IVR vs. ARI, RC, TWO, PMT, MFA, CIM, ARR, RWT, DX, and NYMT
Should you be buying Invesco Mortgage Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Invesco Mortgage Capital include 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), Redwood Trust (RWT), Dynex Capital (DX), and New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT). These companies are all part of the "mortgage reits" industry.
Invesco Mortgage Capital (NYSE:IVR) and Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE:ARI) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
Invesco Mortgage Capital has a net margin of -2.96% compared to Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's net margin of -28.20%. Invesco Mortgage Capital's return on equity of 62.02% beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's return on equity.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has higher revenue and earnings than Invesco Mortgage Capital. Invesco Mortgage 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.
Invesco Mortgage Capital presently has a consensus price target of $9.25, suggesting a potential upside of 0.11%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a consensus price target of $10.38, suggesting a potential upside of 3.80%. Given Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance is more favorable than Invesco Mortgage Capital.
Invesco Mortgage Capital received 99 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 55.73% of users gave Invesco Mortgage Capital an outperform vote.
40.5% of Invesco Mortgage Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Invesco Mortgage Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Invesco Mortgage Capital and Invesco Mortgage Capital both had 3 articles in the media. Invesco Mortgage Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance's score of 0.18 indicating that Invesco Mortgage Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Invesco Mortgage Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.3%. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.0%. Invesco Mortgage Capital pays out -228.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance pays out -179.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Invesco Mortgage Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Invesco Mortgage Capital has a beta of 1.85, suggesting that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance has a beta of 1.69, suggesting that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Invesco Mortgage Capital and Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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