Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE) Competitors

Franklin Street Properties (NYSE:FSP) and Alpine Income Property Trust (NYSE:PINE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and risk.

Is FSP or PINE more profitable?

Alpine Income Property Trust has a net margin of -1.45% compared to Alpine Income Property Trust's net margin of -41.73%. Franklin Street Properties' return on equity of -0.24% beat Alpine Income Property Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Franklin Street Properties	-41.73%	-8.05%	-5.09%
Alpine Income Property Trust	-1.45%	-0.24%	-0.12%

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer FSP or PINE?

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.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Franklin Street Properties	Outperform Votes No Votes	Underperform Votes 14 100.00%
Alpine Income Property Trust	Outperform Votes 35 63.64%	Underperform Votes 20 36.36%

Do analysts prefer FSP or PINE?

Franklin Street Properties presently has a consensus price target of $2.50, suggesting a potential upside of 30.89%. Alpine Income Property Trust has a consensus price target of $18.35, suggesting a potential upside of 16.88%. Given Alpine Income Property Trust's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Franklin Street Properties is more favorable than Alpine Income Property Trust.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Franklin Street Properties	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
Alpine Income Property Trust	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Which has stronger earnings & valuation, FSP or PINE?

Alpine Income Property Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Franklin Street Properties	$145.71M	1.36	-$48.11M	-$0.56	-3.41
Alpine Income Property Trust	$45.64M	4.69	$2.92M	-$0.04	-392.50

Do institutionals and insiders have more ownership in FSP or PINE?

61.4% of Franklin Street Properties shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.5% of Alpine Income Property Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 6.2% of Franklin Street Properties shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Alpine Income Property Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more volatility and risk, FSP or PINE?

Franklin Street Properties has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alpine Income Property Trust has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media refer more to FSP or PINE?

In the previous week, Alpine Income Property Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Franklin Street Properties'average media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Franklin Street Properties	Neutral
Alpine Income Property Trust	Neutral

Is FSP or PINE a better dividend stock?

Franklin Street Properties pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Alpine Income Property Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Franklin Street Properties pays out -7.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alpine Income Property Trust pays out -2,750.0% 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 has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Alpine Income Property Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Summary

Alpine Income Property Trust beats Franklin Street Properties on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.