AGNC vs. STWD, NLY, RHP, COLD, BRX, STAG, FR, ADC, AIRC, and OHI
Should you be buying AGNC Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AGNC Investment include Starwood Property Trust (STWD), Annaly Capital Management (NLY), Ryman Hospitality Properties (RHP), Americold Realty Trust (COLD), Brixmor Property Group (BRX), STAG Industrial (STAG), First Industrial Realty Trust (FR), Agree Realty (ADC), Apartment Income REIT (AIRC), and Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
AGNC Investment (NASDAQ:AGNC) and Starwood Property Trust (NYSE:STWD) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, risk and community ranking.
AGNC Investment has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Starwood Property Trust has a beta of 1.65, suggesting that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AGNC Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.4%. Starwood Property Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.8%. AGNC Investment pays out 158.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Starwood Property Trust pays out 179.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. AGNC Investment is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, AGNC Investment had 34 more articles in the media than Starwood Property Trust. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for AGNC Investment and 2 mentions for Starwood Property Trust. Starwood Property Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat AGNC Investment's score of 0.50 indicating that Starwood Property Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AGNC Investment received 205 more outperform votes than Starwood Property Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.74% of users gave Starwood Property Trust an outperform vote while only 61.33% of users gave AGNC Investment an outperform vote.
Starwood Property Trust has higher revenue and earnings than AGNC Investment. AGNC Investment 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.
AGNC Investment presently has a consensus target price of $9.79, indicating a potential upside of 4.88%. Starwood Property Trust has a consensus target price of $21.71, indicating a potential upside of 11.36%. Given Starwood Property Trust's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Starwood Property Trust is more favorable than AGNC Investment.
38.3% of AGNC Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.8% of Starwood Property Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of AGNC Investment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of Starwood Property Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
AGNC Investment has a net margin of 32.12% compared to Starwood Property Trust's net margin of 16.55%. AGNC Investment's return on equity of 27.92% beat Starwood Property Trust's return on equity.
Summary
Starwood Property Trust beats AGNC Investment on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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