Alpine Income Property Trust (NYSE:PINE – Get Free Report) and Realty Income (NYSE:O – Get Free Report) are both real estate companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Risk & Volatility
Alpine Income Property Trust has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Realty Income has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
60.5% of Alpine Income Property Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.8% of Realty Income shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Alpine Income Property Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Realty Income shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Valuation & Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Alpine Income Property Trust | $69.87 million | 4.61 | -$2.66 million | $0.19 | 94.50 |
| Realty Income | $5.97 billion | 8.58 | $1.06 billion | $1.37 | 39.54 |
Realty Income has higher revenue and earnings than Alpine Income Property Trust. Realty Income is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alpine Income Property Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent recommendations for Alpine Income Property Trust and Realty Income, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Alpine Income Property Trust | 0 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2.82 |
| Realty Income | 1 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 2.44 |
Alpine Income Property Trust presently has a consensus target price of $21.50, suggesting a potential upside of 19.74%. Realty Income has a consensus target price of $65.46, suggesting a potential upside of 20.84%. Given Realty Income’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Realty Income is more favorable than Alpine Income Property Trust.
Profitability
This table compares Alpine Income Property Trust and Realty Income’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Alpine Income Property Trust | 9.36% | 2.11% | 0.91% |
| Realty Income | 20.93% | 3.12% | 1.72% |
Dividends
Alpine Income Property Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.1%. Realty Income pays an annual dividend of $3.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Alpine Income Property Trust pays out 673.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Realty Income pays out 237.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alpine Income Property Trust has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Realty Income has raised its dividend for 31 consecutive years.
Summary
Realty Income beats Alpine Income Property Trust on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Alpine Income Property Trust
Alpine Income Property Trust, Inc. (NYSE: PINE) is a publicly traded real estate investment trust that seeks to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns and dependable cash dividends by investing in, owning and operating a portfolio of single tenant net leased properties that are predominately leased to high-quality publicly traded and credit-rated tenants.
About Realty Income
Realty Income, The Monthly Dividend Company, is an S&P 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats index. We invest in people and places to deliver dependable monthly dividends that increase over time. The company is structured as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”), and its monthly dividends are supported by the cash flow from over 15,450 real estate properties (including properties acquired in the Spirit merger in January 2024) primarily owned under long-term net lease agreements with commercial clients. To date, the company has declared 644 consecutive monthly dividends on its shares of common stock throughout its 55-year operating history and increased the dividend 123 times since Realty Income’s public listing in 1994 (NYSE: O).
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