NLY vs. AGNC, STWD, ARI, RC, TWO, PMT, MFA, CIM, ARR, and RWT
Should you be buying Annaly Capital Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Annaly Capital Management include AGNC Investment (AGNC), Starwood Property Trust (STWD), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), Ready Capital (RC), Two Harbors Investment (TWO), PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT), MFA Financial (MFA), Chimera Investment (CIM), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), and Redwood Trust (RWT). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
AGNC Investment (NASDAQ:AGNC) and Annaly Capital Management (NYSE:NLY) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
AGNC Investment has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Annaly Capital Management has a beta of 1.54, meaning that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AGNC Investment currently has a consensus target price of $9.79, indicating a potential upside of 2.04%. Annaly Capital Management has a consensus target price of $21.08, indicating a potential upside of 7.02%. Given AGNC Investment's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Annaly Capital Management is more favorable than AGNC Investment.
AGNC Investment has a net margin of 32.12% compared to AGNC Investment's net margin of -8.38%. Annaly Capital Management's return on equity of 27.14% beat AGNC Investment's return on equity.
AGNC Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.0%. Annaly Capital Management pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.2%. 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. Annaly Capital Management pays out -268.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AGNC Investment has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. AGNC Investment is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
38.3% of AGNC Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.6% of Annaly Capital Management shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of AGNC Investment shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Annaly Capital Management shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
AGNC Investment has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Annaly Capital Management. Annaly Capital Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AGNC Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, AGNC Investment had 9 more articles in the media than Annaly Capital Management. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for AGNC Investment and 1 mentions for Annaly Capital Management. Annaly Capital Management's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat AGNC Investment's score of 0.40 indicating that AGNC Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AGNC Investment received 166 more outperform votes than Annaly Capital Management when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.33% of users gave AGNC Investment an outperform vote while only 55.49% of users gave Annaly Capital Management an outperform vote.
Summary
AGNC Investment beats Annaly Capital Management on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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