The Week Ahead: Are Investors Really Too Optimistic About Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance Inc (NYSE: ARI)

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance Inc (NYSE:ARI) currently has a daily average trading volume of 888.05K but it saw 646041 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 1.41B USD, the company’s current market price of $10.19 came falling about -0.49 while comparing to the previous closing price of $10.24. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $12.74 and as low as $9.14. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $10.0 while lowest mark touched by it was $10.215.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance Inc (ARI) gives us an average price of $10.30, while its current price level is -20.02% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 11.49% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $10.37 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $10.76. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.03% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 1.66%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 44.81 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

BofA Securities downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Underperform” from “Neutral” on March 04, 2024 while assigning a price target of $10.50. UBS issued its recommendations for the stock as it initiated the price target for the stock is $10.50.

Over the week, ARI’s stock price is moving -1.45% down while it is 2.31% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -13.20% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -5.21%.

Currently, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 140.60M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 0.10% and return on equity (ROE) at 0.94%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 178.46 while having a 11.22 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.80. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.71 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.64. Its return on asset (ROA) is 0.21% on average.