New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. - NYMTZ

Competitive advantage analysis · real-estate

Lender Specialized
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Ranked against 66 peers in REIT - Mortgage

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Where NYMTZ ranks in REIT - Mortgage

New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. - ranks #49 of 49 scored companies in REIT - Mortgage by moat score — the top 100%. The widest moat in the group is AGNC Investment Corp. - Deposit (AGNCM) at 73/100.

# Company Moat score Rating
41 Ellington Financial Inc. EFC 35/100 Developing
42 Sachem Capital Corp. SACH 32/100 Developing
43 Claros Mortgage Trust, Inc. CMTG 23/100 Weak
44 Ready Capital Corporation RC 18/100 Weak
45 Redwood Trust, Inc. RWT 17/100 Weak
46 New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. - NYMTL 0/100 Weak
47 New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. - NYMTM 0/100 Weak
48 New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. - NYMTN 0/100 Weak
49 New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. - NYMTZ 0/100 Weak

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How NYMTZ scores on the Lender Specialized defenses

Funding & Return Stability

Not measurable · 22% of the moat score

A lender without deposits buys all of its funding, so its first test is whether the business still earns a decent return when that funding gets dearer.

Lending Advantage

Not measurable · 18% of the moat score

Outside banking, a lending advantage usually comes from origination: a channel or a data edge that finds good borrowers more cheaply than rivals, or a niche such as subprime auto, student loans or agency mortgages where experience in underwriting and servicing is hard to copy.

Capital Strength

Not measurable · 20% of the moat score

Without deposit insurance or a central-bank backstop, equity is what keeps a lender in business when its lenders get nervous.

Cost Discipline

Not measurable · 16% of the moat score

Origination, servicing and collections are largely fixed-cost operations, so scale and automation decide how much of the spread survives to the bottom line.

Revenue Diversification

Not measurable · 14% of the moat score

A lender that earns only on the spread of one product is exposed to that product's cycle and to the market that funds it.

Risk Management

Not measurable · 10% of the moat score

Credit losses at a non-bank lender arrive late and all at once, and with borrowed funding they can turn into a liquidity problem in weeks.

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Understanding NYMTZ's moat

What is New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. -'s moat score?

New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. - (NYMTZ) scores 0 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as weak. It ranks #49 of 49 scored companies in REIT - Mortgage, the top 100%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 66 companies in REIT - Mortgage.

How does New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. - compare with other REIT - Mortgage companies?

New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. - ranks #49 of 49 scored companies in REIT - Mortgage by moat score. The widest moat in REIT - Mortgage is AGNC Investment Corp. - Deposit (AGNCM) at 73/100. The companies ranked closest are New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. - (NYMTN) at 0 just above it.

How is the moat score calculated?

Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Lender Specialized in this case, chosen because the defenses that matter to a bank are not the ones that matter to a software company. Every defense combines several financial signals, and each signal is measured as a percentile against a peer group of 66 companies in REIT - Mortgage. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. - scored with the Lender Specialized template?

Card and instalment lenders, mortgage originators and mortgage REITs make money the way a bank does, by earning more on what they lend than they pay for the money they lend, but they do not take deposits. They borrow in the debt markets instead: securitisations, warehouse lines, repo and bonds, money that has to be refinanced and repriced as rates move. The Lender template scores what decides whether such a business lasts: how well its returns hold up as funding costs change, what it lends against, how much equity stands behind the book, and whether it has been pricing credit honestly.

Which competitive defenses are measured for New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. -?

The Lender Specialized template measures 6 defenses, and NYMTZ scores: Funding & Return Stability (not measurable), Lending Advantage (not measurable), Capital Strength (not measurable), Cost Discipline (not measurable), Revenue Diversification (not measurable), Risk Management (not measurable). Each is scored independently as a percentile against peers, so a company can be strong on one and weak on another — the overall score reflects how those defenses are weighted for this industry.

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