FSP vs. PINE, CIO, ONL, GPMT, MITT, NREF, BHR, ILPT, MDV, and EARN
Should you be buying Franklin Street Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Franklin Street Properties include Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE), City Office REIT (CIO), Orion Office REIT (ONL), Granite Point Mortgage Trust (GPMT), AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT), NexPoint Real Estate Finance (NREF), Braemar Hotels & Resorts (BHR), Industrial Logistics Properties Trust (ILPT), Modiv Industrial (MDV), and Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT (EARN). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Alpine Income Property Trust (NYSE:PINE) and Franklin Street Properties (NYSE:FSP) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Alpine Income Property Trust received 35 more outperform votes than Franklin Street Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.64% of users gave Alpine Income Property Trust an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Franklin Street Properties an outperform vote.
Alpine Income Property Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. Franklin Street Properties pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Alpine Income Property Trust pays out -2,750.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Franklin Street Properties pays out -8.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Alpine Income Property Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Alpine Income Property Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Franklin Street Properties. Alpine Income Property Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Franklin Street Properties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alpine Income Property Trust has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Franklin Street Properties has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Alpine Income Property Trust presently has a consensus target price of $18.35, indicating a potential upside of 22.91%. Franklin Street Properties has a consensus target price of $2.50, indicating a potential upside of 25.00%. Given Alpine Income Property Trust's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Franklin Street Properties is more favorable than Alpine Income Property Trust.
Alpine Income Property Trust has a net margin of -1.45% compared to Alpine Income Property Trust's net margin of -33.02%. Franklin Street Properties' return on equity of -0.24% beat Alpine Income Property Trust's return on equity.
60.5% of Alpine Income Property Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.4% of Franklin Street Properties shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Alpine Income Property Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.2% of Franklin Street Properties shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Alpine Income Property Trust had 3 more articles in the media than Franklin Street Properties. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Alpine Income Property Trust and 6 mentions for Franklin Street Properties. Alpine Income Property Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Franklin Street Properties' score of 0.39 indicating that Franklin Street Properties is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Alpine Income Property Trust beats Franklin Street Properties on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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