CIM vs. ARI, RC, TWO, PMT, MFA, ARR, RWT, DX, NYMT, and IVR
Should you be buying Chimera Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chimera Investment include Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Ready Capital (RC), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), MFA Financial (MFA), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Redwood Trust (RWT), Dynex Capital (DX), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), and Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) and Chimera Investment (NYSE:CIM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and earnings.
In the previous week, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance had 2 more articles in the media than Chimera Investment. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance and 0 mentions for Chimera Investment. Chimera Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's score of 0.00 indicating that Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.73, indicating that its stock price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chimera Investment has a beta of 1.7, indicating that its stock price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.2%. Chimera Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.5%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -179.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Chimera 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 Chimera Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Chimera Investment has a net margin of 25.73% compared to Chimera Investment's net margin of -28.20%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity of 7.46% beat Chimera Investment's return on equity.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance currently has a consensus target price of $10.38, indicating a potential upside of 4.38%. Chimera Investment has a consensus target price of $16.50, indicating a potential upside of 43.73%. Given Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Chimera Investment is more favorable than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance.
Chimera Investment received 89 more outperform votes than Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.86% of users gave Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance an outperform vote while only 58.04% of users gave Chimera Investment an outperform vote.
54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.4% of Chimera Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Chimera Investment shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Chimera Investment beats Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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