The growth track for Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance Inc (ARI) has changed recently

With 3.06 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.17 million shares. During the session, the REIT – Mortgage company that operates in wider Real Estate sector, reached to the highest price of $9.23 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $9.015. The 52-week range on ARI shows that it touched its highest point at $11.03 and its lowest point at $7.70 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $9.50. With its current market cap of 1.20 billion, ARI has annualized dividend of $1.10 while the current yield stands at 12.10%. ARI paid its most recent dividend on 1743379200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1743379200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.56.

Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of ARI was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 8.99%, but this was down by -7.81% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 2.13% while six-month performance rose 2.13%. The stock lost -12.16% in the past year, while it has gained 4.97% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for ARI yields -0.96 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.15. For the next quarter, that number is 0.23. This implies an EPS growth rate of 104.12% for this year and 31.17% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 138.17 million ARI shares are outstanding with a float of 137.26 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 3.29 million, which was 236.99998999999997 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Stuart A. Rothstein CPA as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Scott Weiner serves as its Chief Investment Officer.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.66585 of ARI’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

Analysts Ratings:

In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With ARI analysts setting a high price target of 11.0 and a low target of 8.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 9.5. Based on these targets, ARI could surge 21.01% to reach the target high and fall by -11.99% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 4.51% from current levels.

EPS: Estimates vs Actual

It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.4186 being high and $0.23482 being low. For ARI, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.34713. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.28 and the low estimate is $0.09. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.22.