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$11.78 -0.09 (-0.72%)
Closing price 05/1/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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TWO vs. ARI, ARR, PMT, DX, MFA, CIM, RC, RWT, NYMT, and IVR

Should you be buying Two Harbors Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Two Harbors Investment include Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), Dynex Capital (DX), MFA Financial (MFA), Chimera Investment (CIM), Ready Capital (RC), Redwood Trust (RWT), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), and Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.

Two Harbors Investment vs.

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) and Two Harbors Investment (NYSE:TWO) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.

54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.2% of Two Harbors Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Two Harbors Investment shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Two Harbors Investment has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance currently has a consensus price target of $9.88, indicating a potential upside of 4.44%. Two Harbors Investment has a consensus price target of $13.29, indicating a potential upside of 12.73%. Given Two Harbors Investment's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Two Harbors Investment is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.40
Two Harbors Investment
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.57

Two Harbors Investment has a net margin of 66.24% 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 Two Harbors Investment's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance-39.40% 9.37% 2.03%
Two Harbors Investment 66.24%6.52%0.81%

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.6%. Two Harbors Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.3%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -3,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Two Harbors Investment pays out -352.9% 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.

Two Harbors Investment received 201 more outperform votes than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.67% of users gave Two Harbors Investment an outperform vote while only 57.27% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Apollo Commercial Real Estate FinanceOutperform Votes
323
57.27%
Underperform Votes
241
42.73%
Two Harbors InvestmentOutperform Votes
524
66.67%
Underperform Votes
262
33.33%

Two Harbors Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Two Harbors Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance$179.60M7.31-$119.64M-$0.03-315.17
Two Harbors Investment$216.08M5.67$298.17M-$0.51-23.11

In the previous week, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance had 12 more articles in the media than Two Harbors Investment. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance and 14 mentions for Two Harbors Investment. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Two Harbors Investment's score of 0.33 indicating that Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance
7 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
13 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Two Harbors Investment
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

Two Harbors Investment beats Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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TWO vs. The Competition

MetricTwo Harbors InvestmentReal estate investment trusts IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.23B$6.94B$11.10B$18.96B
Dividend Yield14.49%7.06%5.77%4.01%
P/E Ratio5.5959.3822.1032.87
Price / Sales5.678.3826.3128.03
Price / Cash11.7317.3217.6017.52
Price / Book0.811.662.674.47
Net Income$298.17M$177.71M$1.03B$1.02B
7 Day Performance0.04%1.31%0.72%0.59%
1 Month Performance-10.38%-5.62%-0.58%-3.54%
1 Year Performance-8.50%3.61%537.58%3.80%

Two Harbors Investment Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
TWO
Two Harbors Investment
4.0194 of 5 stars
$11.79
-0.7%
$13.29
+12.7%
-7.4%$1.23B$216.08M5.59100Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
ARI
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance
2.4784 of 5 stars
$8.19
-1.9%
$9.00
+9.9%
-5.4%$1.14B$195.66M-8.62N/AAnalyst Forecast
News Coverage
ARR
ARMOUR Residential REIT
3.2202 of 5 stars
$14.07
-1.6%
$20.50
+45.7%
-11.9%$1.13B$-478,000.00-32.72N/A
PMT
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust
3.1361 of 5 stars
$12.89
-0.8%
$14.83
+15.1%
-10.5%$1.12B$183.53M9.691Positive News
DX
Dynex Capital
3.0888 of 5 stars
$11.46
-1.8%
$13.33
+16.3%
+2.9%$1.10B$150.40M7.8020
MFA
MFA Financial
4.0563 of 5 stars
$8.89
-1.0%
$13.60
+53.0%
-9.1%$911.44M$252.85M10.98350Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↓
Positive News
CIM
Chimera Investment
4.6143 of 5 stars
$11.17
-1.9%
$16.00
+43.2%
-4.4%$903.91M$257.93M10.3440Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
RC
Ready Capital
3.4615 of 5 stars
$4.38
-0.2%
$7.04
+60.8%
-48.3%$752.61M$27.35M-6.26600Upcoming Earnings
RWT
Redwood Trust
4.3079 of 5 stars
$5.47
-1.3%
$7.50
+37.1%
-5.7%$727.42M$223.32M16.58300Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
NYMT
New York Mortgage Trust
3.2596 of 5 stars
$5.34
-1.7%
$7.00
+31.1%
-9.5%$483.63M$241.49M-4.6870Earnings Report
Analyst Upgrade
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
IVR
Invesco Mortgage Capital
2.8094 of 5 stars
$6.57
-1.4%
$10.00
+52.2%
-16.3%$428.84M$79.55M10.11N/AUpcoming Earnings
News Coverage

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