Realty Income (NYSE:O) & Alpine Income Property Trust (NYSE:PINE) Head to Head Comparison

Alpine Income Property Trust (NYSE:PINE) and Realty Income (NYSE:O) are both real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.

Dividends

Alpine Income Property Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. Realty Income pays an annual dividend of $3.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. 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 238.0% 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 increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Realty Income has increased its dividend for 31 consecutive years.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Alpine Income Property Trust and Realty Income”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Alpine Income Property Trust	$60.53 million	5.21	-$2.66 million	$0.19	92.57
Realty Income	$5.75 billion	8.86	$1.06 billion	$1.37	39.28

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.

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%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Alpine Income Property Trust and Realty Income, as reported by MarketBeat.

	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 currently has a consensus price target of $21.50, suggesting a potential upside of 22.24%. Realty Income has a consensus price target of $65.87, suggesting a potential upside of 22.40%. Given Realty Income’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Realty Income is more favorable than Alpine Income Property Trust.

Volatility and Risk

Alpine Income Property Trust has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Realty Income has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

60.5% of Alpine Income Property Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.8% of Realty Income shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Alpine Income Property Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Realty Income shares are owned by company 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.

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).