Ready Capital Corp (NYSE:RC) Has Seen A Fall Of -49.54% This Year, Is It Still A Better Option Than Others?

In recent trading session, Ready Capital Corp (NYSE:RC) saw 0.61 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 1.50. Company’s recent per share price level of $4.39 trading at -$0.07 or -1.46% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $755.18M. That most recent trading price of RC’s stock is at a discount of -117.08% from its 52-week high price of $9.53 and is indicating a premium of 5.24% from its 52-week low price of $4.16. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 2.55 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 2.92 million if we extend that period to 3-months.

For Ready Capital Corp (RC), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 3.25. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 2 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 0 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 2 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.

Ready Capital Corp (NYSE:RC) trade information

Upright in the red during last session for losing -1.46%, in the last five days RC remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Wednesday, 04/23/25 when the stock touched $4.39 price level, adding 4.98% to its value on the day. Ready Capital Corp’s shares saw a change of -35.56% in year-to-date performance and have moved 4.64% in past 5-day. Ready Capital Corp (NYSE:RC) showed a performance of -10.31% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 27.08 million shares which calculate 6.7 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 5.5 to the stock, which implies a rise of 20.18% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 5.5 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 5.5. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -25.28% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -25.28% for stock’s current value.

In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 824.49% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 108.70%.

RC Dividends

Ready Capital Corp is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Mar-02 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 21.05%, the share has a forward dividend of 0.93 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 13.02%.

Ready Capital Corp (NYSE:RC)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 1.27% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 61.09 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 61.88%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 61.09% institutions for Ready Capital Corp that are currently holding shares of the company. BLACKROCK INC. is the top institutional holder at RC for having 26.65 million shares of worth $217.99 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 15.8007 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 10.76 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 6.3773 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $87.98 million.

On the other hand, iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 10.42 shares of worth $45.53 million or 6.06% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 5.03 shares on Dec 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $21.98 million in the company or a holder of 2.93% of company’s stock.