrustREIT IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$7.35B$1.51B$12.68B$21.71B
Dividend Yield9.59%12.97%5.44%3.52%
P/E Ratio18.4114.40241.2529.86
Price / Sales3.783.3530.9762.16
Price / Cash10.0911.1522.8824.72
Price / Book1.000.772.314.59
Net Income$359.93M$79.73M$1.01B$1.00B
7 Day Performance-1.01%-0.97%0.42%0.64%
1 Month Performance-0.88%-0.66%1.67%2.77%
1 Year Performance-4.09%-13.23%540.39%14.49%

Starwood Property Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
STWD
Starwood Property Trust
3.8802 of 5 stars
$20.07
+0.2%
$21.13
+5.3%
-3.8%$7.35B$1.95B18.41290Positive News
ACRE
Ares Commercial Real Estate
3.125 of 5 stars
$4.84
+0.1%
$5.31
+9.9%
-34.7%$265.68M$69.65M-14.223,200Positive News
ARI
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance
2.3099 of 5 stars
$10.77
-0.6%
$10.31
-4.2%
+8.9%$1.51B$303.67M-76.93N/A
BXMT
Blackstone Mortgage Trust
2.8039 of 5 stars
$19.52
0.0%
$20.00
+2.5%
-5.2%$3.35B$1.77B-278.79N/A
CIM
Chimera Investment
4.114 of 5 stars
$14.21
+0.2%
$15.50
+9.1%
-16.5%$1.15B$760.95M11.2740Dividend Announcement
EFC
Ellington Financial
3.5782 of 5 stars
$13.42
-0.1%
$14.46
+7.7%
+0.1%$1.34B$136.41M10.82170
KREF
KKR Real Estate Finance Trust
3.8949 of 5 stars
$9.49
-1.0%
$11.95
+25.9%
-25.1%$629.83M$564.63M-14.38N/APositive News
LADR
Ladder Capital
4.7199 of 5 stars
$11.48
-1.2%
$12.00
+4.5%
-6.3%$1.48B$506.84M16.4060Positive News
MFA
MFA Financial
4.1268 of 5 stars
$10.12
+0.0%
$12.14
+20.0%
-25.1%$1.04B$723.97M11.63350
NLY
Annaly Capital Management
3.5019 of 5 stars
$22.06
+0.3%
$21.06
-4.6%
+3.2%$14.13B$945.06M21.84160Positive News
Options Volume
RITM
Rithm Capital
4.5685 of 5 stars
$12.38
flat
$14.25
+15.1%
-0.1%$6.57B$5.21B9.526,045Dividend Announcement

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