CIM vs. MFA, ARR, RWT, PMT, DX, TWO, ARI, RC, NYMT, and IVR
Should you be buying Chimera Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chimera Investment include MFA Financial (MFA), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Redwood Trust (RWT), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), Dynex Capital (DX), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Ready Capital (RC), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), and Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
Chimera Investment (NYSE:CIM) and MFA Financial (NYSE:MFA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking, risk and profitability.
Chimera Investment received 51 more outperform votes than MFA Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.06% of users gave Chimera Investment an outperform vote while only 57.98% of users gave MFA Financial an outperform vote.
48.4% of Chimera Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.3% of MFA Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Chimera Investment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of MFA Financial 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.
Chimera Investment presently has a consensus target price of $5.50, indicating a potential upside of 22.49%. MFA Financial has a consensus target price of $12.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.60%. Given Chimera Investment's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Chimera Investment is more favorable than MFA Financial.
Chimera Investment has a net margin of 25.73% compared to MFA Financial's net margin of 4.70%. MFA Financial's return on equity of 9.66% beat Chimera Investment's return on equity.
Chimera Investment has higher revenue and earnings than MFA Financial. MFA Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chimera Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Chimera Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.8%. MFA Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.9%. Chimera Investment pays out 86.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. MFA Financial pays out -1,750.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. MFA Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Chimera Investment had 16 more articles in the media than MFA Financial. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Chimera Investment and 2 mentions for MFA Financial. Chimera Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat MFA Financial's score of 0.04 indicating that Chimera Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Chimera Investment has a beta of 1.68, suggesting that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MFA Financial has a beta of 2.1, suggesting that its stock price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Chimera Investment beats MFA Financial on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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