RC vs. ARI, TWO, PMT, MFA, CIM, ARR, RWT, DX, NYMT, and ESRT
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), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), MFA Financial (MFA), Chimera Investment (CIM), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Redwood Trust (RWT), Dynex Capital (DX), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), and Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) and Ready Capital (NYSE:RC) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.0%. Ready Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.6%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out 466.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ready Capital pays out 51.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ready Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Ready Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance. Ready Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ready Capital has a net margin of 35.69% compared to Ready Capital's net margin of 16.87%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity of 7.99% beat Ready Capital's return on equity.
54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.9% of Ready Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Ready Capital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance presently has a consensus target price of $10.50, suggesting a potential downside of 2.78%. Ready Capital has a consensus target price of $10.93, suggesting a potential upside of 23.49%. Given Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ready Capital is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance received 76 more outperform votes than Ready Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.36% of users gave Ready Capital an outperform vote while only 58.96% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance had 3 more articles in the media than Ready Capital. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance and 4 mentions for Ready Capital. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Ready Capital's score of -0.41 indicating that Ready Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.67, meaning that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ready Capital has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Ready Capital beats Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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