Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance Inc (NYSE: ARI) is -5.74% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $7.70 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 $9.94 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.07%.
Currently trading at $9.87, the stock is 0.05% and 0.52% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.71 million and changing -0.70% at the moment leaves the stock 5.76% off its SMA200. ARI registered 13.97% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 11.78%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $9.7926 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $9.3272.
The stock witnessed a 0.82% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 18.35%, and is -1.89% 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 1.50% over the week and 1.63% over the month.
Fwd P/E is 9.61. Profit margin for the company is -0.65%. Distance from 52-week low is 28.18% and -10.53% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (-0.06%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 93.65% this year
325.0 institutions hold shares in Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance Inc (ARI), with institutional investors hold 68.22% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 138.87M, and float is at 137.40M with Short Float at 2.33%. Institutions hold 67.76% 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 10.9812 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 Jun 16 ’25 at a price of $9.83 per share for a total of $0.51 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 0.33 million shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Apr 29 ’25, BIDERMAN MARK C (Director) disposed off 10,000 shares at an average price of $9.48 for $94800.0. The insider now directly holds 60,787 shares of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance Inc (ARI).
