Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance Inc (NYSE: ARI) is -1.15% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $7.90 and a high of $11.03 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will make a comeback and enjoy potential growth. Why not look at analysts view on what the future holds for the stock. The ARI stock was last observed hovering at around $7.98 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.58%.
Currently trading at $8.56, the stock is -9.80% and -10.91% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 2.17 million and changing 7.27% at the moment leaves the stock -9.81% off its SMA200. ARI registered -19.90% loss for a year compared to 6-month gain of -2.28%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $9.6082 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $9.5466.
The stock witnessed a -12.56% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -3.28%, and is -9.70% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 7.62% over the week and 3.27% over the month.
Fwd P/E is 7.34. Profit margin for the company is -19.27%. Distance from 52-week low is 8.35% and -22.41% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (-1.86%).
with sales reaching $46.53M over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 88.64% this year, but quarterly earnings will post -6.02% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to shrink -17.90% in year-over-year returns.
311.0 institutions hold shares in Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance Inc (ARI), with institutional investors hold 67.12% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 138.17M, and float is at 137.26M with Short Float at 2.30%. Institutions hold 66.66% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is BLACKROCK INC. with over 22.67 million shares valued at $221.93 million. The investor’s holdings represent 16.1415 of the ARI Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 15.42 million shares valued at $150.98 million to account for 10.8704 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are STATE STREET CORP which holds 5.2 million shares representing 3.7027 and valued at over $52.7 million, while GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC holds 2.2854 of the shares totaling 3.21 million with a market value of $31.43 million.
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance Inc (ARI) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by ROTHSTEIN STUART, the company’s President & CEO. SEC filings show that ROTHSTEIN STUART sold 52,074 shares of the company’s common stock on Mar 17 ’25 at a price of $9.99 per share for a total of $0.52 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 0.39 million shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on May 28 ’24, Whonder Carmencita N.M. (Director) disposed off 11,400 shares at an average price of $10.21 for $0.12 million. The insider now directly holds 20,624 shares of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance Inc (ARI).
