Views of Wall Street’s Leading Experts on ARMOUR Residential REIT Inc

With 1.95 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.76 million shares. During the session, the REIT – Mortgage company that operates in wider Real Estate sector, reached to the highest price of $19.14 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $18.835. The 52-week range on ARR shows that it touched its highest point at $21.93 and its lowest point at $17.35 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $20.17. With its current market cap of 1.05 billion, ARR has annualized dividend of $2.88 while the current yield stands at 15.24%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.48.

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 ARR was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.67%, but this was down by -0.47% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -3.13% while six-month performance fell -4.06%. The stock lost -0.32% in the past year, while it has gained 0.21% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for ARR yields 2.36 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.05. For the next quarter, that number is 0.98. This implies an EPS growth rate of -16.59% for this year and 4.33% for next year. EPS is expected to decline by -11.36% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 33.80%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 55.76 million ARR shares are outstanding with a float of 55.44 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 6.54 million, which was 1173.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Scott Jeffrey Ulm J.D. as the firm’s CEO, Vice Chairman & Head of Risk Management, Mr. Gordon Mackay Harper CPA serves as its CFO, Secretary & Controller.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.49652 of ARR’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for ARR since 6 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 3 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With ARR analysts setting a high price target of 21.0 and a low target of 19.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 20.16667. Based on these targets, ARR could surge 11.11% to reach the target high and rise by 3.17% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 6.7% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $3.88867 being high and $3.86883 being low. For ARR, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.87875.